Which browser?

440Hz

After reading the thread about issues with Firefox I thought it might be interesting/helpful to have a thread about browser options! And see what everyone uses. No doubt Firefox, err I mean Internet Explorer (:D) will rank top of the list!!

Pick your fav and tell us why its number one for you if you like! Might be helpful for people deciding what to use or considering a change. But please try and give a decent reason, and not just say "cos Camino is the best" (like I would hehe).

I just kept it to 10 options (including other) so if your choice is not listed post about it! I know I missed some popular choices but I can't remember how to add more than 10 poll options hehe! Oh and I didn't include separate options for Safari 3.0 for example. http://www.pure-mac.com/webb.html this is a handy reference.

ps: Poll is public and allows multiple choice.

Oirthir

Camino

Firefox, no matter what my OS!

Only thing that bugs me is that a few of B.ie functions won't work with Firefox. eg Thread Tools etc.

I should prob mention it to someone like DeVore...

Sad Professor

IE

Camino...cuz it's the best.

Seriously though I've tried every browser but have been happiest since switching to Camino. For a start it's written in Cocoa and is a true mac app as opposed to a port of a Windows app like Firefox. Don't get me wrong Firefox is a good port but it's still a port and I'd rather support a browser designed specifically for OSX.

Second, I find it (in my experience anyway) pretty damn stable, certainly more so than Safari which usually crashes several times a day. Camino has never crashed on me, it will sometimes grow a bit slow after a few days usage but a simple re-launch fixes that. The important thing is it never quits while I'm in the middle of reading something.

I know some people are married to Firefox's add-ons/plug-ins and could never live without them but personally I believe in keeping a web browser a web browser. Camino still has a bit to go but I hope they keep it small and efficient. It's much kinder on system resources than Firefox.

Hugh_C

OmniWeb

I regularly use 4 different browsers, not necessarily at the same time though!

I find that boards works best with Opera, in other browsers a lot of the buttons (like mark forumas read) don't work

I use Safari for general purpose browsing, and Firefox comes a close second.

Flock is fun with flickr and youtube.

hc

Rhyme

Flock

Was a Firefox devotee for years before someone introduced me to Opera and i've not seen fit to change since.

Simple to use, clean look and enough features (in case i need them).

440Hz

IE

Sad Professor, a man after my own heart!! I love Camino for all the reasons you have listed! I love its Cocoa-ness, simplicity, reliabilty and stability. The look and feel is just right, keep it simple, they sure got that right!! I'm not a plugins fanatic so it suits me perfectly. I just want some reliable and stable. The development is progressing nicely, grown alot since the Chimera days.

I love its integration with the OS, even the latest release 1.5 making use of the built-in Mac OS X spell-checker on every text field. Unlike Firefox, this spell-checker is the same one used throughout Mac OS X. It feels more native than Safari, for me anyway.

Having said about keeping it simple I must admit I did "pimp my Camino" today, for the first time! I gave it a Leopard look and feel (Leopard icon set) to match my OS preview. I like it

I do use other browsers sometimes for specific tasks, but thats increasingly rare these days! Esp since I found a StumbleUpon widget for my bored times! That was one of my few reasons for loading up FF!

jtsuited

Camino

i said firefox despite my recent issues with it. Although camino is a close second.

edit: come to think of it i prefer camino to the others

triple h

Firefox

Safari

I am new to mac since xmas, i hated safari when i first got my imac, so i started to use firefox. I liked it and i saw no reason to leave it. But then when the new safari came out a few weeks ago i started to use it and i love it. Ok, it does crash and that bugs me, and sometimes i still use firefox. But i reckon, well, i hope, that by xmas 2007, that safari will be amazing ( when leopard comes out)

If safari is not good by xmas i will try Camino. It's a wonder i have not tried it yet, seen as i swear by what the professors says at times. But i might try it some day, but i like safari now.

babypink

iCab

omniweb FTW!!!!! though i have to say that the latest safari beta is winning me back a little.

