I switch on and off between Safari and FF. I used Safari on my G5, then I switched to my HP laptop for a bit (for school purposes), so now that I have my MBP I'm used to both. Most of the time I just use FF because it's my default browser and I'm used to it.
Ok I am a new mac user but i am bery familiar with Firefox which i use all the time. my complaints of firefox have been that web videos are always choppy, load up time for browser is slow and page load times are slow imho. I just stmbled onto this new browser and you need to really try it. load time is very fast, web videos on cnn.com etc all play fluid and fast, page load times are insanely fast compared to others ive tried and the thing is like 2 megs in size. Let me know what you guys think
Mac Specs: 2.33Ghz Core2Duo MacBook Pro /// 2.2Ghz Core2Duo MacBook
It's an unfortunate thing that we can only vote once. Right now I'm using several browsers to find my favorite. After over two weeks now, I have found FireFox and Opera to be about equal, although I like FireFox better, mainly because I've used it for so long on the Windows platform. Safari is just a touch behind FireFox, Opera, and OmniWeb for a couple reasons - it doesn't render the website that manages my pay, it doesn't allow me to move the floating windows on my bank website, and it doesn't display the hit counter on my website properly. Unfortunately, FireFox consistently uses 70-90MB of RAM while running, in contrast to 50 for Safari, and only 30 for SunriseBrowser.
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Mac Specs: MacBook 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1 GB RAM, 80GB Hard Drive, 80GB Video iPod (Black)
On the PC I use Firefox almost exclusively, only opening Internet Explorer for pages which don't work with Firefox, which is very few these days.
On the Mac I am still undecided. When I first got my MacBook I downloaded FF immediately expecting much the same as the PC version, but I was a bit disappointed. FF was slow to load up, the interface looked a bit Windows-ish (ugh), and it crashes regularly on MySpace (this probably has something to do with peoples poor coding. I tried Opera, Camino, Safari and OmniWeb and settled on Camino for about a month. However, there were some things such as flash sites which Camino has trouble displaying and it was just getting annoying, so recently I have moved over to Safari.
Although, I am not to sure about Safari now...on the university network it keeps losing its connection. This maybe the uni network, or it maybe Safari, I don't know yet.
So Safari for now. Also, I love Safari's smooth scrolling, FF's scrolling just annoys me!
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Safari. I like it. Firefox sometimes, for stuff i want to be secure and anonymous. I still (cringe, don't laugh) use Netscape as my mail client. i have a lot of addresses and saved messages and stuff.
Mac Specs: 2.5GHz 17" MacBook Pro Core2 Duo - 4GB DDR2 SDRAM - 250GB HDD - NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 512MB VRAM
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I use Webkit nightlies except when I need Adobe and Java plugins to work properly. In those cases, I use regular Safari. I would use Safari all the time, but it does not render pages as accurately as the more recent Webkit nightlies do (ignoring styling on buttons being my primary peeve with Safari). If Firefox ever gets its zoom button to work like Safari's does (change window size to be just as big as it needs to accomodate a webpage), I'll switch to that in a heartbeat though; the extensions are nice, as is the pipelining.
I'd like to follow up on this by saying that I was mistaken on the Java thing. The Java stuff works in Webkit perfectly, so the only thing standing in my way was the Adobe Reader plugin. I circumvented this by turning it off and having Preview do my Internet PDF viewing plugin-ness. I actually like it a lot better this way since Preview is really fast and uses a very tiny fraction of the resources Adobe Reader does. So... someone else should test Webkit nightlies and see what they think. You'll be using a superior product to Safari and be helping out the development team that works hard to make successive Safari versions better!
(Just keep in mind that every time you install a new browser on OS X, you usually have to reinstall the Adobe Flash Player plugin.)
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Mac Specs: MacBook 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1 GB RAM, 80GB Hard Drive, 80GB Video iPod (Black)
Just started using Bon Echo. It is basically a Firefox mod ironing out all the little bugs which made me despise using Firefox on the Mac. I am sure it renders pages slightly faster than Firefox as well. Sorry Safari but the Firefox has reeled me back in!
Mac Specs: 15.4" macbook pro core 2 duo, 2.16ghz, 2gb ram, 160gb hdd. iPod nano 8gb. iPod Photo 20gb.
I use Safari, however am forced to occasionally switch to firefox because of a small issue in Safari.
I'm 17, and a myspace user, and Safari fulfills all of my browsing requirements, except sometimes I'll open a myspace profile in safari, and safari struggles SO hard to view it that if you scroll down the web page, allow a 2 second delay before any movement will occur. After a short time, the fans on my MacBook Pro then start to get very loud..
If I exit safari, the fans return to normal, and if I then open the same myspace profile in Firefox, everything runs 100% smoothly..
Perhaps I should post this issue in it's own forum to see who else experiences it?
Firefox all the way.
I tried tweaking Safari with Saft and other plugins to extend the functionality, but there are sites that Safari just will not render properly.
The problem lies in WebKit, mostly.
For those that come from Linux/*BSD - you know that Safari uses the same code base as Konquerer (Apple even contributed its KHTML tweaks/customizations back to the KDE community) and it just isn't ideal in all situations.
When WebKit catches up to other browsers and has the extendability of Firefox, I might reconsider...
If it wasn't for the mouse gestures in Opera, I would probably switch to FireFox. While Opera worked flawlessly for me on Windows, it does crash on OSX from time to time.
