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Safari or Firefox

I've been using Firefox since a few days before the 1.5 release. I was using RC3, so it was basically the final 1.5 release, anyway. To me, it has really improved in 1.5. There were a few things about 1.0 that annoyed me that they fixed in 1.5. The thing I like most about Firefox is that it doesn't seem to use nearly as much memory as Safari.

I figure Firefox will be my browser of choice for a long time.
 
I just tried Shiira at the suggestion earlier in this thread - very nice!! Safari has been crashing a lot for me recently for some reason, and I'm still not smitten with Firefox. Shiira has a couple of very nice, very intuitive features that I can imagine quickly feeling like I can't live without. Thanks for the heads up.
 
tykles said:
I just tried Shiira at the suggestion earlier in this thread - very nice!! Safari has been crashing a lot for me recently for some reason, and I'm still not smitten with Firefox. Shiira has a couple of very nice, very intuitive features that I can imagine quickly feeling like I can't live without. Thanks for the heads up.
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I definitely think Shiira is a nice alternative to Safari. I love the Tab Exposé feature, even though I don't use Exposé in Mac OS X Finder. It's often that I'm trying to refer to more than one browser window.
 
mileslong said:
does anyone know of a way to add the ability to double click the tab bar to open up a new tab like in camino and safari??
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Is that something that is different between OS versions of FF, because double clicking in the windows version (1.5) will open a new tab.
 
Ok, I would have thought that the devs would have programmed them both the same, but I wasn't sure.

Another quick question. Have they added the feature that allows you to mouse-button-click on a link and have it open in a new tab? That feature is great on the PC, but the last time I played with FF on a mac, it didn't work.
 
Another vote for firefox. I find it to be faster. And it doesn't do this annoying thing that safari does - namely when you open a page and start scrolling down, if safari is still loading items (as it often is) it will reset you at the top of the page once it is finished downloading everything.
 
jdechko said:
Ok, I would have thought that the devs would have programmed them both the same, but I wasn't sure.

Another quick question. Have they added the feature that allows you to mouse-button-click on a link and have it open in a new tab? That feature is great on the PC, but the last time I played with FF on a mac, it didn't work.
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Yep, you can force links that would normally open a new window in a new tab in the Preferences.
 
For the folks looking to both close and open tabs easily, if you have a 2 button mouse right click on the tab to get a close tab menu choice or new tab menu choice (along with the other contextual choices related to tabs).
 
My vote is for Camino! I have tried a bunch. Opera, Fire-fox, safari, etc. It seems that Camino has little or no problems with any web page I come across. I usually have a problem with pages that have bad Java scripts in them. Like Ameritrades page and Safari do not get along. It takes forever to load, CPU usage like 80%, and just freezes.

I believe Camino uses the same html engine that FireFox uses, but there was some benefit to Camino. Sorry I cant remember what it was now.
 
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