The Hickensian

13.08.05

OS X Browser Survey 2005

The question is simple: What browser are you using the most on OS X? With so much (good) choice on Mac these days, and the ‘field’ being very different to a year ago, I’d like to know what peoples tastes are.

This is a survey in the form of the Comping app and Text Editor surveys from last year (I.e – not very scientific). Is Safari the favourite? Have Firefox and Camino eaten into its share? Has support for underdogs (Shiira, Omniweb, Opera, iCab) increased? Or are you using apps like NetNewsWire for their browsing needs?

How to take part : Name your default browser in the first line (to make it easy for me to count), followed by a short sentence on the next line, saying what it is about that browser that ‘makes’ it for you. The only other rule: this is OS X only I’m afraid. Unlike the previous surveys, I’m going to be very strict on that point this time, you have been warned! I’ll leave comments open for a week or two before I publish the results.

Go!

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No.1

Daniel Nicolas said 1420 days ago:

Camino Nightly build
the cleanest very snazzy choice

No.2

Marc Kohlbrugge said 1420 days ago:

Safari
I tried Firefox, but it doesn’t feel like a real ‘Mac OS’-app. And others browsers (like Camino) don’t have any advantages over Safari, I think.

No.3

Josh Jarmin said 1420 days ago:

Right now I am using Firefox as my default browser, but that may soon change.

I like Firefox because its fast, easy on the eyes, and (like OSX) it just works. Safari and NNW are a close second for me. I do alot of my surfing these days in NNW as I go through the days updates.

No.4

Jeff Wheeler said 1420 days ago:

Safari
I tried Firefox, and I really want to like it, but it’s just so ugly. I can’t use it. :(

No.5

Travholt said 1420 days ago:

Firefox
Firstly because it’s become the reference browser, secondly because of all the useful extensions. (Greasemonkey/Platypus, Web Developer etc.)

No.6

paul haine said 1420 days ago:

Safari
It just does what I want and it works very well. Firefox just seems a bit odd on OSX to me – it seems to want to go back a page whenever I use the double-finger scrolling.

No.7

Zach said 1420 days ago:

After @media I bought myself an iBook after seeing everyone elses.

I’d barely used a Mac before. One of the first things I did was download Firefox. After doing a bit of surveying I came across your site PimpMySafari which made me think maybe Safari’s not so bad.

I currently use Safari though I have Firefox in my Dock Bar if I need to cross-browser check.

No.8

Patrick said 1420 days ago:

Firefox.

I don’t use my Mac that often, but when I do I always turn to Firefox. Maybe it’s just because I’m used to using it on my PC as well, but I just find it slightly more cuddly.

No.9

Jon said 1420 days ago:

Safari 1.3

Firefox comes a close second, but it’s slower, doesn’t feel Mac-ish, goes its own way with proxy settings (which is annoying if you travel as much as I do), and has a couple of annoying little features that really hack me off…

No.10

Rob Mientjes said 1420 days ago:

Safari is it for me. First of all, it looks better than Firefox (okay, so I think Firefox is simply ugly), second of all, it’s faster than any other browser I tried and liked and thirdly, the render engine is HOTT.

No.11

Rachel said 1420 days ago:

Firefox
Firstly because it means I can use it (and stuff like the web developer toolbar) whether I am on Linux at work or the Mac or Windows at home. I’ve also never liked Safari, on my machine it runs far more slowly than Firefox and things looking less like a ‘real’ OS X app is a plus as far as I am concerned ;)

No.12

JÃ©rÃ´me said 1420 days ago:

Safari

It’s a pleasant browser, it works perfectly, and Dave Hyatt makes a wonderful work on WebKit.

No.13

Gabriel Castro said 1420 days ago:

Safari 2.0

Like Rob said, it looks better than Firefox, it’s faster, and WebKit is awesome.

I only use Camino to manage my university stuff because their web app doesn’t support Safari (they’ve been “looking into it” for the past two years…hmmmf).

No.14

EJ said 1420 days ago:

Safari
RSS baby

No.15

Siobhan Curran said 1420 days ago:

Safari.

