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Safari or Firefox?

eXan said:
Have to install add-ons just to make an app as it should have been from the beginning? >_>
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what should have been? I didn't have a problem with it, you have, im pointing out a solution for you as an individual, doesn't mean I agree with you its a problem in any fashion for significant number of users.

close tab icon on the right bothers huge number of users? is that what you trying to say? I don't think so.

I use mice gestures all the time, i drag my mice down half of inch to close the tab, if thats important to you.

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jmj said:
Eh. I used Chrome for about a week on my Windows machine at work. Tried to like it. Tried real hard, but just couldn't. My biggest thing (outside of the annoying bugs) is I hate that hideous blue UI. I just can't get past it. I'll try the Mac version when it comes out, but I'm not all that hopeful.

I prefer Safari on my Macbook, but FF closed the gap a bit (for me) with 3.5. It's very smooth and really improved in the rendering font dept - and it's plenty fast. I'm using it as much as I ever have.
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I'm just talking about it from a pure performance perspective and not design although I think it handles tabs on top far better than the Safari 4 beta builds did. You can try it out yourself. Word is out that Google is supposedly planning to release a ton of themes for Chrome soon so you may find something you like. Just do a search for Chromium nightly builds. I've never seen an app load that quickly and it's ever so slightly faster in browsing over Safari.

I may not use Chrome when it comes out but it's a great browser.
 
Firefox

I was a Safari user until version 4 was released. I found Safari 4 so bad that I switched to Firefox 3.5x and now use it exclusively.
 
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these extra pixels mean the world for me.

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and so do these icons. (and some in the status bar that I hide by default)

So it's Firefox all the way.
 
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until safari gets google toolbar (i use reader and all that stuff) it will be firefox for me for awhile
 
Firefox has the preference "Open new windows in a new tab instead" and the extension LastTab. These two small things make Firefox superior to Safari for me.
 
I am new to Macs, so i dont know if i missed a setting, want to use Safari, but had to switch to FF because i am a Mod for a Group and copy/paste allot of images, and with safari when i paste everything is in code :(
 
I really really like safari but it takes a lot of RAM, so when I'm doing a lot of things I use Firefox
 
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