glosterseagul said:
I must say Safari is what I tend to use - but I do like the scrolling with two fingers to go back and forwrd with firefox. Seema odd that it doesnt work on Safari.
It's supposed to be horizontal scrolling, not back/forward; it just happens that the default Firefox config does that (by mistake it would seem)
I guess it depends how you use your browser; I found it
very annoying, as I was going back/forward by mistake when scrolling down. I also use the horizontal scrolling quite a bit on sites with large images. (I don't like my browser window to fill the screen)
Personally I go with Firefox; I can set it up just how I like it, unlike safari, and there are some great extensions for it that either don't have an equivalent for Safari, or don't work as well.
With Firefox, after doing some config file tweaks, it's now a completely single window browser. (with the exception of certain popup windows, like screenshots on some sites)
The "Linkification" extension will convert plain-text links on any page into html ones, which saves me copying and pasting links on quite a few sites.
The "Web developer toolbar" can be toggled on and off with one button, and is invaluable when working on a site.
And then there's "Adblock." This extension is the reason I can't go back to any other browser; I rarely ever see an advertisement of any kind on web pages anymore, and if I do, I can just add them to my config file to block them. Not only does it block adverts, I can also use it to remove elements from pages that I don't want to see.
Firefox does have some downsides though; while page loading seems as fast or faster, actual performance is worse than Safari. Flash runs a lot slower, for example.
Performance has increased quite significantly on OSX compared to older builds though, and 1.1 will see another leap in performance. (I played around with a G5 Optimized build on my iMac and it was at least twice as fast)
(as you can tell by my 'tar)