Much as my inner-soul tells me I should be using Firefox, I just find it too angular. Safari is all smooth and lovely.

Aesthetically (in my head), Safari BBC. Firefox Channel 4. MSIE == ITV.

My only gripe with Safari is the icon. I dunno who they got to design the Firefox one, but I reckon he could probably make a better thing than that insipid compass.

No.16

Erik V. said 1420 days ago:

Safari

I occasionally use Firefox, though; I like its warning for quitting with multiple tabs open and its greater flexibility with popup blocking.

No.17

computerdude33 said 1420 days ago:

I use a Camino nightly. It really is Mozilla power, Mac style.

No.18

Tom said 1420 days ago:

Firefox compiled from source
I like to use Safari when there is no way for me to compile Firefox, but I like the flexibility and fastness of Firefox when it is compiled from source with optimization FLAGs.

No.19

Carl-Johan Kihlbom said 1420 days ago:

Safari
...for that genuine Mac feeling. And it’s got all the features I need and the speed I crave.

No.20

Brad Smith said 1420 days ago:

OmniWeb

OmniWeb is the best combination of features of any browser. The only downside is the speed, which is a very noticeable issue on older PowerBooks.

No.21

Jeremy Weathers said 1420 days ago:

Safari/Firefox

Safari for my primary browsing, Firefox for primary web development testing. Firefox creates new windows in the default Mac down and right placement, even though my windows are full height – Safari places them to the right only. Also, with 10.4.2, I find I need to restart Firefox occasionally (it gets really slow and stops handling Javascript occasionally), but that’s just as likely Apple’s fault as 10.4 is incredibly buggy.

No.22

quis said 1420 days ago:

Camino
I use one of the G4 optimized nightlies which can be found at mozillazine. Seems to be faster than the normal builds at handling lots of tabs. I also think that it has the best feel of any OS X browswer, but that’s pretty subjective.

No.23

Younghusband said 1420 days ago:

Safari 2.0

Firefox is my backup browser, but 99% of the time I am using my pimped out Safari!

No.24

Miko said 1420 days ago:

Safari 2.0

I use Safari for daily browsing, but am finding myself using Camino 0.9 from the nightly builds. Fast and lightweight.

I prefer Safari over Firefox plainly because of how it handles bookmarking. RSS is in it’s dedicated aggregator, thank you.

Otherwise I use all the web browsers available for web testing my new sites.

No.25

Joris v. T. said 1420 days ago:

Safari

Looks better and loads faster than Firefox. I use Firefox when I need webdeveloper toolbar; the only thing I miss in Safari.

No.26

Adam Thody said 1420 days ago:

Safari

RSS. Speed. OS integration. Esthetics.

I do use Firefox as my main testing browser for development however. The web developer extension is hard to do without now.

No.27

Jeremy Fields said 1420 days ago:

Safari 2.0

I recently got my first Mac and was a Firefox diehard, but I’ve fallen in love with Safari’s quick loading, RSS and support for advanced CSS. I keep Firefox in my doc (along with IE, yuck) for testing.

No.28

Samuel SjÃ¶berg said 1420 days ago:

Safari
Because it is fast and nice looking. As a new OS X user I started of with Firefox, but it was too ugly (especially the forms) to consider in the long run. Still need it for some debugging though.

No.29

Denis Defreyne said 1420 days ago:

Safari (2.0)

It’s faster and its text rending is better than Firefox and other Gecko-based browsers. It also has that “Mac look and feel”.

(Isn’t it odd that OmniWeb hasn’t been mentioned at least once yet?)

No.30

G.Lindqvist said 1420 days ago:

I’m using Firefox with live boobmarks as sidebar.

No.31

Andy said 1420 days ago:

Safari 2.0
With Saft and built-in RSS, it has the right amount of features while retaining a certain simplicity, good function and speed, and clean design.

No.32

Drew McLellan said 1420 days ago:

I use Safari.

Key reasons for me are integration with the system-wide spell checker (my spelling sucks, so this is essential), and that the interface is unobtrusive. The Firefox UI is too colourful (looks like a pre-school toy) and I’ve not been able to find a professional looking monochrome theme for it. Plus Firefox form widgets are broken (missing borders etc) that just make it unusable.

