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It's that time again -- browser wars #5! Which OS X browser is your favorite?
1/1: It's that time again -- browser wars #5! Which OS X browser is your favorite?
Other polls | 4,005 votes | 29 comments
The times, they are a changing?
The "which browser" poll seems to be a favorite, and a lot has changed since the last time I asked the question (February, 2004). Since then, we've had the release of Firefox, a major upgrade to OmniWeb, continual improvements in Camino, and the introduction of a totally new web browser (Shiira, which is worth checking out even if you don't end up using it).
So how about it, what's the mix look like today? Last time out, Safari stomped all challengers... -rob.
favourite...
I use Safari on OSX, and am very happy with it, especially since I installed "AcidSearch"... check it out for being able to use multiple search engines within the built-in box in Safari.
Safari's getting old...
Have started to use Firefox a lot more, particularly at work on the PC. I'm getting bored of Safari - Apple better launch a new version soon, or I'm going to switch!
Safari's getting old...
"Getting old?" I don't see what is so old about it. Standards aren't progressing so quickly that Safari is now out-of-date. It renders faster than most browsers that support the same standards. I haven't used Firefox much so I can't make a comparison, but Safari is by no means a laggard among the current crop of browsers.
I'm still deciding
I've used Safari since it was first released. I think that it is certainly the best browser. What I've seen and tested from the Tiger version looks promising. However for the past month or so I've been using Firefox exculsively! The reason? Speed! Apple, I love Safari, the new features look great, but for gods sake spend some time on some faster rendering. I can handle being a little slower than PC, but it should be as fast Firefox, which is still crawling compared to PCs.
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I tried almost all of them 'cept Shiira. They're great browsers ('cept IE :p) but I stick with Safari for its simplicity and thoughtful interface. I'm all for Safari's achromatic theme and those cluttering icons most other browsers have. Speed doesn't matter to me since I usually do something else when browsing.
I love Safari but...
I really love Safari, but it butchers a number of sites I need to use which make extensive use of JavaScript. Very frustrating, since Mozilla, Firefox, Camino, and the dreaded IE all have no problem with these sites. Nor do Firefox or IE on Windows. If this annoyance is resolved, I'll probably remove my other browsers. I've started using Camino a lot lately and do like it... but Safari seems to win out overall for me.
The "Other" category???
What browser could be in "Other?"
The "Other" category???
How about the Web browser that's part of RealPlayer 10. Certainly not one of the best browsers, but it has some of the best looking (if not screen wasting eye candy) chrome.
Safari once and for all
I am not surprised at all to see Safari stomping out everything once again. But what is so dreaded about Internet Explorer? I never use it, but I'm just asking. And where's Netscape on this list?
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Safari once and for all
Netscape's there -- it has three votes so far.
Regarding IE, check out this link for some of its issues: http://www.macedition.com/cb/ie5macbugs/ There are other links from there with more issues, but that's most of the biggies, especially related to its CSS support. Going through the redesign process on hints now, I'm really having trouble making some of the stuff I want to do work in IE. I'll end up coding a browser check for it, and then serving different files just to work around the bug -- all for the sake of the six people who voted that they use it :). -rob.
IE is a CSS nightmare
Bad CSS is right... MS wants to be the standard, not follow the standard and this is incredibly evident in their implementation of CSS. However, in the case of IE having CSS problems, they're much much worse on the Mac version of IE. Not to mention MS decided that apple had an unfair advantage by releasing Safari so they quit developing IE for Mac. Poor Microsoft... They don't have enough access to the OS so they can't compete... boo hoo...
IE is a CSS nightmare
Whoa! I can sure agree with you! I develop a lot of web apps for internal use in the company I work for, as well as create the web site. The IE implementation of CSS on Windows is so bad, it severely limits what can be done.
Safari once and for all
workflow for a web designer:
Camino is Fastest... but I Like Safari
After thorough testing, Camino is faster than Safari on rendering. So I use Camino. I do however like Safari better in terms of look and feel...
Fortunately Camino has the menu bar and tabbed browsing, which are the my basic requirements for use.
-Pie
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Camino is Fastest... but I Like Safari
I like Camino too, but I still use Safari because Camino is not as responsive to the mouse-click or key-sequence on my 600 MHz iMac (ie, changing tabs, pulling down menus, etc).
Camino is Fastest... but I Like Safari
You can make such bookmark collections in Camino. When you hit Apple+D to create a new bookmark there is a checkbox in the dialogue called "Bookmark all tabs". Check this one and you have your single-click-instant-opening-of-a-bunch-of-tabs magic!
Camino is Fastest... but I Like Safari
Thanks!
Fan of the FireFox
I'm a big fan of the firefox plugins.
OmniWeb5 all the way...
Still the most powerful, most innovative and, by far and away, the most Mac-like of all the browsers. Using anything else afterwards is just an exercise in frustration.
OmniWeb5 all the way...
i've been trying omniweb as my main browser for a couple of weeks now that it uses the same engine as Safari, it's become a definitely viable alternative. To my surprise I haven't switched back to Safari yet :)
Is it just me?
Or does Firefox not seem to be very responsive or even useful under OS X? Safari seems to do what I need, works quickly and handles pop-ups. I'm not sure why I need another browser. Am I missing something?
Is it just me?
It's just you. ;)
perhaps ;)
i think, safari lacks a lot of advanced features. the handling of cookies sucks. filtering rules are missing. extensions a rare and add only basic features brothers like opera or firefox already have in their default configuration.
wow...
people who answered IE are just out of their mind... :)
I like Firefox, but it crashes too much on my machine
I used to use Mozilla with Tabbrowser Extensions (which slowed down and destabilized Mozilla). Then Firefox came along, so I gave up Moz/TE for the speed and better stability. Firefox's ability to block images from specified servers seemed to make it superior to Safari until I learned that ads can be blocked in basically all browsers with the right userContent.css file. Now the choice is between Firefox and Safari. Firefox has Type Ahead Find (which I adore), but it seems more crash-prone since version ~0.8. It often crashes under multiple tabs when dialog boxes come up. So now I mostly use the somewhat stabler Safari, though I usually run Gmail in Firefox.
OmniWeb 5 - the best there is!
No other browser comes even close to OW's tabs, workspaces, shortcuts, ad blocking, site prefs, blablabla... :-) I could go on forever!
Shiira!
I use Shiira, it really is worth checking out, At first it looks nice (if you have been a Safari user) because it just takes all the bookmarks out of safari and plants them in Shiira, which you can also turn of in the preferences, Shiira is a bit faster with loading pages most of the time, and it got more customization (theme's), it also has more search engines (you can add more yourself) it uses a smaller font in the bookmarks bar to fit more bookmarks in it, And it has History/Bookmark/Download search! (in a Sidebar!!) and more... it just great
Safari? Why???
I am utterly mystified by Safari's popularity. I'm still waiting for them to release a version that has a feature set as useful as IE already had 6 years ago. |
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