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Best Browser?

If you are one of the firefox converted...I am...

after many years of camino and safari (see my first post above) Im now back to firefox.....Well i'm not a convert..I supose i'm a reborn Firefoxer after thinking the "grass was greener over the other side"....... a few years back

anyway:


I just came accross this ad-on for firefox.

It uses thumbnails to visually remember sites visited, making it easy to find a previous webpage.

I have done a few sessions using it

Really good


http://innovation.intuit.com/blog/thumbstrips/
 
Many on this forum will tell you Safari simply because it is an Apple related forum.

In my opinion Firefox is truly the best and most versatile browser.


Ask yourself, when you have trouble viewing a webpage in Safari, where do you do?

Most will answer Firefox.


Safari brings me to many headaches.


P.S. Firefox 3 will be out very soon!
 
Why don't you try some of them out and decide for yourself?

Safari is very well integrated with OS X and doesn't require any additional downloads of other browsers; many like it very, very much

Firefox is had many add-ons that you can use to customize it for yourself, and is probably the most compatible option

Camino is like "OS X Firefox Lite," probably a little faster than Firefox but fewer add-ons; try pimpmycamino, though

Opera is a very powerful browser that I have yet to try, but it's pretty well respected

IE for Mac is terrible and no longer supported; in fact it was pretty bad on Windows, too...


Myself? Personally I use Firefox, because I like the add-ons. I used Safari for a long time, but didn't find it quite as compatible for all the websites I went to and not quite as customizable with all the add-ons Firefox offers. I wanted to like Camino, but all the available extensions and themes of Firefox pulled me back. But really, try them all and see what you like best; it's not like they're charging you for them.
 
Re: Browser Opinion

ChicagoDude said:
I am a new Mac user; just got my MacBook last week.

What is your opinion on the best browser to use on a consistent basis? I add to my bookmarks on a regular basis and would rather just update one browser. Safari, Firefox, IE?


Thanks
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:cool: Firstly, welcome to the Mac world! Also, uh, this is my very first post on this site - I'm new as well. So, my opinion may not be experienced or as accurate as others. But I can say that, personally, I use Safari (3.0 beta) for it's speed. I'm also a web designer, so I like the standards compliance.
I have been around the browser circle so many times: IE/Mac, Netscape, AOL :)confused: - worse than Microsoft!), Safari, Camino, Firefox, Shiira, OmniWeb, Opera, Flock, and Safari again. I hate that circle soooo much...

So, my two cents and empty tub of experience (as I see it) will show that the "best" browser out there is the one that was meant and made for and by Apple. Safari!:D
I went to over 10 different forums, unregistered, looking for the answer, for pages and pages on Google... The only one I can even really give is - do what works for you.

Looking up at your message, it says you add liberally to your bookmarks. First: take my advice - NOT IE! Next, it's only a matter of personal taste. Firefox is widely known as the IE/Win alternative. But seeing as we aren't PC people here, and almost no one uses IE... The only reason I see to use Firefox is if you rely on extensions, plugins, and widgets. They are not bad at all - like I said, I'm a web dev. and I use firefox when designing.
But firefox is kinduv a memory hog (compared to Safari/Camino 'course).
So, for my every day web browsing, I use Safari.:p
Regarding your Bookmarks, Safari handles them easily and wonderfully, plus it is native to the Mac OS X environment. So that's my peice.

If you do end up using :apple: Safari , there are plugins that handle bookmarks like coverflow - might be worth a try...:)
 
Re: Browser Opinion {clevin}

clevin said:
haven't use firefox 2 for a long time, but firefox 3 beta 3's memory usage is if not better, than safari's
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Really? I'm on an Intel processor, 512 RAM. I tried after clearing cookies, favicons, cache, and Safari 3 beta was maybe 2 times faster on cold startup, and 1.5 Xs faster rendering. What platform, processor, etc. are you on?
For me Firefox 3 was so buggy, slow, and crashy I just uninstalled it.
 
I use Opera 99% of the time and Safari for the rest.

One of the major reasons I use Opera is mouse gestures (I use a 2 button mouse, but mighty mouse will work-ish).

No other browser (that I'm aware of uses mouse gestures).
 