No.33

Colin Frame said 1420 days ago:

Safari

Actually started out into my Mac experience 10 months ago jumping straight into Firefox but then went back to Safari recently. Still use Firefox from time to time but might start going the Camino way as it seems quite a bit quicker and more responsive than FF.

No.34

Gareth said 1420 days ago:

Firefox

Mainly for all the extensions (Web developer, Tidy, View rendered source in particular) but probably also as I can use the same browser across multiple OS’s and computers.

No.35

Chris said 1420 days ago:

Safari 2.0

It just has that certain something. I don’t need nor want all the extensions for Firefox. Certain little tips and apps from PimpMySafari are all I need.
Firefox just seems like a browser that wants to be OS. Which is strange because back in the old days when I used Phoenix 0.6 it was the slim and trim browser.

No.36

Ben S said 1420 days ago:

Safari

I’ve always used Firefox, but recently I’ve found that Safari is just so much more snappy than FF, especially now that its been pimped! (thanks, Jon)

I still use Firefox though for the extentions such as WebDev & Pagerank (I know, I know, but it’s fun!)

No.37

Aust said 1420 days ago:

I’m a Safari man. Once I stripped out the brushed metal and went down the unified toolbar route I was a happy man. I use Camino for Gecko testing.

No.38

Jez said 1420 days ago:

Safari
Force of habit really, I’ve been using Safari since Apple released it. But I do switch between FireFox and Camino at times.

No.39

Remi said 1420 days ago:

Safari 2.0

While I miss some Firefox features, I like Safari’s interface, and the RSS integration is nice. Extra features like spellcheck is also something I can’t live without anymore.

No.40

FSFunky said 1420 days ago:

Safari is the best, although I do use PithHelmet for adblocking.

No.41

Denis Radenkovic said 1420 days ago:

Safari

...then Firefox.

No.42

Jeremy Keith said 1420 days ago:

Safari, for most of the reasons that Drew already gave.

I do like Camino though.

No.43

Samuel Sidler said 1420 days ago:

Camino.

Speed is #1.

No.44

Simone Merli said 1420 days ago:

Safari 2.0

Firefox, Opera and IE Mac only for testing sites.
Come on Jon, Pimp My Safari! :)

No.45

Han Wonka said 1420 days ago:

IE all the way.

Come on guys, you can pretend that you prefer all of this space-aged stuff, but we all know that Bill’s Browser is the Bollocks.

No.46

Omar Shabbir said 1420 days ago:

Firefox, because of all the useful extensions that are available. I’ve also got a safarish theme which ain’t that bad looking :)

Also because you designed the logo :P

No.47

Gord Fynes said 1420 days ago:

Safari.

All the usual sites look better with Safari. Omni would next in line.

No.48

Jason Kitcat said 1420 days ago:

Safari

I find it has the best interface by far, but the poor speed and network robustness (for me at least) is beginning to get me down – Firefox tempts…

No.49

Ben Hiller said 1420 days ago:

Safari
I have tried Firefox, but it doesn’t seem native enough, although it is great for web development.

No.50

Stuart Frisby said 1420 days ago:

Firefox

Speed and stability is an issue, but the plethora of extensions and an interface familiar from my windoze days keeps me coming back for more.

No.51

brian warren said 1420 days ago:

Camino.
Tough to say why, I actually flip back and forth between it and Safari. Rarely do I only have one launched. Camino has better javascript support.

I also do a ton of my browsing (like submitting this form) from the browser in NetNewsWire.

No.52

kevin finlayson said 1420 days ago:

Safari 2.0

i like the intergration with NNW, and the render engine is my favourite. mostly it’s just fast and beautiful and I’m used to it. I prefer the developer extensions in Firefox, however, and built-in workspace saving would be nice b/c I always feel like SIMBL might be slowing me down.

No.53

Adriaan said 1420 days ago:

Safari 2.0
More relevant for me and I like text-shadow.

