Which web browser do you use?

[SparkyMac]

That message appears when the dmg is corrupt or incomplete. Download it again and try. I have Firefox and Safari running but I use Safari more now that I can install AdBlock and other plugins.


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[AliOop]

I see this is an old post but here goes. I use Safari 90% of the time on my MBP (2012 model). Works well. Does everything I want. Nothing wrong with Chrome or Firefox. But I think I'll stick with Safari.

 

[Greenman]

I'm using Chrome most of the time, as Safari 8 is giving me trouble

 

[chas_m]

Are you Safari because Chrome is a data-mining tool, and Safari… isn't.

I do keep a copy of Firefox around and updated, but I find i am using it less and less often. Nothing wrong with it, just Safari does the job very well and there seems to be less occasion where something doesn't work in Safari and I need Firefox.

I should add that I'm not particularly crazy about the frequency of Firefox updates. I update it more often then I open it.

 

[Barrinet]

I have both Opera and Safari on my Mac, and I often use safari, but there are times that safari cannot load online applications, so I turn to Opera, and it works.

 

[knightjp]

Safari

Safari always works a treat for me. I don't understand why anyone would use Chrome or anything else. I suppose some people have their preferences.
Granted there are some sites that don't work on Safari. For example, over here there are some sites that kind of require IE; especially some government sites and my companie's HR site.. I don't know why anyone would program a site that would require only IE.. kind of redundant if you ask me.

Chrome IMO uses quite a bit of resources than Safari does. Probably that is the reason it works so fast. Firefox is not working as well as it should. I've not tried the new Opera. I hear it has got Chrome underneath, so I suppose it should be good and have the same performance.

 

[rosario1990]

I use Mozila Firefox latest version. And I enjoyed it too much while browsing on the internet. LOL!

 

[rosario1990]

I have both Opera and Safari on my Mac, and I often use safari, but there are times that safari cannot load online applications, so I turn to Opera, and it works.

I didn't use any of it. And don't have any idea at all. Can you tell me little about those?

 

[knightjp]

I use Mozila Firefox latest version. And I enjoyed it too much while browsing on the internet. LOL!

The last time I used Firefox, it did not open most of the sites correctly. Also it used a bit more resources than safari. Not as much as Chrome, but still a bit more.

 

[knightjp]

I didn't use any of it. And don't have any idea at all. Can you tell me little about those?

I'm pretty happy with Safari and it performance. Of course it does not have the same number of extensions and add-ons that Firefox or Chrome but it works well.

 

[Zoolook]

When I voted a few years back, I was using Firefox. Now I use Safari mainly because of the syncing across iOS and also because it now has Ad Block working. The gestures are pretty nice too.

I still use Firefox occasionally (on my VM and sometimes in Safari), and it's now actually faster than Safari (check out Peacemaker) and also the private browsing and proxy switchers can be useful for things like BBC iPlayer (before you judge, I am British and pay a license fee).

I never got into Chrome, but I have to use it at work, and it's a buggy mess IMO.

 

[dtravis7]

On my newer Macs I use Safari 100% of the time as since Mavericks I love the way it works. On a couple of older Macs I alternate between Safari and Firefox depending on the site.

 

[Rod]

I just tried to download Firefox 30 and install it. But when trying to mount the .dmg file, it says "no mountable file systems". I thought there might be something wrong with the file so I tried to download another one from the site. Same message.

Any ideas?

Ensure you are downloading from Mozilla because it sounds like an incomplete or corrupted file. As for Version 30, well, I'm using Version 39 with Yosemite but I don't know what OS you are running.

 

[Rod]

Personally I am using Opera 30.0 after using Chrome for years. I swapped to Chrome when it was a fast lightweight browser with lots of options compared to Safari at the time, I think that was 1998 - 99. It also worked smoothly with gMail.
As Google Chrome became more and more integrated with calendars, contacts, gMail, Google Drive, Google docs, etc, etc it became easier to stick with it. However it is much heavier and memory hungry than it was. I also became aware of how insidious Google analytics is, shaping and tracking my browsing and search results.
When a company like Google becomes so big that it is the generic term for a web search I start worrying that maybe, just maybe they have access to a bit too much.
Thats when I start searching for an alternative developing competitor.
Opera 30 is really a great browser but a bit different. It is open source and has an iOS browser app which syncs across all my portable devices. It even has a Beta test program and some really great original features.

