so what makes other browsers better than Safari? Personally, I don't like the lack of RSS feeds on Firefox and Camino
You're kidding right? FF and Camino handle RSS feeds, and did so way before Safari, and IMO, significantly better than Safari.
I think Safari is a decent browser. I only really have 3 things against it, compared to Firefox.
- I don't like the way it handles tabs. In FF (and Camino) the options for opening new links in tabs, from emails or other web pages, seems more flexible. This just might be down to me getting used to a particular system, but Safari lacks options here for me
- I have issues with Safari's pop-up blocking feature. You simply cannot have a pop-up blocker that does not have an easily manageable exception list. Both FF and Camino have this, and have had it since version 0.1 or so. It's incredible that Apple have not included it, even in version 3
- Ad blocking. Completely absent on Safari, and the useless InputManager crashing Safariblock is impossible to keep up to date (Adblock for FF already has lists and is easy to add to) and Pithhelmet requires an engineering degree to get to work. Even Camino's 'hidden' adblock software works way better than Safariblock.
Other than that, its a good browser. If you don't like Firefox's lauch speed, try camino - it does 2 bounces, compared to Safari's one bounce and Firefox's 5 bounces (on my system). ;D