No.54

samyoung said 1420 days ago:

Shiira

I’m happy to be the first to vote for it. I recommend all give it a try. RSS support is a bit of a failing at this point – but if you use a newsreader, Shiira is definitely the way to go. Excellent Bookmarking/History/Download system, Expose-esque view all tabs (seriously, try it), a neat page flip browsing mode, private browsing, lots of customization and all the rest.

No.55

Kevin McKay said 1420 days ago:

Safari 2.x

This version of Safari brought me back. I find it works more reliably than Firefox, at least for the sites I visit. But Firefox remains a very close second for me.

No.56

Aronnax said 1420 days ago:

a Deer Park nightly (preview of Firefox 1.5)

+ the Sage, Scrapbook, Tab Clicking Options and Web Developer Extension
naturally, with one of my themes http://www.grapple.net.tf/

No.57

Silus Grok said 1420 days ago:

Safari, with Saft
I say “with Saft”, because it’s not the same browser without Saft. And I have the Aqua interface turned on.

No.58

Jonathan Holst said 1420 days ago:

Firefox.

It might not be the best browser, but I totally dig those extensions.

No.59

Greg said 1420 days ago:

Safari

My favourite browser, mainly for RSS, for daily use but Firefox for development work.

No.60

Matt Turner said 1420 days ago:

Safari 2

On my powerbook fastest loading and page rendering plus built in CSS. Firefox with webdev toolbar is rarely closed when i’m developing websites though, couldn’t live without it for that.

No.61

neil said 1420 days ago:

Safari 2.0

Though I switch back and forth between this and Firefox, with brief flirtations with Camino. Safari wins out due to its balance of OS integration, standards support, and extensibility(1), though.

(1): Without Saft, PithHelmet, and Stand, I wouldn’t touch Safari whatsoever as it would be way too simplistic. But once these are added in, it’s great.

I keep waiting for Omnigroup to get their act together and get Omniweb up to snuff, but I’ve almost stopped hoping at this point… though the fact that Web Kit is now open source is a hopeful sign…

No.62

Matt Turner said 1420 days ago:

Er.. i meant built in RSS obviously! :D

No.63

Matthew Kappenman said 1420 days ago:

Safari 2.0

I’ve tried using Firefox (I always use it on Windows Machines) but I agree with the above comments that it doesn’t feel like a Mac OSX app. For some reason Safari and I have become good friends, and I haven’t really felt the need to look at other browsers for quite some time.

No.64

Matt Crutchmer said 1420 days ago:

Camino 0.9

But more and more NetNewsWire 2 for surfing and MarsEdit for posting. Camino is faster on my box than the rest, and I really like the ‘lightness’ of its appearance on my small 17” screen. Safari 2 gets weighted down with lots fo RSS feeds to respond quickly.

No.65

Kelly said 1420 days ago:

I’m all over Camino .9a2. It’s such a beatiful tool, fast, and fairly solid for an Alpha. I switch to Safari on occaission for it’s OS integration. I really want to like Firefox, and I use it for site tweaking and development, but no matter how long I use it, it ends up becoming unstable. I do really, really like the live bookmars, though.

I’m surprised at how few Camino users there are.

No.66

Colly said 1420 days ago:

Safari.

On looks alone. Firefox has everything I need, want to use, and I find myself launching it all the time to check certain things. But, it’s always Safari for me. It looks simple, is unobtrusive, and I can actually see my designs in it’s frame.

Careful though, so much CSS renders slightly differently on older versions of Safari. That’s caught me out no end lately.

No.67

Jakob Heuser said 1420 days ago:

Firefox 1.0

I started using the Web Developer Toolbar [ link ] and haven’t been able to tear myself away from the browser since. Safari gets called up when flash is needed though, as the flash plugin for Firefox is really sluggish.

No.68

Brent said 1420 days ago:

“My only gripe with Safari is the icon. I dunno who they got to design the Firefox one, but I reckon he could probably make a better thing than that insipid compass.”

I’m ticked to death by that comment (#15). Does he not know where he posts!? =]

I use Safari. I agree with others that Firefox has many useful plugins but doesn’t feel enough like an OS X app. Safari, with Saft, is fine.