The guys in OmniGroup could really do with releasing an update as its a touch buggy

Urban Weigl

Other

Safari 3, the public beta. Also use Firefox.

ZENER

IE

440Hz wrote:

Sad Professor, a man after my own heart!! I love Camino for all the reasons you have listed! . . . . I'm not a plugins fanatic so it suits me perfectly. I just want some reliable and stable. . . . . I love its integration with the OS, . . . . It feels more native than Safari, for me anyway. . . . I must admit I did "pimp my Camino" today, for the first time! I gave it a Leopard look and feel (Leopard icon set) to match my OS preview. I like it

Oh for the love of PETE !!!! OK! OK! I give in I've downloaded Camino 1.5 right . . . I'm trying it now OK ??? Jeeze you will NOT be happy until everyone does as you say . . . typical woman :rolleyes:

Actually it's not too bad ya' know, spell checking, quick rendering, tabs etc. I'll give it a go for a while and post later. Happy now !!??

ZEN

440Hz

IE

@Zen: mhahahahaha!!
As for getting everyone to do what I say Don't worry, I'm used to no-one listening to me /takes out small violin hehe

woohooo!! another convert! (well, almost)

Narcissus

Flock

haha cool, i was just thinking of starting a thread on this topic the other day.

I use opera all the time. It has loads of nice little features like speed dial and ... em ... others I can't recall right now! It's fast and reliable, hasn't crashed since i've started using it. The only thing that bothers me about it is some websites won't work for whatever reason (that there's probably a solution to that i havent found yet). Blogmusik for example doesn't work in opera, so in that case I would use use safari. (version 2. something)

Strange that I use opera because I always used ffox on windows but never thought to get it on mac.

Also, no Camino for me!

faceman

Firefox

with the high performance of safari 3, i havent used anythin else since it was launched! Best browser imo.

Rollo Tamasi

OmniWeb

I switch between Firefox, Camino and Flock in that order.

I have an issue with Camino's handling of form information but besides from that it's sweet out.

Camino seems to get my login information muddled up. It uses my gmail user/pass to try and log into my boards account and visa versa. It's really annoying and defeats the purpose of the browser saving your form information.

Gordon

Camino

Firefox/Safari.

Firefox is a little sluggish to open up and seems to eat memory or processor power so if I want something light I use Safari.

Asiaprod

IE

I am liking Camino more and more. Very fast.

Cabaal

Camino

I used Safari when I first got my Mac but I've moved back to Firefox now
I missed my extentions far too much

Sad Professor

IE

440Hz wrote:

I love its integration with the OS, even the latest release 1.5 making use of the built-in Mac OS X spell-checker on every text field. Unlike Firefox, this spell-checker is the same one used throughout Mac OS X. It feels more native than Safari, for me anyway.

Yeah, the Firefox spell-checker drove me crazy. It was always switching to the British dictionary and then refusing to download the Irish one. Also Camino uses the OSX keychain for passwords. Firefox still hasn't implemented this.

Rollo Tamasi wrote:

Camino seems to get my login information muddled up. It uses my gmail user/pass to try and log into my boards account and visa versa. It's really annoying and defeats the purpose of the browser saving your form information.

Strange, I never have this problem. You might try looking in your OSX keychain and see if there's conflicting data or something. As I said above Camino doesn't actually remember the info itself, it uses the integrated OSX keychain instead which is more secure, so that's probably where the problem is.

Rollo Tamasi

OmniWeb

Interesting, must have a rummage around the keychain then.
Thanks for the info.

440Hz

IE

Asiaprod wrote:

I am liking Camino more and more. Very fast.

Awwwww!



Can you feel the camino love growing?



Ok, I'll stop now!

damo86

Flock

opera browser all the way!
speedial is great,nice,skinnable and fast.

widgets are handy as you can have video downloader etc.

fullscreen mode and loadsa hot keys!

i could go on...oh yeah..opera software are cool,writing this via opera mini!

