Comments on: Poll: Which Browser Are You?

By: boom

boom — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:09:47 +0000

I’ve voted for firefox, but i came here, because i wanted to switch. I hasitate between shiira and camino.
Firefox is becoming really slow, and its not native.

Right now i’m trying shiira.

But i already misses some functions, like ‘undo close tab’.

By: Liz

Liz — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:39:28 +0000

Camino. I used Safari for awhile when I first got my Mac, but wasn’t completely satisfied with speed or ease of use…so I tried Firefox, but too ugly and PC for me. Then Opera, but couldn’t get used to it. I never tried Omni because I’m not someone who as $15 for a browser…Shiira I liked and used for awhile, but the crashing eventually irritated me too much and I ditched it to try Camino, and i’ve never gone to anything else. Camino is fast and has a very non-bloated, easy-to-use and easy-on-the-eyes interface and layout. Very Mac-like, particularly with a little tweaking from Pimp My Camino. Love it, Camino for me all the way!

By: Watermarker

Watermarker — Tue, 27 May 2008 08:20:21 +0000

Opera become non stable last year- crashes, crases, crashes… Firefox is the best!

By: Nimbler

Nimbler — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:28:03 +0000

I have used every browser that was evaluated here. One of my main things I want in a browser is Speed and then versitility that makes surfing a pleasure. That means that I hooked on Opera. I started with Safari for a while when first on the net, then came firefox and I used it for probably the longest of all. Needless to say but I never stop looking for the perfect one so along came Flock which is great for me doing Ebay because of its intergration with Flickr and being able to see the phots in my acct. Then came Opera and this one looks the best and works the best for me. I love the amount of customizing that is in this one also. Well I think I thats enough … thanks
Nimbler.

By: Gio

Gio — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:48:14 +0000

I’ve used Internet Explorer all my life. I just switched to Opera and I perfer Opera over IE because I need speed,and Opera is waaaaay faster than IE

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By: Aureo

Aureo — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:47:02 +0000

Hi,

For tabs in Safari, there is a very useful tool called TwiceTab (http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/internet_utilities/twicetab.html), that allows double-click to open a new tab.

By: hansning

hansning — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:31:02 +0000

i’m one of the 17 people who voted for shiira. i’m trying to use shiira as my main browser to see how it can hold up. one thing i’m constantly surprised by it is that it’s REALLY fast. it seems like such a “bloated” and full featured browser that you would expect to chug along, but it doesn’t act that way at all.

my favorite part right now is having the pagedock on the left side, which works well on widescreens because you don’t really need that wide of browsing space.

it crashes once in a while, and for some reasons, bookmarks don’t work unless they’re in the bookmark bar. i don’t understand it’s rss implementation, and there’s all sorts of wierdness happening, but overall, it’s a real contender if it had more developers. considering the teams developing each, i’d say that shiira is doing pretty darn good.

By: Sakina

Sakina — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:50:01 +0000

I voted for Safari because I’m a hardcore Mac user and I download safari for all the computers running windows in this house.

My second choice would definitely be firefox. All computers running mac or windows in this house all have safari and firefox.

By: Bond

Bond — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 02:36:01 +0000

Hasn’t OmniWeb been proven on multiple occasions to render pages faster than other browsers available?

That’s why I use it and that should probably be mentioned in the “Pros”.

By: Francois

Francois — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:27:38 +0000

Camino all the way.

It’s zippy and I just like to keep my browser free of stuff. Just the essentials. Sometimes Safari, just to remind me of how much I love camino.

By: beachball

beachball — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:33:44 +0000

@ ziggypop: No, itÂ´s a standard behaviour. But stupidly enough, you have to open the first tab manually with âŒ˜T.

IÂ´d prefer Shiira if all of its features actually worked and if it didnÂ´t crah all the time…

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By: Stephane

Stephane — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:47:51 +0000

Gand said:
“Right, quantity is not quality, often less is more.”

That’s why I say in my first comment :
“I just wanted put in perspective your first sentence.”

As for the browser I use :
1 – Safari for basic use and web development
2 – Firefox when I need to test something
3 – Use to be all about Camino when it was still called Chimera
4 – Did use OmniWeb way before there was any other good alternative

By: jonathan

jonathan — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:20:08 +0000

I’ll also stick up for Opera. It’s smaller and faster than most. And, out-of-the-box, it’s got mouse gestures (cleaner ones than the Firefox plugin IMHO). True, it doesn’t have Firefox’s plugins and it’s skins aren’t pretty, but Breeeze Simplified Micro gives me the most compact interface I’ve seen on any other browser. With mouse gestures, who needs to find the ‘back’ button, anyway?!

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By: Dhruv

Dhruv — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:35:38 +0000

Calling Opera ‘bloated’ is a little harsh don’t you think? Sure it has a ton of feaures that most people might not use, but the beauty is that none of it interferes or slows down the rest. It doesn’t forceyou to use them. They are just there.

Plus it has such a tiny installation package. I hardly think you can call it bloated.

