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Which Is Your Favorite Web Browser?
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Camino because I find it more stable than Firefox with the same functionality. Yes I know you can customize Firefox, but that isn't something I do so Camino wins it on stability and integration.
Safari is my other browser of choice, but it doesn't work very well with eBay for some reason.
I might consider Opera as it was one of my favourites when I was a Windows user, but currently I happy with Camino and Safari.
Safari is my other browser of choice, but it doesn't work very well with eBay for some reason.
I might consider Opera as it was one of my favourites when I was a Windows user, but currently I happy with Camino and Safari.
Firefox on the PC platform (although I am getting more and more impressed with Google Chrome)
Safari all the way on the MAC platform.
Count Firefox's number of dock bounces when you first fire it up and try and tell me its anything other than an inelegant port of the WIN32 version.
Also do back to back tests with Safari and Firefox ON A SLOW DIAL UP CONNECTION and I think you will come to the same conclusion as me
Safari all the way on the MAC platform.
Count Firefox's number of dock bounces when you first fire it up and try and tell me its anything other than an inelegant port of the WIN32 version.
Also do back to back tests with Safari and Firefox ON A SLOW DIAL UP CONNECTION and I think you will come to the same conclusion as me
What, no NetPositive?
Net+ was already a bit behind the others back then, I can't imagine using it nowdays with all the CSS/JS-heavy sites around. It was a nice and fast little browser for what it did though.Firefox 3.0 has still many inelegant and ugly Mac bugs, but with Firefox 3.1 is much more possible. I would not say it is an inelegant port ;-)
For example:
http://www.takebacktheweb.org/themes/stuff/GrAppleYumB_1.9.9.17.png
or http://www.takebacktheweb.org/themes/stuff/GrAppleYumB_1.9.9.17-Add-ons.png
Cheers
Looks like Firefox and Safari is going 50 to 50
;-) Read for example this:
Market share by platform
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2008/12/market_share_by.html
Firefox has already now a much higher market share on OS X (27%) than on Windows (19%).
And Firefox 3.1 with countless special Mac improvements increase this trend very likely.
Cheers
i use Firefox with an IE add-on just in case there's the occasional website that is IE only (dumbbb), i do have Safari but i like being able to close a tab with the scroll wheel in Firefox, and all my bookmarks are in Firefox.
Firefox all the way. I can't remember the last time I've actually used Safari, save for at the Apple Store maybe. The availability of add-ons for Firefox have no competition with other browsers.
Hmm...I guess I just use Firefox because I'm used to it after using it for a few years. I use Opera, on occasion, but those times are few and far between. Opera is real nice though! (I now use the Speeddial FF addon after using Opera
)Firefox on the PC platform (although I am getting more and more impressed with Google Chrome)
Safari all the way on the MAC platform.
Count Firefox's number of dock bounces when you first fire it up and try and tell me its anything other than an inelegant port of the WIN32 version.
Also do back to back tests with Safari and Firefox ON A SLOW DIAL UP CONNECTION and I think you will come to the same conclusion as me
my exact thoughts
so a question for all the firefox users here... i've tried it. its fast. its reliable. yes. but i have one continuous complaint about it, and that is the text rendering, especially on the forums here. this is why i prefer to use safari or camino overall because they're legibility is better for me. and tips or any methods of changing FF so that it renders text like safari?
I switched from Firefox to Opera this summer.
I love Opera's single-key shortcuts, and the fact that I can use multirow tabs, or have the tabs shrink indefinitely. (I usually have 100+ tabs open)
I love Opera's single-key shortcuts, and the fact that I can use multirow tabs, or have the tabs shrink indefinitely. (I usually have 100+ tabs open)
I used to switch between Safari and FireFox but then I accidentally deleted Safari and when I tried to redownload it, it wouldn't work so now I am a full time FF user.
What, may i ask, is the purpose of having more than 100 tabs open at any given time?
I have tried Safari, and it just loads way too slow. I'm sorry, but it does. Is that the only other browser I can try?
It's not really a big deal. I sometimes have more than 100 tabs opened. It's just that i don't clear them and don't close the browser for a few days..
Strange. I wonder if reinstalling the Safari package from the OS DVD, then upgrading would resuscitate it.
where minefield? >:-(
its a project by mozilla (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minefield/)
its technically the exact same thing as firefox exect a bit faster in my opinion.
AND all the add ons work!
its a project by mozilla (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minefield/)
its technically the exact same thing as firefox exect a bit faster in my opinion.
AND all the add ons work!