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fastfood15

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So today i switched from FireFox to Camino, just to try it out. (did anyone else notice that firefox got alot uglier with 2.0?)

Any way, post your browser of choice and why! Any you hate? Any completely random opinons on browsers?!?
 
been using safari most of the time, but tried out opera 9.02 for mac, which eventually started having issues, so i dumped that and just started using camino. very similar to safari, except for a bit more ad blocking power, and a few webpages that won't load correctly (which is a bit odd, because the same page loads fine in safari). other than that i really dig camino.
 
I mostly always use Safari, but swtich to FireFox 1.5 for certain pages that only work with IE or FireFox. I like how Safari looks but it has problems with loading some pages quickly. Websites like MySpace and FaceBook seems to take time loading in Safari compared to IE. Sometimes some images can't be displayed in the browser without hitting refresh a couple of times.
 
Safari, but it has its quirks....like slow loading eBay...and categories on demonoid.com taking a long time to update the sub-catagories (supposed to be instant.as opposed to 10 seconds or so...)

I just can't get used to FF on the Mac....haven't tried any other browsers...but I'm happy with Safari, so I'm not going to.
 
Firefox 1.5 with a bunch of userscripts and extensions. With Uno and GrApple, it looks and acts just like a Mac app, so I'm happy. My favorite browser is Shiira 2 because of its phenomenal design (it's the future of web browsing, and what Firefox will hopefully be in the distant future) but it's mising so much of the stuff I require for web browsing and development that I don't use it full time. If you currently use Safari, check out the Shiira 2 Beta. You won't be disappointed.
 
CEpeep said:
Firefox 1.5 with a bunch of userscripts and extensions. With Uno and GrApple, it looks and acts just like a Mac app, so I'm happy. My favorite browser is Shiira 2 because of its phenomenal design (it's the future of web browsing, and what Firefox will hopefully be in the distant future) but it's mising so much of the stuff I require for web browsing and development that I don't use it full time. If you currently use Safari, check out the Shiira 2 Beta. You won't be disappointed.
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looks interesting.
Mind elaborating on what it's missing?
 
4b5eN+EE said:
looks interesting.
Mind elaborating on what it's missing?
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No real ad-blocking of any sort (well, it has popup blocking, but that's it), no session saving, no DOM Inspector, no userscripts (Greasemonkey or otherwise), and no plugins or extensions in general. It's based on the WebKit rendering engine just like Safari and supports all of the stock Safari features though, which is why I recommended it to anyone who uses Safari.
 
Cowcaster88 said:
I mostly always use Safari, but swtich to FireFox 1.5 for certain pages that only work with IE or FireFox. I like how Safari looks but it has problems with loading some pages quickly. Websites like MySpace and FaceBook seems to take time loading in Safari compared to IE. Sometimes some images can't be displayed in the browser without hitting refresh a couple of times.
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ditto. Though i'll use Opera on my PC.
 
Black Morty Rackham said:
OmniWeb 5.5

With a little luck, it's what Shiira will become when it grows up. :)
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I used OmniWeb for a while but it's got a TON of issues. There's a ton of things I love about it but eventually I got tired of it's short comings and switched back to Safari/FF. I must say, Safari 3.0 fills all the missing gaps of Safari 2.0 and then some ;) Once Leopard comes out there will be absolutely no need for any other browser :D (I promise :p)
 
Safari with SafariStand and a hack that loads the page as it is being downloaded (no 4 second delay or whatever it is).

I use Camino for pages that aren't playing nice with Safari, which is a rare occurence.
 
CEpeep said:
Firefox 1.5 with a bunch of userscripts and extensions. With Uno and GrApple, it looks and acts just like a Mac app, so I'm happy.
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After reading your quote, I looked into UNO and GrApple. I have to say that I like FireFox
alot more now. Makes it look so much more cleaner. What are some other good userscripts and extensions you'd suggest?

synergyo1 said:
Safari with SafariStand and a hack that loads the page as it is being downloaded (no 4 second delay or whatever it is).
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Is this hack you speak of that difficult? And does it allow you to just change the timing, instead of being at 4 secs..
 
Cowcaster88 said:
Is this hack you speak of that difficult? And does it allow you to just change the timing, instead of being at 4 secs..
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Not really. You can download this if you don't feel like activating the Safari debug menu.
 
supergper said:
I used OmniWeb for a while but it's got a TON of issues. There's a ton of things I love about it but eventually I got tired of it's short comings and switched back to Safari/FF. I must say, Safari 3.0 fills all the missing gaps of Safari 2.0 and then some ;) Once Leopard comes out there will be absolutely no need for any other browser :D (I promise :p)
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Have you tried OW5.5? It's based on a much newer version of Webkit or Webcore or whatever it's called. Faster than Safari, in my opinion.
 
Black Morty Rackham said:
Have you tried OW5.5? It's based on a much newer version of Webkit or Webcore or whatever it's called. Faster than Safari, in my opinion.
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yeah, I have. My issues with Omniweb wasn't so much with speed and such, but rather compatibility issues. One particular was an Ajax based online slideshow management software that I use would not work with OW but worked flawlessly with Safari (go figure that one :confused: ) and FF, I ran into several things like that so I just went back to Safari.
 
I use Camino here as well. It is fantastic! I find it to be a hybrid of Safari and Firefox of sorts.
 
Zok said:
I use Camino here as well. It is fantastic! I find it to be a hybrid of Safari and Firefox of sorts.
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Well, Camino is a hybrid of Firefox but has nothing to do with Safari. It may have some of the same features but nothing under the hood is the same. Camino is the OS X port of Firefox, so if you're using Firefox and have yet to try Camino you ought to give it a try cause it does do most things better than FF on OS X.
 
Camino is based on Gecko based on Mozilla, it's not "Firefox" in any way shape or form. Too many people think "Firefox" when they think about Gecko anymore, and it's simply not the case. It's a different browser based on the same rendering engine, and that's about where the similarities end.

I run an Intel Core Duo (I have a Core 2 Duo, actually) optimized build of 1.0.3 and it's never crashed on my 20" iMac - can't say that about Safari and Safari is the OS native browser, go figure.

Camino is faster, renders better, uses less RAM resources; it's the one I trust nowadays next to Opera on occasion.

Just my $.02...
 
Safari near exclusively.

Firefox for those few websites that don't work in Safari (I'm talking about YOU, SonicWall!)


Other than that I have no real need for anything else. I'm not a huge web monkey so it's not that big a deal for me.

Hell, I still even try to use WebExplorer under OS/2.
 
Safari has always been the best browser for me. I would like Camino or Firefox to work better, be faster and more integrated than Safari, but it's just not the case.
 
six_storm said:
Safari has always been the best browser for me. I would like Camino or Firefox to work better, be faster and more integrated than Safari, but it's just not the case.
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Same here. I like Opera, Camino, and FF for Mac but don't end up using any of them very often. I always end up in Safari. It works well enough for me.
 
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