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Which is your favorite Mac browser and why?

Chrome and Safari

Safari looks a bit better than Chrome. And seems more polished. Safari's preferences are laid out very cleanly. History menu looks better.

But Safari gives the occasional delay or beachball for no reason. And lately I click a tab in Safari and nothing happens. The tab changes, but screen stays the same. It's an occasional bug.

Chrome is faster. Seems more responsive. I like how new tabs open adjacent to current tab. Safari needs to copy that pronto. Starting to like the all-in-one address/search bar too.

But Chrome is lacking some polish and doesn't look as good. IT's advancing rapidly though.

I use Firefox only when I have web page problems with the first two.
 
Sounds like you have a problem as my 3 year old iMac is happy with any browser I am in the mood to use be it Safari, Firefox, or Chrome. :D
 
Safari crashed while I was watching England vs Scotland on the bbc website yesterday, basically it was Flash's fault, but I'd rather just the one tab crash than everything else.

I then downloaded Chrome and have been using that since, I do use Chrome at work though, so Chrome has to be my favourite browser at the moment.
 
kioshi said:
Hi guys,Chrome, Rockmelt, Flock and all these who use the Chromium engine annoy me because pages lock up and 'die' too often
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Some confusion here with browser tech. A browser is an engine and a front end. The engine displays the pages. The front end does user stuff like bookmarks. Two browsers with the same engine are effectively the same for compatibility and speed IN MOST CASES.

The main 3 browser engines are
* webkit - used by Google Chrome & Safari
* gecko - used by Mozilla Firefox
* trident - used by Internet Explorer

Other engines are an insignificant minority. (A few KHTML-powered Konqueror browsers in LINUX land but most use Firefox). I've never seen Opera hit any of my websites - EVER.

Webkit is a very fast engine, the fastest of the three, and is stable. Safari and all of the 'Chromium' DIY kit browsers from Google will perform similarly (but not identically) on your Mac since they all have Webkit. Your crashing is probably a result of something else in your Mac install, maybe plugins. Perhaps Flash or anti-virus?

Firefox 4 is a beta (now an RC) so yea, can't blame it for crashing. Give it a week or so to release. Firefox 3 is good but its version of gecko is slow compared to webkit. Firefox 4 is quicker than 3 but I'm not seeing it run any faster than Safari does.

Any IE lower than 9 is junk.
 
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I do like Chrome because it has a built in feature to sync your bookmarks etc with Google and so I have access to them on every computer I use.
 
For me safari all the way! Never have a problem. It's quick and integrates better with my iOS devices. Not to mention all of the multi-touch gestures that make browsing even snappier
 
Safari for the works its my favorite of all its rock solid on most Macs and even PPC Machines run it nice and fast too
My List
1. :apple:Safari
2. Camino
3. Chrome
4. TenFourFox
5. Opera
6. Firefox
7. IE- its a piece of trash anyway
 
Canary. Why? Google Instant. Loads Facebook and any other site I go to before I finish typing it.

Plus it's streamlined, fast as hell, and very stable.

I also use Opera for it's Turbo feature when I'm at a coffee shop or something and the Wifi isn't that great. It compresses the data (pictures and whatnot) so everything loads faster and, if I'm tethering on my cell, it saves bandwidth.
 
Safari

My reasons:

1. Syncing bookmarks between 2 Macs and 2 iOS devices.

2. Best 1Password implementation (but I haven't tried the others in a while).

3. Separate search box (I just don't like them sharing a box!).

4. Snap Back button.
 
I'm just waiting for Chrome to integrate the new Lion swipe gestures. Then I'll go back to using Chrome exclusively.
 
cjjr72984 said:
I'm just waiting for Chrome to integrate the new Lion swipe gestures. Then I'll go back to using Chrome exclusively.
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Get BetterTouchTool and have whatever you want integrated in all applications across the board?

I have all of my swipes working for Chrome, Safari, Canary, Opera, and Firefox and they all work perfectly. That extends to Finder itself, and any other browser where they would apply.

It also (amazingly) works through parallels so you can have the same gestures (well it's just using gestures to make actions) work in Windows or any OS you run on there.
 
EvanLugh said:
the latest dev build has them, and bouncing scroll. however lacks the nifty animations.
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Yea I just downloaded the Beta and I love it. Is the Beta and Dev version the same?

Young Spade said:
Get BetterTouchTool and have whatever you want integrated in all applications across the board?

I have all of my swipes working for Chrome, Safari, Canary, Opera, and Firefox and they all work perfectly. That extends to Finder itself, and any other browser where they would apply.

It also (amazingly) works through parallels so you can have the same gestures (well it's just using gestures to make actions) work in Windows or any OS you run on there.
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Might have to try that. Thanks!
 
I have no 'favourite' browser; I use browsers based on activity, e.g., Safari for Netflix, banking, and YouTube; Flock for social sites and forums (such as this board); Firefox for porn; OmniWeb for job hunting; and Chrome for general browsing.
 
colourfastt said:
I have no 'favourite' browser; I use browsers based on activity, e.g., Safari for Netflix, banking, and YouTube; Flock for social sites and forums (such as this board); Firefox for porn; OmniWeb for job hunting; and Chrome for general browsing.
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Question, why Chrome for those things? Does it do a better job at handling flash video? That's what I'm guessing anyway.

Or does it incorporate HTML5 over flash?
 
Young Spade said:
Question, why Chrome for those things? Does it do a better job at handling flash video? That's what I'm guessing anyway.

Or does it incorporate HTML5 over flash?
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I just randomly chose Chrome. I could have easily chosen Opera or Camino.
 
colourfastt said:
I just randomly chose Chrome. I could have easily chosen Opera or Camino.
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Lol I'm sorry, I meant Safari; if the answer's the same though that's cool. I have all browsers installed in case something doesn't work right one Canary (and sometimes it doesn't) but I never really use Safari.

Opera's Turbo feature should be incorporated into Canary.
 
Safari is my main browser, then also use Firefox 8.0a1 (nightly builds) as a secondary browser.
Safari is so much better on Lion, much snappier etc, not on a great connection (5-6mbps) and pages load much quicker on Lion than SL.

Chrome is NOT installed on my mac - nor never will be :)

Down with Google! lol
 
GollumBoy said:
Safari is my main browser, then also use Firefox 8.0a1 (nightly builds) as a secondary browser.
Safari is so much better on Lion, much snappier etc, not on a great connection (5-6mbps) and pages load much quicker on Lion than SL.

Chrome is NOT installed on my mac - nor never will be :)

Down with Google! lol
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What's wrong with Google? Lol. But you should really try the Canary browser; it's pretty much amazing.
 
Cheffy Dave said:
Chrome, works like a champ, it is my go to when the ball starts spinning in Safari,same page but no spinning ball of death, so,please, tell me why that happens with Safari, but on the same page, Chrome has no issues:confused:
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You'd think the "official" browser for Apple computers would be the best one. It's the only one I do not and refuse to use.
 
Mac In School said:
Safari

My reasons:

1. Syncing bookmarks between 2 Macs and 2 iOS devices.

2. Best 1Password implementation (but I haven't tried the others in a while).

3. Separate search box (I just don't like them sharing a box!).

4. Snap Back button.
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5. Lion's trackpad gestures.
 
It used to be Firefox.

But the latest release is so buggy it's barely usable.

Constantly spinning beach balls, unresponsiveness.

Just had another crash when I had to force quit Firefox. Nothing worked any more. Had to restart through keyboard.

Downloaded Chrome.

Sorry, Firefox, it was nice as long as you were working, but these bugs are no longer bearable.
 
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