I mostly used Safari and some Firefox. Lately I have been using the Webkit nightly builds ever since the great increase just a few weeks ago. The pages render so much faster than in Safari. Not as stable, but it works for me.
 
geek-inthe-pink said:
Really? I'm on an Intel processor, 512 RAM. I tried after clearing cookies, favicons, cache, and Safari 3 beta was maybe 2 times faster on cold startup, and 1.5 Xs faster rendering. What platform, processor, etc. are you on?
For me Firefox 3 was so buggy, slow, and crashy I just uninstalled it.
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yes, really

I'm using mb with osx 10.4.11, 2G ram. firefox normally uses 90-120mb, safari 3.0.4 uses 140-160 mb

safari is faster in cold start. but how many times do u cold start broswer everyday?

firefox 3's javascript speed is (for now) 1.7x faster than safari 3.0.4, reading from cache faster than safari significantly as well.

I haven't heard anybody here at MR complain about firefox 3 being 'slow, buggy, and crash a lot' yet. but again, I don't know anybody using osx with 512mb memory neither.

512mb, IMHO, isn't enough to run tiger to its true experience (i started with tiger and 512mb memory, it can't run office in any decent speed. 3 or more apps together slows machine down significantly). and is unbearable for leopard.
 
wakerider017 said:
Many on this forum will tell you Safari simply because it is an Apple related forum.

In my opinion Firefox is truly the best and most versatile browser.


Ask yourself, when you have trouble viewing a webpage in Safari, where do you do?

Most will answer Firefox.


Safari brings me to many headaches.


P.S. Firefox 3 will be out very soon!
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Amen! Firefox is so good you'd think it was an apple app.
 
clevin said:
yes, really
I haven't heard anybody here at MR complain about firefox 3 being 'slow, buggy, and crash a lot' yet. but again, I don't know anybody using osx with 512mb memory neither.
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Eeeek! You are sooo right! I just rebooted and Firefox 3 is zipping along like no other!!! ZOMG, that is faaassttt.........:):eek::cool::p:confused::):rolleyes:
 
geek-inthe-pink said:
Eeeek! You are sooo right! I just rebooted and Firefox 3 is zipping along like no other!!! ZOMG, that is faaassttt.........:):eek::cool::p:confused::):rolleyes:
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great.
firefox is still improving, there are a 50% speed boost of javascript in just past two weeks.

be sure to try out next beta, lot of new things already.

Still, I strongly suggest you get more RAM, its so cheap now, 1G RAM would make Tiger so much more enjoyable for you.

EDIT: Oh, I see that you have a mini, I understand its very difficult to add memory to it, I did it to my mini, but man, was it hard. :(
 
You just asked the wrong question. If you knew what was good for you, you'd have just tried different browsers until you found one that suited you. You've started yet another thread dedicated to the Firefox vs. Safari debate. So uh, Firefox rocks my socks.
 
Safari... best integration with Mac OS X and best speed on everything I've used, from iMac G3s to Mac Pro Quad Xeons.
 
Safari - Nice integration, pretty fast, not terribly customizable

Camino - Would use this one IF it had the theme support and infinite choice of extensions that Firefox has.

Firefox 2 - My current browser of choice...am about to download FF3 though, cos it sounds like that one's even better :)

-Bryan
 
Thanks for all the posts. After trying Safari for a while and dealing with some crashes, I am now using Firefox and Liking it!
 
Safaristand makes safari just much much better. Safari has a lot of really stupid little annoyances, but safaristand gets rid of pretty much all my gripes.

http://hetima.com/safari/stand-e.html

2 things I like the most are the "quicksearch" thing which allows me to add any search engine and use them on highlighted words with the right click menu just like the default google search feature. The difference is being able to use different search engines like google-images, and it stays accessible regardless of the stupid changing rightclick menu thing safari does based on what is clicked (like when words in a link are highlighted and the google search option disapears).

The other thing is it opens all new windows in a new tab like allother browsers. That alone makes safari far more useable.
 
I just wrote an article about this on my blog...

Basically, the long and short of it is this:

Firefox 3 release is going to shake up the browser world once everybody updates all their add-ons. It's good. It's going to be better. But the betas are a pain to update every other week and move your 'marks around and most add-ons are bipolar. Sometimes they work perfectly and other times they complain that they're no longer compatible on a day to day basis.

Right now though... If you don't care about add-ons go with Opera. For very limited InputManager add-on functionality and a fast renderer, go with the latest Webkit nightlies (they run in a Safari shell). If you need your add-ons, stick with Firefox 2 for the moment.

Skip Safari. It's neither secure nor stable in its current iteration.
 
I used IE, then switched to FF a few years ago and finally switched to Opera once it removed the ad banners. FF offers customizability though I prefer Opera's interface, but to each his own.

Generally, avoid IE unless you can't help it. IE7 is nowhere near FF or Opera.
 
Stick with Safari.

Normally I would suggest Firefox but it is a little buggy for me on my MacBook which I got this past Thursday.

Don't forget to check out the program spaces if you havent already! :D
 
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