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The end of Safari???
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however you can enable private browsing at any time and do not have to delete all of your history...
Yes, but I'd rather have the browser not track history for the duration of my session AND save my previous history. Firefox simply cannot do that, at least out of the box.
actually you can download this addon https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1306 it does what safari does and more
I meant by end of Safari by meaning since I thought that lots of ppl were switching to firefox that Safari would soon become the next IE7
I think I would like Firefox better If it were integrated in the OS. However, I greatly prefer Safari's interface. I'm used to it. If firefox 2 were good I would still be using it. I loved 1 and 1.5 they were fantastic and 2 was terrible so I decided I would use Safari. I have been using it ever since.
By the Way Safari has many plug in's some good one's too. Like Inquisitor.
I have tried Firefox 3 and I just keep going back to Safari, Maybe I will try it longer. But I have yet to see any compelling reason to use it rather than safari.
By the Way Safari has many plug in's some good one's too. Like Inquisitor.
I have tried Firefox 3 and I just keep going back to Safari, Maybe I will try it longer. But I have yet to see any compelling reason to use it rather than safari.
I'm not sure if u've tried firefox 3 long enough to realize this but firefox has basically a built in inquisitor. If you search ipod all the websites that have to do with ipod will pop up not only the ones ipod in the domain name.
ya i use stumbleupon quite often too
Well a poll isn't going to settle anything. Anyway your poll seems to be backfiring a little. Since... safari is winning in a landslide. Thanks for playing! We have some lovely parting gifts.
honestly i only prefer firefox because u can add toolbars, like stumble upon. other that, safari is way faster and looks nicer in OS X also in Safari if you click once in the address bar, it places the cursor right where u clicked, whereas firefox selects the entire address entered in the bar, which is somewhat annoying.
If apple would allow safari to add extra toolbars such as stumble upon i would ditch firefox in an instant, safari would become the ultimate browser, and probably everyone, even PC users would start using
If apple would allow safari to add extra toolbars such as stumble upon i would ditch firefox in an instant, safari would become the ultimate browser, and probably everyone, even PC users would start using
I don't see why people are saying Firefox sucks because it doesn't have this and that like Safari does. The whole point to Firefox is that you are able to customize the browser to your liking through add-ons.
And tuffluffjimmy, you keep mentioning how Firefox is not web standard compliant, yet according to the Acid3 test, neither is Safari.
And tuffluffjimmy, you keep mentioning how Firefox is not web standard compliant, yet according to the Acid3 test, neither is Safari.
Since when is the Acid3 test the standard defining mark? Which Browser does better at the Acid3 test? Safari? hmmm
I never said it defined the standard. You were the one implying that Safari is 100% web standard compliant.
It's more standard compliant. I can find several different sites that aren't displayed correctly in Firefox, but are displayed perfectly in Safari. Can you find a single site that Firefox displays correctly that Safari doesn't?
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I don't see how this means anything. Just because a site looks "perfect" in browser A but not in browser B, that does not mean A is more compliant than B. For one thing, the site may be improperly coded. Prime example, sites that are coded to look good in IE, but look terrible in other browsers.
The fact of the matter is, there is no such thing as a web standard. Safari's standards mode is different from Opera's standards mode which is different from Firefox standards mode.
Decent read: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/03/17.html
Well considering the toolbars in Macrumors aren't displayed correctly in firefox I'd say that it's not because Macrumors was coded for IE.
Sure each browser has its own standards, but your argument was about the Acid3 test. Since Safari gets a better score that'd mean (by your reasoning, not mine) that Safari is more standard compliant than Firefox. (you sort of dug yourself a hole there.)
I really like Opera, and I tried sooo hard to get into it, but I couldn't find a theme I liked, and for some reason Safari just stuck to me better. Any tips?
power of bundling, do you not agree?
With your logic, IE is most standard compliant?
firefox displays correctly that safari doesn't? for example, macrumors write a post page. where is WYSIWYG composer?
Macrumors also has WYSIWYS composer function, which safari can't even display, does that mean firefox is more standard compliant?
For the last time, I'm sitting here tell you and everyone. YOU DON"T KNOW WHAT WEB STANDARDS ARE! and you are spreading lies around right now by re-defining a well-establish term (3 or 4 times already!) and twisting its meaning and trying to muddling the water.
