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Chrome. I was a Firefox fanatic (been using it since Beta) and switched to Chrome as soon as I tried it out.
 
is it just me or is safari better on the battery than firefox??
i loved firefox but im done with it, it is indeed slower and i can't watch netflix fullscreen for some reason.

chrome on the other hand needs to fix the gfx switching bug, and get their plugins act together.

so for now.. safari 5
 
Chrome. I was a Firefox fanatic (been using it since Beta) and switched to Chrome as soon as I tried it out.
THIS!

However I wish Chrome had 1Password addon capability and in Firefox you can scroll up the page with 3 fingers but in Chrome you can't do that :(

A little disappointed but yes Chrome is *&&^%#ing FAST!
 
i don't know about you guys, but ever since safari 5 came out, my safari crashes every time i open a new application while it's open. thoughts?
 
i don't know about you guys, but ever since safari 5 came out, my safari crashes every time i open a new application while it's open. thoughts?

I had a situation like this when Safari 5 came out. The first few days it froze up and made my Mac lag a lot. The issue for me seemed to be with Safari 5 & aMSN. When the two were both running at the same time, they would both freeze up and stop responding. I had to force quit both.

The situation seems to have rectified itself, though. No idea how, sorry.
 
First visit the sites and use the proper search boxes. Then go to Chrome->Preferences>
Under the Basics tab, click manage.

Now you can see all the search engines that Chrome has picked up. You can change the default one. Double click any search engine, and you can change the keyword, which is what you type before the search term to invoke the site specific search. By default it is the site address, but you can change it so something much shorter.
Good luck:)

+1 Thanks a lot. This rocks!
 
I've been peeking at the Firefox 4.0 alpha's and beta's for a while now and they're getting there. The 64 bit Mac version is blazingly fast! Extension compatibility isn't great and there are bugs (of course, since it's not final yet), but I have faith that the 4.0 release will be the best yet.

I'd been looking at alternatives lately, but having seen what's coming, I'm staying with Firefox (and all of it's extensions, Autocopy, for one, is an extension I can't live without anymore..).
 
Google this...

I have no clue where all these Google-ites are getting that Chrome is the faster/better browser. Its not even in the top 3 and is actually quite disappointing.

I would challenge anyone to find a FASTER(not necessarily BETTER) browser than OmniWeb. For basic day-to-day use, there is nothing quicker.....go ahead and download it(its free now) and find out for yourself....it simply loads pages quicker than anything else available.

Safari 5 and Camino are tied at a distant second followed by FireFox, Chrome just isn't there yet and I have all but stopped using it.....to be clear this is for SPEED, not overall quality....FireFox is still the best overall browser for MAC OS X(or for Windows for that matter).
 
and in Firefox you can scroll up the page with 3 fingers but in Chrome you can't do that :(

THIS! It is literally the only reason I'm sticking with Firefox (that, and I like having my web browser take up my entire computer screen, which Chrome and Safari don't like doing). Everything about Chrome is screaming at me to make the switch, and I'd easily get used to the not-fullscreen... but I'm NOT sacrificing my three-finger Home / End scrolling.

:(
 
THIS! It is literally the only reason I'm sticking with Firefox (that, and I like having my web browser take up my entire computer screen, which Chrome and Safari don't like doing). Everything about Chrome is screaming at me to make the switch, and I'd easily get used to the not-fullscreen... but I'm NOT sacrificing my three-finger Home / End scrolling.

:(

Both can be solved with BetterTouchTool

For the three-finger home / end scrolling do this:
http://yfrog.com/jbbttchromep

For the "entire screen" browsing do this:
http://yfrog.com/1fbttfullscreenp
 
In the last half year I used Safari 4 -> Firfox (last) -> Safari 5.
I did have problems with safari, but they were solved after I trashed all my cookies. Now I use Safari 5 (+ glims) and it gives me the feeling it's good, fast, usefull and reliable. Except I can't see any favicons in Safari on my Macbook Pro. (But it works on the macbook...)

So I still prefer Safari 5.

I had a feeling Firefox works significantly slower.
I don't like Chrome because I miss the opportunity to block adds.
I didn't ever consider Opera as an alternative ;-)
 
Imo, with current internet speeds any modern browser will only have negligible differences in rendering speed. I say go with whatever browser has the best feature set, which to me is Firefox. I dont care if it takes 1/10s longer to render a page when i have addons that make web browsing much more enjoyable.
 
I had a situation like this when Safari 5 came out. The first few days it froze up and made my Mac lag a lot. The issue for me seemed to be with Safari 5 & aMSN. When the two were both running at the same time, they would both freeze up and stop responding. I had to force quit both.

The situation seems to have rectified itself, though. No idea how, sorry.

thanks for the help. i reinstalled safari and everything seems to be working... for now.
 
guys run the browser benchmark on your system and compare:
http://service.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/


Chrome kicks safari's ass!:D
these are my results:
http://clients.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/results.action?key=3iaa


my system: uMBP 2.8ghz, 4GB, 7200rpm HDD

so i just ran that, and after using firefox for the past year+, i went back to safari.

safari blew chrome and firefox out of the water.

another thing i noticed was, youtube on safari my fan doesn't spin up at ALL. on firefox, it goes 3000-3500RPM.

definitely gonna stick with safari for now.
 
guys run the browser benchmark on your system and compare:
http://service.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/


Chrome kicks safari's ass!:D
these are my results:
http://clients.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/results.action?key=3iaa


my system: uMBP 2.8ghz, 4GB, 7200rpm HDD

Haha, Chrome destroyed safari on mine too. Almost double the score.

I love how rampant this forum runs with mis-information. First off, fastest browser means different things to a lot of people. Secondly, just because you love a browser, doesn't mean everyone else has to. In the same vein, just because your browser does something well, doesn't mean it's better than every other. Lastly, everyone's mileage may vary, different strokes for different folks, etc.
 
My browser of choice was Safari until I got onto Chrome. My primary problem with Safari was that it would take more than a minute to load the first page when it was opened after a reboot. Chrome doesn't have that problem. On the other hand, Chrome can't handle Netflix streaming so when I want to want to watch a movie or TV show via NF streaming, I have to open it in Safari. I guess there really is no free lunch. Despite that frustration, I have concluded that Chrome works better for me than Safari.
 
Imo, with current internet speeds any modern browser will only have negligible differences in rendering speed. I say go with whatever browser has the best feature set, which to me is Firefox. I dont care if it takes 1/10s longer to render a page when i have addons that make web browsing much more enjoyable.

it's not about internet speeds
it's how well the browser renders websites; Peacemaker tests the browsers ability independent of web connection speeds to run Javascript

For the most part, unless you're comparing the differences b/w a really crappy browser (IE is absolutely horrendous on my old Dell) and one of the decent ones (I installed Chrome and the performance difference is staggering), the differences will be minimal and dependent upon user preference (some like the minimalist, snappy design while others like their browsers with tons of capabilities/plug-ins)
 
it's not about internet speeds
it's how well the browser renders websites; Peacemaker tests the browsers ability independent of web connection speeds to run Javascript

For the most part, unless you're comparing the differences b/w a really crappy browser (IE is absolutely horrendous on my old Dell) and one of the decent ones (I installed Chrome and the performance difference is staggering), the differences will be minimal and dependent upon user preference (some like the minimalist, snappy design while others like their browsers with tons of capabilities/plug-ins)

Thats what i'm saying. With connection speeds as fast as they are the only thing that matters is how fast a browser renders, and most are within just a few milliseconds of each other, so i go with the browser that has the best features.
 
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