No.69

Pat said 1420 days ago:

Safari 2.0 mainly, but I use Firefox when I want to use the DOM Browser or some greasemonkey fu (like geotagging flickr photos)

No.70

Steve Hubbard said 1420 days ago:

Safari 1.3

No.71

Alan Jacobs said 1420 days ago:

OmniWeb.

The features of OmniWeb are unbeatable, but it crashes too often, and has little quirks—like an inability to autofill forms properly—that from time to time send me back to Safari. (but when that happens, Safari’s own little quirks send me back to OmniWeb. . . .) I’ll also be happier when OmniWeb adopts a more Tigerish appearance.

[Hey Jon, I’d be interested in a survey of favorite email clients.]

No.72

Philippe said 1420 days ago:

Firefox nightly builds, daily updated.

With my own form widgets naturally and Aronnax latest theme (Zaphod).

As second choice, Opera 8. Safari is only used for cross browser testing.

No.73

D Alexander Carlin said 1420 days ago:

Safari.

Firefox is admirable, but I find it clunky on the Mac OS (on Windows it’s another story). Plus, Safari is, according to my testing with Eric Meyers’ CSS test suite, more standards-compliant. I use Camino as a backup, though, and to test my pages with the Mozilla rendering engine.

No.74

Chet said 1420 days ago:

Firefox
I use firefox since i swith back from mac to pc and want the same browser on both.

No.75

josh said 1420 days ago:

Camino

I use nightly builds of Camino. Safari is decent, but its preferences (even with Saft and PithHelmet) don’t offer as many options.

No.76

Massimo said 1420 days ago:

Safari. Still the best with Saft enabled…

No.77

Ryan Prins said 1420 days ago:

Firefox 1.0.6 on both my PC and my Mac.

No.78

Magnus said 1420 days ago:

I use Safari and Camino.
If I’m going to a site with ads all over I use Camino with various prefpanes to block the ads.

No.79

Jason Cosper said 1420 days ago:

Safari 2.0 + Stand + Inquisitor

While Shiira and Camino are both doing their damndest to pry me away, I always find myself coming back home to Safari. shrug

No.80

Christopher Anderson said 1420 days ago:

OmniWeb 5.1.1

I’ve loved this browser since first understanding its true power. Thanks Jon for your support and the beautiful iTunes skin for it.

I’ve used about every OS X browser (Safari, Camino, Shiira, Firefox, I.E.), but OmniWeb has been the one that I now use 99.9% of the time. It took some getting used to, but it has paid off.

Yes, there are a few quirks, but the tabbed browsing windows, saved sessions, and the workspaces, my God, the workspaces! I couldn’t live without this browser.

No.81

Michael said 1420 days ago:

Safari

It has the nicest UI of all the different browsers available and I find it faster than Firefox.

No.82

Shawn said 1420 days ago:

Safari.
Despite it being a very taxing program (ever waited for your volume to adjust or for a window to close when using Safari?).

I keep Firefox up to date and use it for development but when just reading or browsing I much prefer how Safari behaves. Firefox feels very clunky on OSX. I use Firefox on both my Windows and Linux installs but can’t bring myself to enjoy it on the Mac.

I’ve also come to like Shiira quite a bit too.

No.83

Jeff Hume said 1420 days ago:

Camino Nightly.

Camino is really starting to rock again.

No.84

Chris said 1420 days ago:

Camino

I’ve been using Camino since the days when IE was the dominant browser on OS X. Nothing has been able to dislodge it from its perch yet, and with the recent improvements in the nightlies, it’s unlikely anything will any time soon.

cl

No.85

pketh said 1420 days ago:

Shiira

normally I use safari, but I’ve been loving on Shiira lately.
Looks to be a good browser, and one I wouldn’t mind using full time .. I just hope that the author implements the many small tweak suggestions on the shiira forums. Then it would truly be great

(plus, it’s hella fast on both my ibook and imac)

No.86

Matthew said 1420 days ago:

Camino Nightly for me as well.

Firefox for RSS reading because for some reason I can’t get used to using NetNewsWire or anything else.

