Firefox, Safari, or other?

The right-click "use as desktop" is a feature of Safari 3, so it's not available in Safari 2.

The image is saved as "Safari Desktop Picture" in /Users/.../Library/Safari

 

Yes you can...

Its not necessary to save it onto the Desktop. Right click the image and the option to Use Image as Desktop Picture is there.

Are you using Safari 2? I'm not sure, but Safari 2 may not have that feature. Safari 3 Beta is available, its what I'm using and that feature is certainly available.

 

is it just the ALL windows user in me or is it that i like the brushed metal look?

 

All of the above?

I run Safari / Firefox / Camino all at once. Generally I like Camino most though it annoys me by redirecting RSS feeds to Safari - thats just weird. Firefox is the ugly duckling of the three but hopefully in version 3.0 it will look nicer.

Safari has a nice feel to it, but many quirks - some web pages just don't work with Safari. I'd blame that on the pages except that they do work with Firefox so using crappy IE-centric webdesign as an excuse is out. Safari 3 is just quirky. It's still beta but it also has major memory leaks, best to restart it every once in a while. I had it gobbling up close to 500MB of RAM at some point... unacceptable for a web browser.

I'll use Camino or Safari until they show one of their quirks/bugs, then switch to Firefox for ugly-but-reliable operation.

Definitely trying Shiiro next, thanks for the tip. Maybe I'll add it to the stable. What else do I have 4GB RAM for?

I need something that syncs the bookmarks between all of these now

 

I actually have a question as well. Do you all keep all these on your computers or do you choose one. I would prefer choosing just one (I originally just had camino on my computer) but now with the news that camino can't open certain pages I've redownloaded Safari and Firefox (which i didn't want)

ps. almost certainly my imagination but the moment i installed safari I felt my Camino running slower

 

I am running firefox without any instability problems. I guess I don't know how to crash my browser.

 

I have every one of the browsers listed installed (safari 3, camino nightly, minefield nightly, shiira 2.2, omniweb 5.6 alpha), although now I'm primarily using omniweb and shiira for my daily browsing.

As for syncing bookmarks, shiira automatically does that for safari and camino. The rest have decent import/export features. omniweb does it with omninet bookmarks. And they all allow synching to .Mac (except firefox).

 

When I mainly used a Mac, I had Safari, Firefox, Camino, Opera, & Shirra all installed on my machine. I mainly used Firefox and Shiira. It's a lot harder to find that one really good browser for OSX. They all leave something to be desired.

Now that I'm back on Windows, I have IE and Firefox. I only use Firefox. IE only gets opened up to run Windows updates.

 

A quick question...

are there any browsers that support ActiveX controls?

 

I doubt it. Maybe something might be worked out through Firefox in the future through an extension...but...probably not.

 

Agreed. I wouldn't hold my breath on that one.

Considering that Active X controls have been one the the biggest security holes for Internet Explorer, it's probably better this way.

**update**

I did a little digging and found there are some independent projects for getting Active X controls running through Firefox. They don't seem too reliable. I wouldn't try them myself.

If you're interested, Google it.