Which web browser do you use?

[MancmacUK]

Camino is my preferred browser, but I do need to use Safari for a couple of websites for compatibility where some text disappears, or some text boxes are extremely small.

 

[Ben Bledsoe]

I use Safari 5.0.5 (5533.21.1).....but wats this (5533.21.1) ?? dont understand
I also use firefox 3.6.16 but sometimes it gives crash reports

 

[vansmith]

The number in the brackets is the version of WebKit that Safari is using. You can think of WebKit as the part of the browser that does all the hard work rendering pages.

 

[chalegut]

Chrome is easy the fastest browser I have used for macs. after Chrome comes safari but I prefer the extensions from Chrome as well.

 

[twitchymike@mac]

I bet nobody thought of Dictionary as a browser. It comes second to Safari. Anything wiki is perfect for that - anything scientific, historic, celebrities... definitions... no ads in there - just info you want. Swift browse

 

[m47th3w]

Firefox is what I use most of the time even though Safari has some advantages (I like the top sites feature). The Alexa rating cant' be installed onto Safari as far as I know which is a deal breaker. Kind of like a perfect woman that has everything you want except for that one feature that she must have or not have, depending.

 

[twitchymike@mac]

I don't want to use anything other than Safari, because it is native, and 64-bit.

I like applications, and am sick of the world revolving around html, as it's little cute adverts and beeps and flash animations to grab your attention and your bandwidth. My cloud is on my raw magnetic platters.

What I don't like is being asked if I'm SURE I want to send a form again!?!?!? in Safari. That's too much overhead to have to tap the enter key once again, before making any progress... why can't we have an option to set that to auto?

 

[Jeff Dias]

I use Google Chrome, hard to say why, I like safari but I think sometimes it is not agile.

 

[keysoftheraw]

Chrome is the best browser on OS X right now I feel.

 

[darrylyoung]

I was just about to post a thread like this. It would be interesting to see that poll reset (as the thread is a year old). I've always used Chrome on my Mac but the latest version (on 10.7) doesn't seem stable. For the first time I've been seeing the "Aw, snap" page a lot of times. I did a clean install of 10.7 and have no Chrome extensions. I'm hoping that there's an update soon to sort this.

I've never really used Safari for my browsing but I gave 5.1 a go after installing Lion. It seems really quick and I think it handles downloads much better than Chrome - I hate Chrome's download bar that pops up. Safari has the neat little progress bar in the top right which can auto-clear. The only thing stopping me using Safari all the time is the fact that I'm so used to Chrome that it just looks too boring and... grey.

How does Safari 5.1 stand against Chrome 12? I know Chrome was meant to have the edge with regard to JavaScript but the articles saying this (that I've read) are quite old so I'm wondering if Chrome really has the edge still. As a web developer, I've got many browsers installed but other than for testing sites I've never given Firefox 5 a go either.

 

[dtravis7]

I use Safari 5.1 exclusively now. As far as the Java and whatever speed tests, FF here is the fastest in Sun Spider, but to be honest, Chrome and Safari are all so close, it really does not make that much difference. A few milliseconds here and there won't even be noticeably faster or slower in real use.

I love Safari 5.1 and the way it works and the interface. To me with scores on tests so close is a much bigger deal.


Sun Spider Java Test:

306.1ms +/- 0.4% - Safari 5.1
303.4ms +/- 0.8% - Firefox 5.0.1
314.7ms +/- 1.9% - Google Chrome 12.0.742.100
352.7ms +/- 0.6% - Opera 11.50

Those are on the iMac in my Specs.

 

[Adrianbachmann]

I have all 5 of them and all of them have good things and bad things. [Safari,Opera,Google Chrome,Camino,Firefox]

 

[LionKing]

I have more trouble with ads sneaking by "Block Popups" because they use scripts and there are so many sites that won't run without them. I use FF almost exclusively and have to put up with that stuff as being an evil of living in a sales-oriented world.

I only use Safari with 1 banking site because the site refuses to run under FF due to I have so much stuff turned off with it. I have always found Safari to be way too slow.

 

[Rokitsynth]

What Internet Browser do you use?

Not sure if this has already been posted, but I think it would be interesting to see what internet browser(s) everyone here uses. Also if you could post why you use it, that would be incredible!

For me, I use a mix of Safari and Chrome. I love Safari's full screen mode, but Chrome's speed is untouchable.

 

[bobtomay]

Yep, we do. Merged with our existing thread.

 

[twocreeks]

So which do you use and why?

Safari and keep FF and Opera and Chrome
iPhone Safari and Opera mini

Safari, especially on the phone is so well integrated, nothing else comes close. Really cool is that the bookmarks are synched via mobile.me including the evernote/bit.ly/facebook/tiny.cc sidebar tools.

Opera mini on my phone is very fast though, so sometimes I use that for fast stuff.

 

[Filterlab]

Until 10.7 I've always used Camino as I find it to be the most fuss free and flannel-less browser around. No daft graphics, no absurd animations and no daftness.

However, I have just moved over to Safari. I can't believe how astonishingly fast it is! It has completely blown me away, so much so I hang on to my other browsers purely for testing websites that I've built or fiddled with.

 

[jasonmflynn]

I use Safari because I just prefer the interface. It's most pleasant for long hours of use, in my opinion. That said, I do occasionally use Firefox when I'm doing website work.

 

[johnsankey]

what browser prints what you see on screen?

Hope this is a productive place to ask this:

Safari doesn't have an option to print what you see on the screen, like IE did on WinMe at least. Go to Recent Activity | Ottawa Public Library | BiblioCommons for an example and look at the print preview. The only option is to hit screen grab, crop with an image processor, then print that, of course at lousy resolution.

Is there a browser for OS 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) that will print what you see without the kind of kludge normally associated with Linux?

 

[blakemoore945]

Firefox was my first love. I'm actually getting a Firefox logo tattoo in two weeks