I do use safari but because I don’t yet run Tiger (the horror) I ditch it most of the time. Safari 1.3 is pretty slow compared to Camino. Camino feels less clunky as well.

No.87

Amit Karmakar said 1420 days ago:

Safari + Saft + inquisitor + pithhelmet
Omniweb
Camino
Firefox only for testing (its way too ugly and doesn’t render colour well)

No.88

david gouch said 1420 days ago:

Safari on odd days; Camino on even days; Shiira at night; and Opera on days that start with _T_.

(I just switched to Mac and can’t figure out which one to use.)

PS. It’d be cool if you kept stats on this page to see how the visitor browser IDs compare with the votes.

No.89

William said 1420 days ago:

Safari 2.0

I prefer Safari, but I do use Firefox sometimes.

No.90

Jamison said 1420 days ago:

Safari 1.3

I enjoy the simple, clean interface and using three macs, bookmark syncing with .mac for my two personal and one work mac invaluable. I would probably use Firefox, but it has a feel like I’m using a windows app with a mac skin, but not truly a mac application (which is largely the case) so when I am using something other than Safari it’s Camino. The latest Camino releases and the .9 alpha builds have really improved performance, if there was a way to just make it use the Safari bookmarks instead of it’s own I might find myself using it more.

No.91

Sean said 1420 days ago:

Camino 0.9a

It’s simply speedy, stable, powerful with CamiTools and not bloated unlike Firefox.
I also do use Safari as much as Camino and occasionally other browsers like Shiira (as fast as Safari, but more features) and Firefox (useful when using Web Developer Tool, but too buggy for a daily use).

No.92

Lowell Wood said 1420 days ago:

Firefox

Its much more simple and basic (and faster) than safari. I also tried out camino but it dont have my extensions.

No.93

Jay Torres said 1420 days ago:

Camino nightly builds.

In my experience, the fastest browser in terms of rendering pages and start up. Plus, it’s prettier than Firefox.

No.94

Vaughan Osborne said 1420 days ago:

Safari 2.0

OS integration

No.95

Hyeonseok Shin said 1420 days ago:

Safari
Camino for test of XHTML.

No.96

Cale said 1420 days ago:

Safari
Why? Firefox is incredibly slow on my G4 iBook.

No.97

Jamie Wilkinson said 1420 days ago:

Firefox 1.0, but only because I can’t live without Web Developer Tools/Greasemonkey.

I am mere inches from learning to develop Safari plugins…

No.98

John Oxton said 1420 days ago:

You will laugh to here me say it but Safari 2.0 is my bwwwoser of choice!

No.99

John Oxton said 1420 days ago:

Sorry I shoulda read the survey properly. I like it for it’s speed on my iBook and also—the whole open zips, auto install widgets thing. Yup, the OS integration reminds me of the glory days of IE ;-)

No.100

David Stutler said 1420 days ago:

Safari

It is simple looking, simple to use, and I’m simple-minded.

No.101

Paul D said 1420 days ago:

Safari

A Camino nightly build is my back-up browser. I like it for speed, but Safari is still a more polished browser and is being improved so rapidly.

I love some of Omniweb’s features; I wish they’d work on making it as fast as Safari or Camino.

Firefox is too slow and doesn’t feel right, and the widgets are ugly as heck.

No.102

Lisa McMillan said 1420 days ago:

Safari 2.0

I use firefox for developing because of the webdeveloper tools and aardvark, but I can’t help but really love safari for browsing. Fast, pretty, good standards support, better OS integration. If only it had an easier to use aardvark-type build-in…

No.103

Brandon Arbini said 1420 days ago:

Safari 2.0

I also use Firefox for web development. But Safari is very simple and stylish.

No.104

Tom Richards said 1420 days ago:

Safari.

I use it for a variety of reasons: it’s built in RSS reader, I prefer its forward and backward shortcut buttons to those in Firefox, I like supporting Apple’s development practices with the project, and I use its CSS effects (like text shadow) in my personal pages that are not yet supported in Firefox.

