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Mac Poll: Firefox or Safari 3
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Do you know that your computer will work ok without needing to use THE CAPS LOCK KEY!?
I'm surprised we missed the "OMG F1R3F0X IS T3H BR0WSER 0F D00M!!!!one1!!eleven!!!" part
I'm surprised we missed the "OMG F1R3F0X IS T3H BR0WSER 0F D00M!!!!one1!!eleven!!!" part
Firefox versus Safari 3 Beta
anyone else had this experience. i know this is an anticlimatic topic. but, i had switched from safari to firefox a while back. then, yesterday, doing my own "one mississippi" scientific testing, i noticed that safari would come in consistently at about one second faster than firefox. i know there are many who believe firefox to be definitely faster. apple is advertising safari as "the fastest browser on any platform" now. anyway, seems that it may be valid.
fyi, i use an imac g5 1.6 w/ 1 gb ram. i will test the macbook and see if it results the same.
one note. in terms of standards, firefox and others may still be better. i noticed on a google image search, that firefox delivered an image properly in it's own context, where safari glitched it a little and couldn't show it properly without going to an additional url.
anyone else had this experience. i know this is an anticlimatic topic. but, i had switched from safari to firefox a while back. then, yesterday, doing my own "one mississippi" scientific testing, i noticed that safari would come in consistently at about one second faster than firefox. i know there are many who believe firefox to be definitely faster. apple is advertising safari as "the fastest browser on any platform" now. anyway, seems that it may be valid.
fyi, i use an imac g5 1.6 w/ 1 gb ram. i will test the macbook and see if it results the same.
one note. in terms of standards, firefox and others may still be better. i noticed on a google image search, that firefox delivered an image properly in it's own context, where safari glitched it a little and couldn't show it properly without going to an additional url.
I think I saw someone recommending this, said to make firefox up to 8X faster:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1269
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1269
I use Safari, tried Firefox on a number of times but just don't get along with it. Safari has pretty much everything I need when browsing the net. People always go on about Firefox having extensions while i find them useful when using windows but in OS X Safari rules over firefox.
Go between Mac and PC way too much everyday. The only the constants for me are iTunes, and Firefox. God I love that guy. 
EDIT:Is there an FTP manager in Safari? That might make me use it more on Mac.
EDIT:Is there an FTP manager in Safari? That might make me use it more on Mac.
Only two choices here? I mean, come on, there's Camino, SeaMonkey, Netscape 9 (now in beta), Opera, iCab, OmniWeb, Shiira, He-man
okay, so I made the last one up, but still, the browser world doesn't just revolve around Safari and Firefox.
After updating Safari to the 3.0 beta, again I found myself annoyed that the search engine for the search box cannot be changed without installing an add-on. I downloaded Camino 1.5 and was pleasantly surprised that although there was not a GUI for search engine management (as there is in Firefox, IIRC), there is a tutorial on adding your own that is much more helpful. For example, I was able to add a search on YouTube that sorts by date uploaded rather than whatever the default is.
I'm not much on Firefox because it has yet to become a "real" Mac browser -- kind of like Pinnochio. SeaMonkey is making great strides as it is moving towards version 2.0 -- the underlying code has been moved to use more of the same code that Firefox uses, so it has gotten some speed boosts. At the end of the day, the browser that I use the most is Camino -- it's got the right amount of polish and speed, and the developers care more about the user experience than some high-minded technological principles (although trying to make web site developers sniff for feature support rather than specific browsers is noble, it's not fair to punish Camino users because web site developers lock out browsers other than IE and Firefox when the code for Camino shares so much in common with Firefox).
After updating Safari to the 3.0 beta, again I found myself annoyed that the search engine for the search box cannot be changed without installing an add-on. I downloaded Camino 1.5 and was pleasantly surprised that although there was not a GUI for search engine management (as there is in Firefox, IIRC), there is a tutorial on adding your own that is much more helpful. For example, I was able to add a search on YouTube that sorts by date uploaded rather than whatever the default is.
I'm not much on Firefox because it has yet to become a "real" Mac browser -- kind of like Pinnochio. SeaMonkey is making great strides as it is moving towards version 2.0 -- the underlying code has been moved to use more of the same code that Firefox uses, so it has gotten some speed boosts. At the end of the day, the browser that I use the most is Camino -- it's got the right amount of polish and speed, and the developers care more about the user experience than some high-minded technological principles (although trying to make web site developers sniff for feature support rather than specific browsers is noble, it's not fair to punish Camino users because web site developers lock out browsers other than IE and Firefox when the code for Camino shares so much in common with Firefox).
How come ? firefox's extensions are mostly platform indepedent. if it blocks ads on windows, it does the same on osx?
.02/ I have been using Safari 3 since it was available and have had 0 issues. I am not a web builder, or even an "I got to have every damn feature imaginable" guy, but I like it a lot. Does what I need.
There are still some sites that the code is just not Mac compatible, and they should be shunned....
There are still some sites that the code is just not Mac compatible, and they should be shunned....