As for interface, the new kestrel(9.5) builds are supposed to look more native and have a more paired down interface by default.

By: Gand

Gand — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 20:32:47 +0000

Stephane said:
“…but there ARE more browser on Windows, just more bad one”

Right, quantity is not quality, often less is more.
Question is about layout engines:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_layout_engines
And, first of all, if these engines are free or proprietary.

By: Stephane

Stephane — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:06:42 +0000

To Gand

On this page from wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers#Trident-based_browsers) you can count already 13 browser usint the Trident rendering engire, I know or already 2 browser using Webkit on Windows and more than 14 Gecko based browser.

Also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mac_OS_X_web_browsers
24 OS X browser

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Windows_web_browsers
42 Windows browser

p.s. I’m a fervent Mac user and defender, but the truth is the is more browser on Windows than on Mac, and most of them are more mature in fonctionnality, don’t read better, they are just older with full fonctionality with an awfull rendering engine

Most browser based on Webkit are really yong and still not as fonctionnal as the 3 main : Safari, Shiira and OmniWeb. Apart from Firefox, Camino, Flock and Netscape/SeaMonkey/Mozilla Suite, most the the other Gecko based browser are simple shell over Gecko and don’t have many features not in their big brother.

Don’t get me wrong again, I love my Mac and I would never even work on Windows but there ARE more browser on Windows, just more bad one

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By: Barry

Barry — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:42:06 +0000

I prefer Safari because I can use the snap back arrow to get back to where i started when links have taken me far off topic. Camino seems to play better with more sites, however, and if it had a snapback feature to-I’d use it until Safari reaches universal access to many morel web sites. (plus sometimes Safari hangs now that I’ve upgraded to Leopard.

By: San

San — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:12:28 +0000

Omniweb is THE web browser for Mac ! No concurrent.
All the web is accessible with shorts keystrokes or shortcuts, whatever searching or surfing. All objects are downloadable easily .
Only Safari 3 come close to him now with the help of some plugins.

By: David

David — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:15:52 +0000

Another feature of Omniweb I forgot to mention…

Ad blocking. Omniweb basically automatically blocks the loading of graphics that fit certain size criteria coupled with the source of the image. I hate using other browsers when I go to a site to actually READ something but I’ve got flashing gifs and flash crap distracting me in the side bars. With OW, I get clean content.

You can also set it to animate animated GIFs ‘n’ number of times so those don’t end up distracting the heck out of you when you’re trying to get to the actual content of a site

By: David

David — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:10:12 +0000

OmniWeb has been around since NextStep 3.0–it was the bomb then and it still is.

Features I can’t live without:

- The search bar can be so flexibly configured. I have 15 different searches configured so I can search quite a few different online dictionaries, versiontracker, wikipedia, weather, etc. It’s incredibly easy to add any web site’s search options right into the search bar.

- background web page update notification. Omniweb, on a site by site basis, can be configured to use free cycles on your computer to hit any site that’s in your bookmarks and put a checkmark next to it if there have been any updates since the last time you viewed that site. Very convenient

- text field editing. Any text field in any form can become a separate window for more convenient editing

- workspaces. Omniweb has had “Spaces” for web browsing for years (long before Leopard brought the feature to the Mac. You can have your “work” space, your “news” space, your pr0n space…

- per site preferences for type faces, encoding, etc. You can set preferences for individual web sites so when I hit those LOUSY foreign language web sites that don’t set a char set in the header (and of course anyone who actually works with multiple languages sets utf8 as their default encoding for their browsing), once set in the site preference, OW will switch to whatever lame encoding the site is using for me (even when the lame developers didn’t set the encoding in code)

The search bar flexibility alone is worth $15.

By: Reza

Reza — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:37:53 +0000

I started using firefox for a year ago and never looked back.
Having adblock, mouse gesture and possibility to add other nice features is invaluable.
Can agree about the memory use but that can be changed. In Most cases the problem is people allocate to much memory for cache and histor and then they use 10+ tabs. You can change these settings and reduce the memory use.
But still i think FF uses more memory then some other browsers but i dont mind since i have 2G and usually always 1G free. Also i can restart FF once a day
All and all i think FF is the best , for me atleast.

By: Linda

Linda — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 11:19:25 +0000

I like to keep it simple with Safari and Inquisitor. All the web-searching goodness this gal needs.

By: Gand

Gand — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 10:45:13 +0000

Sorry, web browser only are listed here:

http://www.pure-mac.com/webb.html

OSX 20 – Win 15

By: Gand

Gand — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 10:38:55 +0000

Quoting # 10:
“a quick look in wikipedia showâ€™s there are a lot more browser available on Windows than on Mac”

Please have a look here:
http://darrel.knutson.com/mac/www/browsers.html

By: Lucky

Lucky — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 10:32:34 +0000

#10 That’s what I was thinking when I read the article.

By: E@zyVG

E@zyVG — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 09:43:57 +0000

With latest Safari, it is really a very decent browser, but I have switched to Firefox, and right now running latest Firefox 3 beta on my Leopard hackintosh.