I've been a big fan of Camino for awhile. I don't like the way firefox looks on the mac and i never really got into Safari. The only issue i have with Camino is that sometimes it's just not compatible with some websites. When that happens, i switch to Safari.
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Safari 3! i love it, shame that it's still brushed metal in Tiger
get leopard, I recommend it, as much as people have been bitching about it, I do all arround media a graphics work, I have rendered film in after effects just fine, and fast, and run server scripts (complicated ones) under virtual servers on my workstation, and on a xserve running leopard server.
take the plunge man
I'm going to get it, you read that in threads were i posted, but still waiting, my dad wants it too but he's going to wait.
I love safari because it's so quick and intergrates well with the mac OSX.. but, not all web pages load good on it, that's why i'm forced to use the second best Firefox.
Pages like www.bmwusa.com. When i choose a car and then click, Build your "say 335i", i would get a blank screen after that. WTF?
Then when i go to my page of myspace, all i see is a gray background. Before i thought i put the codes wrong for my theme... Also thought something was wrong with the BMW site. ALso the BMW financial services web site, when i click pay or schedule payment, nothing happens after i click it...
So i thought there was a problem with myspace, and bmw, and bmw financial, and a couple other sites... THEN i downloaded Firefox, and myspace page loads with the theme i have, when i click build your 335i, i'm able to get the page to build it, when i go to schedule payment, i'm able to go in.
So untill those pages work on safari, i'm forced to use firefox.
I love Safari on Leopard but there is one thing that really bugs me. I hate anti-aliased "smoothed" fonts. I've set them to be disabled on fonts smaller than 144point using TinkerTool, but there are still some webpages that Safari smooths out (www.apple.com.com , www.macnn.com etc).
Why is there not a global feature to turn off smoothing in the OS, or even just in Safari?
Firefox 2 on Leopard does NOT smooth the fonts, but Camino and Firefox 3 beta do. Is this a cocoa setting that is being overridden?
Jeff
Why is there not a global feature to turn off smoothing in the OS, or even just in Safari?
Firefox 2 on Leopard does NOT smooth the fonts, but Camino and Firefox 3 beta do. Is this a cocoa setting that is being overridden?
Jeff
You will find there is no option because you are in an extreme, extreme minority.
I love safari 3 beta and it's search function (no fugly dialogue box like in Safari 2). Oh, and when dragging a tab from the tab bar it shows a preview ... nice.
Although firefox has had something similar for a while, in Mac OSX.4 I find the whole browser slow and just un-macish. (It rules on Windows though).
Although firefox has had something similar for a while, in Mac OSX.4 I find the whole browser slow and just un-macish. (It rules on Windows though).
To be honest, I switch back and forth almost daily. All the things that I want in Safari are available via plugins. I also love how it integrates with OS X and syncs wonderfully to all my machines through .mac, as well as my iphone. Unfortunately, things like safe seem to slow Safari down. If Apple would just fix tabs and enable URL shortcuts, I'd never look back.
Sadly polls like this are often put up by people who are new to the platform... any one who has been a user of Mac OS X dating back to before it was called Mac OS X can recall a time when the only browser for the platform was OmniWeb.
Oh well, I guess these days it'll just have to settle for the best browser for the platform (along with being the oldest browser on the platform).
Oh well, I guess these days it'll just have to settle for the best browser for the platform (along with being the oldest browser on the platform).
Safari.... or course, nice looking gui, very stable, dotMac syncing, scrolls nice with mighty mouse (firefox sucks with mighty mouse scrolling though).
Firefox. I use XP at work with Leopard and FC6 at home and prefer a more universal browser. The add-ons help as well (particularly GMail Manager, Noscript, BugMeNot, and Adblock/FS.G). Opera's also cross-platform and runs faster, but I'm just used to Firefox. As for Safari, I might give the new version a try sometime.
I think the whole concept of a "best" browser is wrong-headed.
I can remember using the very first browsers and have used them all on Windows and Mac ever since and I don't remember *any* significant period of time when *any* one browser was "it" on either platform.
Early Netscape browsers perhaps come closest in that when they first came out and were the only browser in town. But they used a lot of non-standard stuff, changed HTML almost every week and you still had to fire up Mosaic for a lot of pages. By the time they got good, Microsoft's IE was elbowing into the market already.
On Mac Safari is probably the best right now, but it lacks major features that some of the other browsers have, so it can't even be said to have a "full feature set." It's also much less configurable than the other browsers. Until Safari has the same popular features offered by other browsers and is more configurable, there will always be a section of the market that uses something like FireFox instead.
Additionaly, in my experience there are also always a small group of weirdos that use one of the marginal "also-ran" browsers that come and go on any platform. No matter how good Safari gets, there will always be someone who prefers Camino or Opera or one of the others even though they have nary a hope of ever getting widespread adoption due to the very quirky features that attracts the small subset of users that like them.
Safari 3 is probably the best browser available. At least under Leopard. I'll reserve judgement though until Firefox 3 is released.
I use Firefox but I'd been considering Safari, however, I really like the Google predictive text for search which isn't available for Safari.
Safari all the way, but I thought more people used Shiira (after Safari, Firefox, and Camino) than all the rest. Also, OmniWeb. *Shrug*
I'm a recent convert from firefox to Safari and ...
despite initial misgivings, I love Safari. Did a little bit of experimentation for adblock and flashblock and finally settled for SafariStand and the adblock .css file from the MIT people (forget the name)
Now my browsing is as clutter free as it was on FF AND the browser speed is fantastic.
despite initial misgivings, I love Safari. Did a little bit of experimentation for adblock and flashblock and finally settled for SafariStand and the adblock .css file from the MIT people (forget the name)
Now my browsing is as clutter free as it was on FF AND the browser speed is fantastic.