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I love my new iMac! I'm guessing my question has been answered before. I've kind of gotten familiar with the Safari web browser. I've heard a lot of good things about Firefox also. Is Firefox the preferred browser? If so, why? If I installed Firefox, should I uninstall Safari? Thanks in advance!
 
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There is no reason you can't have both installed. I have 6 browsers on my Mac, but I pretty much only use Safari. I prefer FireFox on the PC though.
 

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There is no reason you can't have both installed. I have 6 browsers on my Mac, but I pretty much only use Safari. I prefer FireFox on the PC though.

Ditto here. I have every browser that I know about installed for testing, but always come back to Safari for 95% of my browsing. I use Camino for a few sites or Firefox. On Windows though FireFox all the way.
 
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I use Safari 99.9% of the time. I keep Firefox around just in case.
 
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There is no reason you can't have both installed. I have 6 browsers on my Mac, but I pretty much only use Safari. I prefer FireFox on the PC though.

Yep same for me, Safari on my Mac, Firefox for a bit of a Back Up for services where you have multiple accounts (saves Signing in and Out all the time) and I also use it on the PC.
 
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You should check out the web browser poll

I personally use Firefox only because the keyboard shortcuts work the same on both OS X and Windows, and I'm too lazy to learn them for Safari :p Though in all seriousness, it's because I need the Firefox extensions
 

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