If I need to reply again and again and again to your false statements, I will be glad to do so. But I would appreciate if you take 5 minutes to read something about what are web standards (only if your false statement is from your lack of knowledge, if you know the fact and intentionally making the false claim, that would be a total different issue).
I have no beef with you. The other joker said I was making baseless claims or whatever. Which is not true. Fact Sarfari has no bookmark sorting feature like all other browsers, which is a turn off for some people. Fact you cant create a new bookmark folder while adding new bookmark like all other browsers. Fact there is no way to turn on single click highlight for the URL bar and search bar, like you can for all other browsers.
So instead of responding to those facts about Safari, that anyone could determine the validity of in mere seconds by testing themselves, tuffluff or what ever his/her name is got his/her pride hurt because he/she thought I was bashing on Safari, and had to go off and say I was making false or baseless claims (sorry to lazy to look back at the thread).
If he/she cant offer some alternative way of doing those things in Safari or just acknowledge that they are limitations the he/she just needs to **** instead of trying to put someone down.
I like Safari, more than I like FF3 on OS X. Its more polished and works better overall, more compatible over all with various sites, and crashes way less. However I need to those features enough that I deal with the FF3 and its warts on OS X. If Safari added those features in 4.0 I would happily switch. Its just a browser.
Yeah, but maybe you have never used Inquisitor, when you type Dell in for Example it displays Dell.com When I hit it, I am taken Directly to dell, Totally skipping google.
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Here's my take on the whole Safari vs. Firefox.
I personally prefer a lot of things from both of them. I do love the fact that with firefox, if you have an issue you can usually find an add-on to support it.
But the Safari experience is just so much... smoother. Simpler, really. It's like comparing Linux to OS X. If you want Linux to perform better, you can change it, add on to it, etc. But OS X (to use the cliché) "just works".
Just like Safari. It all just runs so well, and the experience of using is just so much better, I think.
I personally prefer a lot of things from both of them. I do love the fact that with firefox, if you have an issue you can usually find an add-on to support it.
But the Safari experience is just so much... smoother. Simpler, really. It's like comparing Linux to OS X. If you want Linux to perform better, you can change it, add on to it, etc. But OS X (to use the cliché) "just works".
Just like Safari. It all just runs so well, and the experience of using is just so much better, I think.
Ffox quirks
Arrrgh- that bit's clumsy.
& Browser Add-ons?
just Furniture on the I-Superhighway.
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But here's the Ffox KoolAid, for my mind:
It can't simply open when clicked. why?
No, well Ffox has another agenda:
"Restore old session?"
Or will we be extravagant- start anew?
Please wait there while we poll you.
Your browser will be available in only a handful of seconds.
By then I've moved on.
I could open Safari four times by then.
&Don't we have the history for 'old session' business -
Was Ffox crashing so often it became necessary to interfere?
I want mine outa the way
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But I loved the user-tuneability of IE for Mac,
and I loved IE's transparent, intuitive bookmark handling best of all.
I used it until gmail demanded 'no more'.
Safari is only now beginning to fill that space for me.
But manipulating Ffox bookmarks equals extra steps-
ie., click 'rename', to rename.
What's with that?
... sorta makes me think of
*shudder*
AOL's dumbed-down mind-control program
Arrrgh- that bit's clumsy.
& Browser Add-ons?
just Furniture on the I-Superhighway.
- - -
But here's the Ffox KoolAid, for my mind:
It can't simply open when clicked. why?
No, well Ffox has another agenda:
"Restore old session?"
Or will we be extravagant- start anew?
Please wait there while we poll you.
Your browser will be available in only a handful of seconds.
By then I've moved on.
I could open Safari four times by then.
&Don't we have the history for 'old session' business -
Was Ffox crashing so often it became necessary to interfere?
I want mine outa the way
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But I loved the user-tuneability of IE for Mac,
and I loved IE's transparent, intuitive bookmark handling best of all.
I used it until gmail demanded 'no more'.
Safari is only now beginning to fill that space for me.
But manipulating Ffox bookmarks equals extra steps-
ie., click 'rename', to rename.
What's with that?
... sorta makes me think of
*shudder*
AOL's dumbed-down mind-control program
The WYSIWYG text editor for Firefox is inconsistent. Sure the smilies show up when you click the smiley instead of
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[QUOTE]I only said that the question you replied to had already been answered. It's pretty funny that you're talking about putting others down and acting like you're the victim when you were the one who originally said I should look into Reading Is Fundemental. So right there you made the initial personal insults.
