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Why use Firefox or Camino instead of Safari?
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<blockquote data-quote="Zoolook" data-source="post: 530393" data-attributes="member: 21101"><p>I disagree, actually it is a lot like IE in some ways. IE is not a bad browser anyway, all you need to do is enable pop-up blocking, disable Active X and refrain from downloading any tool bars, and it'll do the job as well as any open source browser. Oh and I used Firefox on Windows since the Firebird 0.3 days so I did avoid it, but I think saying it is a bad browser is like saying WinXP is a 'bad' OS; just an opinion and an ill-educated one at that.</p><p></p><p>I really want to love Safari, but I genuinely don't think it is the best browser, feature for feature, on the Mac. Firefox may look a teeny weeny bit ugly (although it takes about 9 seconds to download a theme to cover 90% of the cracks), so there is always Camino, which launches just as quick as Safari, still looks great, uses keychain and blocks ads automatically with no configuration - plus is accepted by any ite that accepts Firefox. Even Opera offers marginally more compatibility and add-ons than Safari. One should probably note that it is not really in Apple's best interest to distribute a browser that can be easily modded to ignore ads and spam.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zoolook, post: 530393, member: 21101"] I disagree, actually it is a lot like IE in some ways. IE is not a bad browser anyway, all you need to do is enable pop-up blocking, disable Active X and refrain from downloading any tool bars, and it'll do the job as well as any open source browser. Oh and I used Firefox on Windows since the Firebird 0.3 days so I did avoid it, but I think saying it is a bad browser is like saying WinXP is a 'bad' OS; just an opinion and an ill-educated one at that. I really want to love Safari, but I genuinely don't think it is the best browser, feature for feature, on the Mac. Firefox may look a teeny weeny bit ugly (although it takes about 9 seconds to download a theme to cover 90% of the cracks), so there is always Camino, which launches just as quick as Safari, still looks great, uses keychain and blocks ads automatically with no configuration - plus is accepted by any ite that accepts Firefox. Even Opera offers marginally more compatibility and add-ons than Safari. One should probably note that it is not really in Apple's best interest to distribute a browser that can be easily modded to ignore ads and spam. [/QUOTE]
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