Dont be at yourself

Firefox

Firefox has grown too fat and bloated. Safari 3 all the way!

ZENER

IE

My number 1 has to be Safari 3 but having used Camino for the past few days it's become a very close second and who knows it might even become my #1. The only thing holding it back is that sometimes it looses my toolbar settings.

Certainly rate it above FF which tends to hang on me from time to time.

ZEN

triple h

Firefox

ZENER wrote:

My number 1 has to be Safari 3 but having used Camino for the past few days it's become a very close second ................

Certainly rate it above FF which tends to hang on me from time to time.

ZEN

I was waiting for your report on Camino. I said to myself 'well if ZENER gives it a glowing report i will try it out'. The fact you still put Safari 3 as your number 1 means i will not try it out.

I really love Safari 3 and i still reckon that in a few months time it will be fecking amazing, even though it is awesome right now. By Xmas i reckon safari 3 will be the main mac browser.

It is true what one person said, above, that firefox has got fat and bloated. Firefox has got stale. I reckon Firfox will up their game some day, which is why i will still use it as my number 2, even though ZENER says that Camino is better than firefox, (which i 100% believe,) i really do not feel like downloading a new Web browser cause i reckon two is enough to have.

Sad Professor

IE

damo86 wrote:

i could go on...oh yeah..opera software are cool,writing this via opera mini!

Gotta agree with you about Opera mini, great little program. Too bad I never have any credit to use it.

andyps2.5

Camino

Firefox rules

440Hz

IE

Yeah I love Opera Mini on my Blackberry, hate the native BB browser.

Shock of all shocks: I havent tried Safari 3.0 yet cos I hate Safari so much, but I guess if you lot are gonna try Camino I'll give 3.0 a go!!

babypink

iCab

opera mini FTW!!! gives me my mobile internets!!

Rollo Tamasi

OmniWeb

I'm after compling a blog post about the results of the poll and I compared the poll to some statistics I have to hand from my Apple Mac Blog.

Some of you might finding the results interesting..
(they're by no means scientific of course )

440Hz

IE

Been using Safari 3.0 all night, its OKAY I suppose What I really miss though is my configured search bar


I presume Safari has some plugin for this?

Trying to get used to the different shortcuts too. I'm not swayed from Camino yet. Beats stoopid FF though! oh and its kinda snappy alright aint it!

Dont be at yourself

Firefox

Download Inquisitor plugin for Safari. It works like Spotlight, but for internets.

440Hz

IE

hehe cheers!! I installed that, relaunched Safari, didnt change ANY other settings and boards decided to stop letting me log in. No probs in any browser though. Random things like that annoy the crap outta me! Back to Camino it is

6th

Camino

I voted Fierefox because thats what I prefere to use and what I was using til I bought an Intel iMac the other day and I can't install Firefox on it ... I hate Safari!

triple h

Firefox

6th wrote:

I voted Fierefox because thats what I prefere to use and what I was using til I bought an Intel iMac the other day and I can't install Firefox on it ... I hate Safari!

When i first got my imac i hated safari, but i love the new safari 3 since i upgraded to it a few weeks ago.

in the top right corner os your screen where you see the word safari, click it. Go to about safari and it should tell you what safari you are using, mine is 3.0.2 I just would like to know what safari you are using. If it is 2. something . something. then go to apple and download the new safari.
Strange how you cannot download firefox, you should be able to.

440Hz

IE

Yeah Im wondering why you cant install Firefox either... whats the problem you are having?

a5y

IE

+ 1 Camino.

I've had some disapointing experiences with Safari, detailed elsewhere one boards; though to be fair some of that may be the result of mysterious faulty hardware.

I use Camino because it both runs reliably (no crashes, erratic behaviour, opens quickly) and because it feels like it fits in with the rest of the Mac. This may seem like I'm perfering it largely because of its appearance, but as I'm learning a new OS it really does matter, and makes life easier.