 

[HungarianStan]

Safari, across all my devices, mostly because of the bookmark and history syncing, plus being able to have my Reading List right there. Very useful in my line of work (university teacher).

 

[vansmith]

I also became aware of how insidious Google analytics is, shaping and tracking my browsing and search results.

GA has nothing to do with the browser - it's something web developers use to track visits to the page. In fact, you're "using" it by viewing Mac-Forums:



I fear that there is this myth that Chrome tracks your usage, of which there is no proof. The tinfoilers, as I like to call them, propagate this with no evidence which is frustrating given that any and all tracking that Google does comes from their web properties. I'm not suggesting that you're a tinfoiler but if you don't want to be tracked by Google (a valid concern), you need to abandon their services, not the software.

Thats when I start searching for an alternative developing competitor.
Opera 30 is really a great browser but a bit different.

Opera uses Chromium at its heart (which is developed in large part by Google).

They used to have their own engine, Presto, and it was pretty solid for a while but it became rather antiquated and was lagging the efforts of companies like Google and Mozilla who had the resources to develop much more comprehensive engines. If you're really curious to see what Opera was like before Chromium, you have to go a few releases back.

It is open source and has an iOS browser app which syncs across all my portable devices.

It's not open source (it uses open source code but the browser as a whole isn't).

You certainly are right about the cross-platform support though, being the only browser other than Chrome that works basically everywhere. That said, Firefox is actively developing their iOS client (which, unfortunately, will be a crippled disaster compared to their Android version because of Apple's restrictions on apps...boo...).

 

[rosario1990]

The last time I used Firefox, it did not open most of the sites correctly. Also it used a bit more resources than safari. Not as much as Chrome, but still a bit more.

So you're in the Chrome Browser right?

 

[dtravis7]

No Safari!!!

 

[Rod]

vansmith you are certainly correct about Chromium being at the heart of Opera development but although I wouldn't call myself a "tinfoiler" (great term that) I suppose it's just my nature to lean towards smaller developing companies rather than large multinational conglomerates. It is probably this attitude that led me to go with Apple products in preference to Microsoft in the first place.
As to whether Google shapes our internet experience deliberately I still think the jury is out on that one but I do note that if I do a web search for the same thing with a different search engine I get different results. What I do know is any corporate company that does not utilise every bit of market research they can get their hands on to appeal to their target market will go broke. At the same time they must demonstrate that they are doing everything possible to dominate the market to their shareholders. My wife received an email this morning from Google offering her a unique, custom URL for her business. I find that invasive, but how did they know she had a business in the first place? She does have a business web site through Wordpress linked to a dedicated gMail account so it's not surprising that they can know this but it's how they use this information that bothers me.
So it is when a "service" becomes so big that it can dominate the marketplace in so many areas, a little like Microsoft Windows used to do, thats when I start looking for alternatives.
In the same way I like to do my shopping at a local fresh food market rather than a huge multinational supermarket chain. Diversity and competition are the keys to a healthy marketplace, so I like to support the little man, he needs my support whereas Google does not.

 

[vansmith]

vansmith you are certainly correct about Chromium being at the heart of Opera development but although I wouldn't call myself a "tinfoiler" (great term that)

Haha, I don't often have people complement my creativity. Oh, I wasn't suggesting that you were a tinfolier.

I suppose it's just my nature to lean towards smaller developing companies rather than large multinational conglomerates.

I get it, I really do. What about Firefox? It's open source, very well supported and soon(ish) will have iOS support.

As to whether Google shapes our internet experience deliberately I still think the jury is out on that one but I do note that if I do a web search for the same thing with a different search engine I get different results. [...] My wife received an email this morning from Google offering her a unique, custom URL for her business. I find that invasive, but how did they know she had a business in the first place?

I have no doubt that Google operates in a way that serves their business interests as every company needs to for survival. Speaking to Chrome, it really is about driving people to web apps - create a high performance browser that can support the web apps that have the advertising. As for your wife, the answer is data mining - they mined the emails and saw a pattern.