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It's that time again -- Browser wars #8. Which web browser is your current favorite?
1/1: It's that time again -- Browser wars #8. Which web browser is your current favorite?
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x via Parallels
IE for Windows via Parallels?
I don't see why anyone would do that... and while you're at it, why not any browser through Parallels or VNC?
x via Parallels
I have "any browser through Parallels" as an option. I didn't include VNC because that requires two machines; using Parallels is just another app on the same machine.
x via Parallels
The reason is NOT that someone WANTS to use IE 5/6/7/+; but rather that some sites demand it. Any site that uses Active-X controls must be run in a Win & IE environment.
It's Beyond Me
Well, the question asks "current favorite".....
It would choose Safari if...
it had similar features I use in FireFox:
It would choose Safari if...
There might be no replacement for FireBug (though the DOM inspector and Drosera [from the WebKit nightlies] are pretty durn good), but AcidSearch is a more than capable replacement for Firefox's multiple search engine feature.
It lets you define new search engines with their own keyboard shortcuts and address bar keywords, and (my favorite feature), also lets you make search groups (also with custom shortcuts). I have one set up to search for album art which searches Amazon, WalMart, Google Images, and Yahoo Images in different tabs, with a single keystroke. It is very nice, and worth checking out (especially if you hate Firefox's looks/font rendering/speed as much as I do).
It would choose Safari if...
Regarding Firefox, there is NO substitute for the Foxmarks Bookmarks synchronizer either. The Firefox extension allows users to automatically synchronize bookmarks on multiple computers, as well as access favorite web pages on any computer, anytime. If only there was a way for Safari to take advantage of Foxmarks ... I'd use Safari a whole lot more. In fact, there are a number of Firefox extensions that I use daily:
Speed up Firefox
I too didn't use Firefox because of how slow it was, but these tweaks make it as fast as Safari, so now it's my browser of choice.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1299854/posts I would you Safari, but there are too many websites it just chokes on.
Speed up Firefox
Yikes. Aside from the untrustworthy host site, the actual suggestions posted there are years out of date and inaccurate. For starters, maxrequests has a hard limit at 8. And setting initialpaint.delay to 0 can lead to LONGER total load times (although this issue is probably less common on a new C2D CPU).
Try linking to a better source for much better information.
Safari
For me it's indeed Safari. With the plug-ins SafariStand (mainly for Quicksearches right from the Addressbar) and PithHelmet (mainly to get rid of ads and pop-unders etc).
Firefox has unfortunate problems.
As a long-time supporter of the Mozilla project (I've followed it since its inception in 1998) and long-time Mozilla and Firefox user on Windows, I am quite disappointed with the lack of quality of Firefox on the OS X platform, as well as the lack of some features present in Safari.
Firefox has unfortunate problems.
This post sums up my feelings on the matter better than I could. I use Bon Echo for those 10% of the sites that have problems with Safari (mainly my online banking & PayPal accounts)...it's a FireFox build optimized for my G5 processor and I really like some of the extensions and tools available for it. But, in the end, Safari is prettier, faster and you can't beat the integration with Cocoa apps & AppleScript.
Firefox has unfortunate problems.
Camino has actually improved a lot in the past year. Not sure where you have been looking for it. www.caminobrowser.org
Firefox has unfortunate problems.
He probably uses the stable releases. I've been using Camino nightlies and love it! I used to have several Camino plugins installed but it has grown rapidly and I don't need any of those plugins anymore. The only helper app that I use is CaminoKnight, which updates Camino to the latest nightly automatically.
Safari's great and all...
and I voted for it, as I use it the most. But I have high hopes for Shiira and Sunrise Browser. If they were a bit more feature rich, I'd switch right now.
Safari's great and all...
I cannot agree with this comment more. Safari is clean and has just what you need to get the job done.
Safari's great and all...
OK, but on my box I cannot view videos -- I do have QT 7.1.6 and have installed Fkip4MacWMV. Also when opening several windows it slows down considerably. Finally some pages (viewable with other browsers) are just blank!
WebKit
I use webkit all the time. It has stability issues, but the DOM inspector is really cool.
Opera for sure.
No other browser has enough features for heavy browsing, and few other browsers are as fast.
OmniWeb ...
... rocks hard! Seriously! I originally registered it back in the 4.x days and never really used it. But since the 5.x Webkit incarnations I'm addicted! Safari can't keep up, even with Saft installed (which will die in Leopard, I guess ...).
OmniWeb!
I use OmniWeb because it renders the page beautifully - Firefox's rendering is ugly! And OmniWeb is more feature rich than Safari. The tab system is better for lots of simultaneous sites open - I currently have 36! the current version is very stable. There's a reason its the only browser that costs money: because its the only one worth anything! That's a slight exaggeration: I like Safari too.
Safari spellcheck and applescript
Two I use Safari.
RSS and General Feel
For the record, I prefer the Gecko engine over KHTML, and have generally found it to be more compatible, though I can't remember the last time Safari has given me a problem.
Safari + Saft + SafariStand
Safari with Saft and SafariStand is absolutely unbeatable. OmniWeb comes really really close, but it seems to be missing nice options like downloading files to folders organised by date. Safari is just so nice, slick and elegant, and those plugins extend it to a powerful workhorse. Add Inquisitor, and searching gets better too. At this point, there's no way I can outright switch to anything else.
OmniWeb!
OmniWeb is the only choice for me, nothing else comes close to it imho.
