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Poll: Preferred Browser

What is your preferred browser and why?

  • Safari

    Votes: 130 69.1%

  • Firefox

    Votes: 48 25.5%

  • Mozilla

    Votes: 2 1.1%

  • Camino

    Votes: 22 11.7%

  • Opera

    Votes: 6 3.2%

  • Other (please state which)

    Votes: 5 2.7%
  • Total voters
    188
  • Poll closed .
OmniWeb has been my browser of choice for years (I started using it back in 1998 with version 2.4). I gave Safari a spin when it was first released, but went back to OmniWeb shortly after that.
 
This is a repeat thread, but some people change their minds fairly frequently. I'm loving Safari right now. I was about to dump it a couple months ago cause of instability but its perfect now.

Add PithHelmet for nearly 100% add blocking and I think its pretty close to the perfect browser.
 
I used Firefox for a while but just recently switched to Safari

when i say recently i mean like 10 minutes ago
 
I love Camino and Shiira. Camino will probably always be my favorite browser. Right now, I'm using Safari as my main, though, due to an issue with an important school-related website I have to be on pretty much all the time. SafariStand and SafariSpeed make it livable, but someday I'll definitely go back to bleeding edge G4 Camino. Also, I like having the interface in the browser match the Finder (what can I say? I'm a switcher; as much as I hate IE, I'm used to it looking like Windows Explorer).
 
Are there any apps for safari to unify the look of it?
I know you can unify everything with shapeshifter themes but I don't wanna do that JUST safari.

I saw an app somewhere once i think but it said that after safari 2 it wouldn't work anymore.
 
I would say Safari probably, then Camino or Opera (Firefox seems to be a bit slow, bloated and rugged at times, IMO).

I like Safari because it is fast, works for most sites, has the smoothest scrolling (I think) out of all the Mac browsers, and has a lot of good features. I recently discovered pimpmysafari.com which is really good for providing extra features (e.g. I now have a "New tab" on my browser). They say that they only list useful add ons for Safari.

Camino is nice as well, and Opera has a lot of great features that you won't find in safari or firefox!
 
Safari hands down. I've tried FireFox and Camino (and use them when I come across the odd temperamental site which isn't Safari-compatible), but I just like the way Safari works :)
 
iCe Cube said:
I would say Safari probably, then Camino or Opera (Firefox seems to be a bit slow, bloated and rugged at times, IMO).

I like Safari because it is fast, works for most sites, has the smoothest scrolling (I think) out of all the Mac browsers, and has a lot of good features. I recently discovered pimpmysafari.com which is really good for providing extra features (e.g. I now have a "New tab" on my browser). They say that they only list useful add ons for Safari.

Camino is nice as well, and Opera has a lot of great features that you won't find in safari or firefox!
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surprisingly, Shiira has WAAAAY smoother scrolling than Safari.
 
Camino

I just changed my default browser back to Camino since 1.0 launched. It is the fastest browser I have used and it looks great. But you can't beat the RSS function in Safari. I will probably go back to Safari once the brushed metal is gone. I just started to really dislike the brushed metal since it started to disappear from Apples apps.

On another note I had to give a presentation the other day on Web Browser in computer class. So tried out a bunch of browsers in the last few weeks. What a blast. There are some cool browsers out for OS X. I really liked Flock and Shiira, they are not ready to be daily drivers but have some nice features and look great. They are worth a spin.
 
I've really come around to Firefox. The search plugins and extensions are so nice. Safari is good, but crashes too often for me with more than 5 or 6 tabs open. Firefox has been very stable for me.
 
bobber205 said:
What browser do you use most often?

I've just downloaded Camino for Mozilla, and it's very nice.
But my current fave is Firefox.:rolleyes:
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I use Firefox most of the time (with a silver, Safari-like skin). I like changing the appearance and I don't have to worry as much about certain sites working with it (both in and outside of work). I'm not saying the others don't work just as well, I just like using a browser that is more commonly used by others (that isn't IE).

I like Safari, but I'm sticking with Firefox for now...I suppose I should try out Camino.
 
tivoboy said:
is there a way to do tabbed browsing in safari?
I use Deeppark, the new FF for intel, and camino. Camino is definitly the fastest and I find that the JAVA engine and plug ins for camino work better. I know it should be the same engine, but some sites ONLY play with camino.
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Yeah, just go to preferences in Safari and turn tabbed browsing on.
Why isn't it just on in the frist place??

Seasought said:
I use Firefox most of the time (with a silver, Safari-like skin). I like changing the appearance and I don't have to worry as much about certain sites working with it (both in and outside of work). I'm not saying the others don't work just as well, I just like using a browser that is more commonly used by others (that isn't IE).

I like Safari, but I'm sticking with Firefox for now...I suppose I should try out Camino.
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Agreed.
I feel more like the rest of the people w/ Firefox, since it has about 10% of the market share(right?). And it's pathetic that 88% of the market share is IE. What utter idiots. (sorry, I know it can be good for coding b/c everrrryone uses it... but for security... ugh)
 
 
generik said:
Is there a version of safari that supports tabbed browsing?

Or maybe something that changes firefox so it uses webkit to render pages instead of geeko?
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Go to Preferences>Tabs
Yeah.... see it??
 
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