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What is your favorite browser?
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Yeah, YouTube works perfect in Safari and every other browser I've used on the Mac.
Opera.
I've tried Camino, Firefox, Flock, and Safari.
Safari doesn't like flash with menu's over the top of it, firefox is just amazingly slow for me, Camino.. Just don't like it. Flock, same as firefox.
Opera is the only browser that seems to work well with flash. It renders flash movies much faster than any other browser on the mac that I've tried.
I've tried Camino, Firefox, Flock, and Safari.
Safari doesn't like flash with menu's over the top of it, firefox is just amazingly slow for me, Camino.. Just don't like it. Flock, same as firefox.
Opera is the only browser that seems to work well with flash. It renders flash movies much faster than any other browser on the mac that I've tried.
Ya, I've actually just started using Opera and it's actually held up better than most browsers I've used. Once you configure how to drop the tab bar below the address bar, and with the proper skin, it doesn't look bad. Pretty quick too.
The only bug I've noticed is the youtube bugs. How it doesn't load the thumbnails on youtube....... other than that, so far so good.
Ya, I've actually just started using Opera and it's actually held up better than most browsers I've used. Once you configure how to drop the tab bar below the address bar, and with the proper skin, it doesn't look bad. Pretty quick too.
The only buy is the youtube bugs. How it doesn't load the thumbnails on youtube....... other than that, so far so good.
Yeah, I've not noticed those youtube bugs though..
I've got my tab bar below the address bar
1.Firefox 1.5 - Partly because it's what I used on the PC, but I just LOVE how fast it goes.
2.Tominated. (Yes, I LOVE it!
3.Safari- For some reson it's the only browser that let's me check my email. Thats about it.
EDIT: Tominated is now my main, with FF as a backup. I LOOOVE it!
wow! i didn't think it was that good! BTW: were you the one that gave me the feedback by using the contact form on my site?
are there a lot of features that camino lacks? cause ive been looking at it lately, and im thinking about switching to it. but here on the poll it seems like its completely pathetic
Safari, definitely. More specifically, Safari with PithHelmet, SafariStand, and Inquisitor. Why does it seem like the plugins for Safari are all of better quality than Firefox?
I like Safari because there are a reasonable number of plugins and it just feels more integrated into the OS X environment than Firefox. I do have Camino around as a backup browser though. I need to get the latest nightly so I have spell-checking in it. That's the feature I miss most from Safari.
I like Safari because there are a reasonable number of plugins and it just feels more integrated into the OS X environment than Firefox. I do have Camino around as a backup browser though. I need to get the latest nightly so I have spell-checking in it. That's the feature I miss most from Safari.
because u never really go through firefox's extensions.
and yeah, firefox's extensions are mostly cross-platform, it guarantee u can use it no matter u are using OSX, or windows, or linux, some ppl like it, like me, some ppl don't, like u
anyway, Im glad this post is up again, too many kept asking same question again and again and again. why not pin it at the top?
Camino isn't pathetic but it doesn't have the focus or the development resources that the other browsers have. Shiira is another browser that was interesting early that has languished.
I used Camino prior to Firefox but Firefox has come a long way since that time and Camino hasn't. Camino feels better than Firefox when everything is going right but Camino falls apart quickly when it comes to versatility or when there are problems with the website coding.
I'm not sure I understand bousozoku. Camino uses the same engine as FF so the render is the same. Coding problems that cause problems for camino will also cause problems for FF.
I find the biggest fault with Camino to be its handling of passwords. Safari does this much better imo. I still prefer Camino overall, but I envy Safari's keychain support. Camino is in the process of migrating to the Safari system so things are improving.
Some other things that are no longer a problem are spellcheck. Spellcheck was added a few months back.
I do think you need to use the nightly builds of Camino if you are going that route though. The "stable" releases are so rare that the gekko engine gets too out of date if you wait for only stable releases.
Firefox and Camino have often differed on the versions of Gecko (the rendering engine) that they've used. Unlike Apple's WebKit engine, the Gecko engine is not delivered for all Gecko-compatible applications. A specific version arrives with the applications.
Ah so this is sort of like what I was discussing at the end of my post. If you don't use the nightly builds your gekko engine gets out of date. And even if you use the nightly builds they don't sync with the gekko trunk after every build but rather from stable snapshots. Still if you are using a nightly build of camino it will at the least be more up to date than the latest stable release of FF. But it may be out of date relative to gekko changes since the last stable release of FF.
Gekko doesn't change a whole lot though so I've mostly felt this impact from speed differences between the two (the lastest gekko is almost always faster).
Well, Mozilla has several versions of Gecko available at the same time. Currently, they're working on three versions of Firefox (1.5.x, 2.0.x, and 3.0.x) and each use a different version of Gecko.
Usually, Sea Monkey and Thunderbird will closely follow the changes but Camino is either ahead or behind but rarely using the same version.
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On my Macbook, it's Safari for the general web because I like it, and Camino for sites that don't look right in Safari.
On my PC, it's Firefox for the general web because I like it, and IE7 for sites that don't look right in Firefox.
I don't have Firefox on my Mac because it doesn't feel native, and since I never really got into the whole extentions thing, Safari is the same, feature-wise, as Firefox, at least for me.
On my PC, it's Firefox for the general web because I like it, and IE7 for sites that don't look right in Firefox.
I don't have Firefox on my Mac because it doesn't feel native, and since I never really got into the whole extentions thing, Safari is the same, feature-wise, as Firefox, at least for me.
Safari, unless I'm on my PC, in which case it's IE7.
If IE7 was available for the Mac, I'd switch. Safari don't do YouTube.
I would not go quite so far as to say that but I would like to see a Trident based browser on the Mac platform
in my case its several interactive tutorials with imbedded AVi's that no workey in anything other than I.E. and Safari.
Firefox is to me a bit like the Ford Motor Company a triumph of marketing over engineering