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Safari 3 - Anyone switched to it full time?

Are you going back to Safari?

  • Yes

    Votes: 175 80.6%

  • No

    Votes: 42 19.4%
  • Total voters
    217
Firefox user since 1.0 here, and now that I have Leopard and Safari 3 I've been using Safari and have not felt any need to download Firefox.

The main reason I'm loving the newest Safari and sticking with it, is the speed. 😎
 
theman said:
The reason I don't use safari: I have to type .com in the navagation bar for it to go to the website i want. in firefox, I can just type words and it does a google search to find the first hit. I love that. however, safari 3 is now somewhat useable for me now, unlike safari 2. But i am still happy with firefox and probably won't switch. it is fast, opens quickly (2 bounces at the most) on my MBP, and has all my extensions.
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if you just type, 'sony' for example, it will auto-resolve it to www.sony.com, in safari 3
 
I've used Safari even before the beta came out...it's so much better because of its near instant launch time, and the fact that it launches web pages faster. I also love the find feature. It's the best browser in the world, for me, anyway.
 
Safari on Mac OS X.

Firefox is the only option on Windows, though. I've heard Safari on Windows is less than stellar.
 
Windows Safari is a bit different, which is to be expected under Windows.

As for Safari 3, I'm liking it so far. There's a few things that Firefox does that I've not found any work arounds for yet, so it remains #2 browser, but it's made some improvements over ver. 2
 
torpy said:
Middle-click on the link perhaps? 🙂
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my "middle click" (i have a BT MM, the nipple is the third button right?) is for dashboard, something i cant stand to part with 🙁 (however i lived without it, ill never know)

with great expectations and rock-hard nipples, i awaite Apple's addition to "click link and open a new tab" option 🙂

and also, heres to hoping there is a way to block those stupid "congradulations you have won a free $Somethingorother" flash ads with Safari (can't remember how i pulled that off on FF)
 
phillipjfry said:
I use safari full time and its starting to grow on me. Right now I would be thrilled to use it if only it had the option to open links into new tabs instead of having to hold down the command button too.
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wrldwzrd89 said:
I've switched back to Safari for Leopard. If only I had a way to block ads... there's a clever hack I used in previous Mac OS X releases to block ads on all browsers but I don't know if it's supported in Leopard.😱
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Saft does this, and restores last session tabs automatically after a crash.
 
chillywilly said:
Would be nice to see an option to turn this option on without having to wait for a crash.
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SafariStand has the option 🙂

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I really like safari, but Firefox's Web Developer and Zend Studio toolbars mean I will be staying there for the forseeable future.
 
When i first got a mac i used Safari, after discovering macrumors.com i switched to firefox and i liked it a lot better. I only went back to Safari when 3.0 came out, its faster then firefox, its better then firefox and it opens every single website i attempted.

On a mac i am 100% safari 3.0, on a PC i am 100% firefox.
 
One thing I like about Safari is the auto complete feature. It works better than IE or Firefox and it makes it nice for filling out common information like user ID, names, phone numbers, etc.
 
Does anyone know why when you visit nearly all websites that require login windows or certain boxes, the formatting is all over the place?

I know immediate answers will come back saying "the website author didn't check for safari compatibility" but I'm sorry that really isn't an answer.

If an author writes just for M$ IE then why cant safari by clever enough to show the page how it was supposed to be shown all formatted correctly.

A few instances are my banking site where the columns are screwed and www.followus.co.uk where after you login the text with your credit appears over some other text and some clickable boxes are all over the place.
 
Safari is pleasant but for some of us can't fully switch to Safari, they have to use alternatives to be compatible to the intended browser, mostly IE and Firefox.
 
johny5 said:
Does anyone know why when you visit nearly all websites that require login windows or certain boxes, the formatting is all over the place?

I know immediate answers will come back saying "the website author didn't check for safari compatibility" but I'm sorry that really isn't an answer.

If an author writes just for M$ IE then why cant safari by clever enough to show the page how it was supposed to be shown all formatted correctly.

A few instances are my banking site where the columns are screwed and www.followus.co.uk where after you login the text with your credit appears over some other text and some clickable boxes are all over the place.
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Which Safari are you using? I went to that FollowUs page and it looks the exact same in FireFox 2 as it does in Safari3. I have come across a page or two that has the formatting all wonky. And honestly, Safari compatibility is not the answer, but rather (to my understanding) internet compatibility is.

Safari3 can pass what is known as the Acid2 test, which basically has your browser draw a smiley face, except the smiley face is rendered by most every web protocol available. If your browser cannot draw the smiley, then your browser cannot handle certain protocols. Well, that was how it was explained to me at least. Google Acid2 and run your browser through it. FF2 fails, IE(n) fails, the latest version of Opera passes, and Shiira does, as does OmniWeb I believe.
 
I used FireFox in windows but have used Safari all the time I've had a mac (2 years). Mainly because it's there and I don't see any reason to use another one. And Safari 3 is an improvement too, loving webclip.
 
I like Safari but until it can do keyword searches like Firefox, I will use Firefox mostly. I need to quickly look up stock quotes, earnings, charts, and I have assigned shortcuts for them such as "g symbol" for a Google Finance quote.
 
johny5 said:
If an author writes just for M$ IE then why cant safari by clever enough to show the page how it was supposed to be shown all formatted correctly.
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I believe one reason for this is that IE sometimes plays by their own rules. Safari (and other browsers) try to follow the standards. It's not so much the browser's fault that a page gets formatted differently, it's the design of the web page that conformed only to one browser because that's all the tested and supported is where the issue is.

A lot of banking sites will have to certify a browser for security reasons. While I understand that, Safari and Firefox do have a decent level of supporting the standard security functions.

And I'm seeing that Safari 3 is a lot better than ver. 2 in supporting more Web standards. I think a lot of that is that web sites have been cleaned up to better support the standards.
 
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