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#@$@#$ so many different browsers around...

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triotary

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Mar 17, 2005
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man why is there so many out there now????


Camino
Opera
OmniWeb
MyIE2/Maxthon
Shiira
Firefox
Safari
I bet there is more...

I have been using firefox ever since it came out and it does the job pretty well.

But looking on these threads about this and that browser is better blah blah blah...

it seems that everyone of them has their own supporters, which make it worst for us to choose...

but exactly which one of them is the best for OSX?
 
More options is a good thing.

Different people are looking for different things in a browser. Look at why people like a certain browser and see if that's important to you. Or just take them all for a spin and decide for yourself.
 
You did indeed miss a couple, but anyway...

I use Safari, I like the look and feel of it. Firefox, Camino, and Omniweb are all very solid Mac browsers as well.
 
triotary said:
...exactly which one of them is the best for OSX?
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There is no "best for OS X" browser. There is a browser that meets your needs and that is the best browser for you.

Variety and choice is a good thing. Without it, we would still be stuck wtih IE. Choice forced MS out of the Mac browser business since theirs was so pitiful in comparison to the others.
 
emaja said:
There is no "best for OS X" browser. There is a browser that meets your needs and that is the best browser for you.

Variety and choice is a good thing. Without it, we would still be stuck wtih IE. Choice forced MS out of the Mac browser business since theirs was so pitiful in comparison to the others.
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Indeed... but one has to d/l and install everyone of them to really find out ourself which is the best to our own needs... well I Guess it is a pro and con situation ^_^ I will just stick to firefox :)
 
You can use real player as a web browser :eek:

I flip browsers from firefox, safari, and camino. Camino can't handle video/audio that well so I use safari for that. I use firefox when I want to view flash animation. kinda like that
 
KingYaba said:
You can use real player as a web browser :eek:

I flip browsers from firefox, safari, and camino. Camino can't handle video/audio that well so I use safari for that. I use firefox when I want to view flash animation. kinda like that
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Why can't you just use either firefox or safari for all purposes?
 
you can.

For example, usually I use Safari for everything, but when
I am traveling, I usually switch over to opera because I can set it not to download images when I am web browsing on my Verizon EVDO card making it much faster.
 
i use safari as the main because I feel that it ties in more with the overall theme and structure of the OS when my bandwidth is really not an issue.
 
iJawn108 said:
Bon Echo
it's the fastest browser i have ever used. beats firefox/opera/ie7 on my machine.
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Bon Echo is the intel version of Firefox right? I loved it except it crashed every 2 minutes :(
 
bon echo isn't the intel version - all Firefox, in pretty much all languages, are universal binaries :)

As stated on the alpha prerelease page:

Bon Echo Alpha 1 is a developer preview release of our next generation Firefox browser and it is being made available for testing purposes only. Bon Echo Alpha 1 is intended for web application developers and our testing community.
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A list of possibilities are good for the consumer, keeps the developers on their toes, who knows we might end up seeing some features of shiiri in the (hopefuly) new safari! And more importantly the website developers, their target market is no longer 100% internet explorer 6! :p they are forced to use actual web standards!

Personally I use Safari most of the time, for some reason gmail doesnt want to work on it for me so only then do I switch to camino.
 
I say use Firefox... i been using it since late 2002, which use to be called Phoenix I believe, and I been a happy user since :)
 
I personally use Camino, since it's basically Firefox with a Mac OS X look and feel. If extension don't bother you that much, then test out Camino.

Safari just won't do it for me... opens too slow and web page load times are longer.
 
camino: fast, no extension, good compatibility, single window mode
firefox: slower than camino, extension support, good compatibility, single window mode
safari: fast, no extension, ok compatibility
shiira: fast, no extension, ok compatibility, single window mode
opera: slow on mac?, no extension, ok compatibility singlw window mode
webkit: fast, no extension, good compatibility

Omniweb, $29
 
you haven't used windows for a long time have you? there's more than twice as much browsers than your list. more is always better, as long if it's free.
 
 
it seems that everyone of them has their own supporters, which make it worst for us to choose...

but exactly which one of them is the best for OSX?
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Choice is good, competition drives innovation. I like having 7 browsers in my dock. My advice would be try them, see which ones you like. Personally I can't stand FireFox, looks bad and is slow.
 
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