All browsers suck
I don't think there is one good browser, if you force me to vote then I'll say Safari but I HAVE to use Opera, Firefox and Camino on a daily basis and since I use Linux at work and Mac OS X at home I'm often using Opera because Firefox sucks on the Mac (yet lots of people will vote for it, see below)
All browsers suck
Sounds like you answered your own question.
definately opera
At any given time I have Ubuntu Linux, Windows Vista and the OSX 10.4.9 running on my macbook. Opera is the ONLY browser I've found that is both fast, feature rich, and I can share the same bookmark/settings files for all 3. Definately a nice piece of work.
Three in common use
Camino works best for me when filing cases with the US District Court system - they expect IE 7 or Netscape on a Windows box.
Firefox works best with Audible and a number of aggregator sites as well as Westlaw and Lexis (proprietary legal databases). Everything else, Safari is fast and reliable. I even like the .pdf integration for my legal filings - I can read the other side's responses without the two-step process (download then open) and, as the courts only give one free copy of a pleading away I'd have to pay $0.08/pg to re-download if I had an aborted / corrupted file - and that doesn't happen with the way Safari and the Fed Courts interact.... I don't much like Safari's bookmark editing features (what editing features?) - but I use Bookdog from http://www.sheepsystems.com to handle the bookmarks in all three browsers. I use Opera exclusively on the XP box I have to use from time to time.
Almost NetNewsWire
Safari gets my vote. It's so easy & intuitive for browsing, exactly as a Mac app should be. And while I love to "Pimp My Safari", having to go find stuff to configure the app as I wish — like Firefox requires — isn't so fun. Saft is the one add-on I've found that I can't live without. (A bunch of us nagged my company's IT guy until he let us put it on our work machines.)
Difficult...
I would go with Firefox except that it is too unreliable at displaying web pages. Many are fine, some are pathetic. cnn.com, for example, is way wrong. So I am sticking with Safari for now.
i have none_
They all lack certain options and qualities of the old "world browsers"
Camino is more versatile than Safari
Camino is as fast as Safari and works better with (ugh!) Microsoft-based intranet sites I need to login to that Safari can never seem to get to work. I've also has problems with Safari at other websites that require logins--banking, etc. Although it lacks private browsing, which I never use anyway, Camino seems to have all the features of Safari i commonly use, most importantly remembering passwords and autofill. So for me Camino is the chioce until Safari works better with the intranet sites I need to visit.
Safari vs Firefox
I used to use the "G5 optimized version" of firefox....then my debit card number was stolen... I don't know if it was b/c of firefox or not, but I switched back to Safari and never looked back....I also remember reading a hint, I think It was on this site, that said all "Firefox stored passwords" were not encrypted and anyone using your machine could easily look them up.
Please Add SeaMonkey Next Time...
Please Add *SeaMonkey* to the next Poll.
And Find It! Keep It!
Still in beta, but the only browser which lets you save content to a database (and works when WebArchives don't). Beta at http://www.ansemond.com
Please Add SeaMonkey Next Time...
I agree, SeaMonkey is in my opinion, the best browser to date. Since the inception of the internet, I have used every single browser developed to run on the Mac platform.
Firefox... but may be ready for a switch
I've been using Firefox for several months now, but after my Mac crashing 5 times in the last three days, I may be ready for a switch. Still trying to isolate the reasons, but each time, I've been using Firefox 2.0.
Primarily Safari; Secondary Firefox
I use Safari as my primary browser:
Primarily Safari; Secondary Firefox
Which sites do not work right for Firefox? I have the opposite problem, lots of web pages do not load properly in Safari & OmniWeb, which drives me back to Firefox.
Should have had..
Webkit Nightly Build as a separate option. Sure, it's Safari, but there's a lot of functionality in the nightly builds that aren't available in Safari using the system version of the Webkit.
"Favorite" implies that I like one of them.
Hm. Doesn't seem to be an option for, "They all suck." I use a combination of Firefox (for features and extensibility) and Safari (for stability and standards-compliant page rendering), but I can't say that I actually like either of them, or any of the others.
Safari ... for now
I would love to use Camino, which is in my experience faster and smoother than Safari, but for two things:
None of the above
Heh... was going to post my whole standard rant, but then I discovered I already posted it, in Browser Wars #5. Opinion largely unchanged since then - still "none of the above", as they dropped IE development while it was still crashey, but half my safari complaints are still true (a few safari add-ons have nixed some of the more egregious problems since then, like not getting a confirmation dialog when closing a window with multiple tabs open.) Haven't tried FF 2 yet, though, if the performance is up to snuff that could be the one. But barring that, my opinion is, we haven't got an adequate browser for OS X yet... we're closer than we were, but until we get something like IE's multi-page web archives and advanced download management capabilities in a more up-to-date browser, I remain cantankerous.
Safari & Firefox Fight for 2nd
Though i've often become frustrated with the lack of a good way to do interactive ad/content blocking, i still use Camino 90% of the time.
Why Camino is better
Just to fan the flames…
Safari!
I would use firefox if it was as fast as Safari and integrated in OS X.
Lynx
I made Lynx my default browser on OS X. I use Safari and Firefox too, but Lynx leaves all the GUI browsers in the dust.
For Aqua and Darwin in Tiger (10.4.9)
For Aqua, I use Safari for RSS and video content; Camino for just about everything else. For Darwin, I use Links for frames support and Lynx for the rest.
Safari, by a nose
With the addition of Saft, Safari is my main browser. This setup has some really nice features:
Overall, its good support for OS X technologies gives it the edge.
Firefox
It has to be Firefox, it is not perfect yet but it is the only one that works in MacOS X
I use it on servers at work...
... and it works great. I submitted the instructions on how to make your Mac OS X Server bind dns server use OpenDNS, and OpenDNS published it.
http://www.opendns.com/start/mac_os_x_server.php Our users love it!
Rather late, but...
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