That said, I wish it handled RSS feeds better. Whatever else about Safari, when you opened an RSS feed with it, Safari formated it well and made it readable. I'm using NewsFire Lite as an aggregator now and to be honest I'm not completely happy with the feel of it.

Sad Professor

IE

a5y wrote:

That said, I wish it handled RSS feeds better. Whatever else about Safari, when you opened an RSS feed with it, Safari formated it well and made it readable. I'm using NewsFire Lite as an aggregator now and to be honest I'm not completely happy with the feel of it.

You should check out Google reader. It's online which might not suit you but I find it very handy since I can access it from anywhere. I just leave it open in a tab all the time. Works great imo.

a5y

IE

Sad Professor wrote:

You should check out Google reader. It's online which might not suit you but I find it very handy since I can access it from anywhere. I just leave it open in a tab all the time. Works great imo.

I don't like the idea of google knowing which RSS feeds I've subscribed to and hanging onto the data for 18/24 months; otherwise I'd use an online service.

Is there any way of hosting something similar on my own webspace? No doubt it would be possible, but I've not come across it anywhere before. I guess its the hard ay of doing the same thing.

leakd

Camino

I use the G4-optimised version of Firefox. It's just as fast as any other browser and I can use every Firefox extension (that's why I don't like Camino, because there aren't that many extensions around). Extensions like Greasemonkey are really handy on sites like Flickr, I use a Greasemonkey script to add photos to multiple groups at once for example.

440Hz

IE

Greasemonkey is one of the few things I miss by not using FF. Esp for its Flickr convenience, agreed.

huggs2

iCab

Firefox 3 rc1 is 2.7 times faster than ff2. Been using ff3 for the past month and i love it. There is also a Del.icio.us extention made for firefox 3. which you need to check out.Dont think i will be using another browser any time soon.
more on ff3 here.
http://lifehacker.com/392160/top-10-firefox-3-features

matmacfarlane

Firefox

For Safari users, try the inquisitor add-on for the google searchbar.
It works just like spotlight in finder giving you a drop down menu of
relevent pages as you type. Soooo handy!

silvine

Camino

Firefox for the smartags, multiple search options and the dei.lico.us add-on. Also the latest FF looks very much like a dedicated Mac application. It works great with Quicksilver too.

I tried Safari recently but I'm not conviced. It looks a little strange. The only reason for switching seems to be taht it works well with Mail, for RSS feeds.

I also tried downloading Camino yesterday but the site was down for some reason so I am undecided on that browser. Does Camino have a Quicksilver plugin?

dubmick

Firefox

tell me about these smart tags for Firefox

silvine

Camino

Right click on a search box on the likes IMDB. You will be asked to give it a name (I use IMDB) and a tag (I use IMDB).

After that you can type the tag "IMDB" and the search item "Al Pacino" into the address bar. Firefox will then take you directly to those PAcino search results on IMDB.

http://wordpress.com/tag/firefox-smart-keywords/

dubmick

Firefox

cool, thanks

Although, I think adding a search engine to Firefox might be easier

http://mycroft.mozdev.org/index.html

Cabaal

Camino

you just know the 3 that voted for IE on this poll did so for the laugh

huggs2

iCab

Firefox 3 final is being released mid june. Mozilla want to get a world record for downloads on "download day" . All the details are here.:)
http://www.macworld.com/article/133646/2008/05/firefox3.html

ZENER

IE

I'm not so sure about Firefox anymore since someone put this link in their sig. Suddenly it doesn't seem like the all conquering saviour everyone thought it was. Think I'll stick with Safari.

I bet the people using IE are running XP with IE7 . . . . :cool:

ZEN

johnk123

Firefox

I use Safari and Firefox. I couldn't really decide which one i like best but by force of habbit i probably use Safari more than Firefox.