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    Firefox or Safari?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Teacher, Oct 14, 2007.

  1. CountAltec

    CountAltec Notebook Guru

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    Well, looks like I will be giving Safari 3 a shot.
     
  2. taelrak

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    lol that was fast.

    Make sure you try out the sneak peeks:
    http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/download/sneakypeek/

    These fix a ton of problems from the latest release, as well as integrating the latest Apple webkit betas.

    Edit: a few notes about the poll suggestion
    There actually have been over half a dozen browser polls in this forum, some listing just the big 3 and others listing everything that was mentioned here.

    Really though, the small population of people who read the Apple forum, who actually have informed opinions on all of the poll items (i.e. actually used all of them), and who actually bother to answer the poll makes it pretty useless :p
     
  3. graf1k

    graf1k Notebook Geek

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    When I got my Macbook Pro I downloaded Firefox right away without giving Safari much of a chance, mostly because I've been using FF for so long and am just more comfortable with it. That said, I've noticed it freezes quite a bit on at least my Mac more than it ever did on PCs for me. That, and it just doesn't seem as fast. I agree with earlier posts that FF 2.0 seems to function worse than previous versions. I'll give the optimized FF a try and at the same time give Camino a spin and give Safari a shot. I'm not married to any browser and most features that made me to go to FF in the first place seem to be found in any web browser you can find these days. I do like the FF extensions though, if only for Adblock + Filterset.G and NoScript.
     
  4. ShaggyRS6

    ShaggyRS6 Notebook Consultant

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    Firefox is too buggy for me. Camino was a great comprimise but now I am loving Omni. I would urge those that have not tried to give it a go. its free for 30 days.
     
  5. Sam

    Sam Notebook Virtuoso

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    Camino is a really nice browser. I love its icon too, very nice ;).
     
  6. myshkin

    myshkin Notebook Consultant

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    I really disliked omni when i tried it. It has nothing to offer over other browsers that are free
     
  7. Sam

    Sam Notebook Virtuoso

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    I just tried OmniWeb...its not bad. The tab window is cool...but other than that not too much. I might have used it as a secondary browser, if only it didn't cost $15 :mad:! :p
     
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