No.105

Stefan said 1420 days ago:

Firefox 1.06 with GrApple (Zaphod) Theme.
Safari might be a little faster but I need all that fancy stuff like Adblock, Web Developer, Scrapbookâ€¦

No.106

Wolfgang Bartelme said 1420 days ago:

Safari 2.0
due to best OSX integration (functionality and look&feel)

No.107

claudia said 1420 days ago:

safari 2.0

plus a ton of stuff from pimpmysafari (can’t remember precisely what). i like being able to open links in new tabs with a middle click, and all those osx dictionary functions. completely annihilated firefox from my pb a few times, but it’s still there just in case for now.

No.108

Adrian D. said 1420 days ago:

Like many others, Safari 2.0 for browsing/RSS/general-lickableness and Firefox when needing the more advanced developer features.

No.109

Patrik Thors said 1420 days ago:

Safari because it looks nice and feels faster than Firefox so i use it for daily surfing, when working i use Firefox so I have access to the Web Developer Extensions.

No.110

peter royal said 1420 days ago:

safari 2.0

i love omniweb. but i want the updated engine that safari has. waiting with baited breath for an ow that build upon webkit!

No.111

Mike D. said 1420 days ago:

Safari.

Fully aquafied. Fast enough. Improving rapidly.

No.112

Jon Hicks said 1420 days ago:

#69 Brent – Hah! Siobhan was just jesting!

#100 John – You see! We got to you in the end!

No.113

sean curran said 1420 days ago:

Firefox 1.5 (deer park)

I am too used to find as you type and the extensions. I do hate however, that it doesn’t fit with everything else. I have had Safari, Omniweb and Camino as my defaults and I always seem to feel something is lacking. I am willing to give Camnio another shot, hopefully it has grown enough.

No.114

Mayo said 1420 days ago:

Safari

Nice integration into the OS (though I disable opening of “safe” files). Firefox seems too edgy, very unlike native application (for example, but not limited to, GUI widgets [text boxes, etc], spell checking, toolbar customizability [simulates native, but it’s just simulation and it’s very apparent], hate the Firefox tabs, can’t stand find as you type, etc, etc) I’ve ried Camino and few other ones, but just can’t get used to them and their interface.

No.115

Ian said 1420 days ago:

Safari

The interface is the most refined and ‘Mac-like’ – sites just look better in Safari than in other browsers. Camino is my stand-by if I’m having trouble with a site in Safari.

No.116

Kenny said 1420 days ago:

Safari.

Nothing comes close.

No.117

Michael Heilemann said 1420 days ago:

Safari. You can’t beat bookmark’s via .Mac. Also I can’t stop uding CMD-number for my bookmarks.

No.118

Gavin Sim said 1420 days ago:

Safari 2.0

No.119

Roger Johansson said 1420 days ago:

Safari.

It’s just more polished, so I use it for my everyday browsing. Firefox is a close second because of its excellent extensions, so I use that a lot when developing.

No.120

Simon said 1420 days ago:

Safari 2.0 & Saft

I aslo like omniweb, but since the version 2.0 of Safari come out, I’m not using it anymore..

No.121

Jean-Christophe said 1420 days ago:

Safari 1.3
Simple as usual by apple.

Then Firefox for developpement, as it got many extension for it.

No.122

Mark Boulton said 1420 days ago:

Safari 2.0

When Firefox first came out I used it all the time, but I’ve had so many problems with Firefox (lag, crashing and flash problems) that I ditched it and went back to the Safari 2.0. It’s fast, stable and looks nice!

No.123

Joe said 1420 days ago:

Firefox + NetNewsWire

Firefox cause of extensions and I like the idea of an open-source browser, but I think of switching to Safari every time a Flash site crashes my browser.

No.124

Philipe said 1420 days ago:

When I had a PC 5 months ago, I was using Firefox with the Sage extension. Then I bought a 15” PowerBook and Firefox doesn’t look and feel like a Mac Application. Then I started using Safari.
I’ve got the impression that it is faster and smoother. I had this experience with an image following the cursor onmousemove. On other browsers you move the cursor and some milliseconds later the image moves—but not in Safari.

Then with Tiger including the Safari RSS reader the combination was perfect. The only thing I miss in Safari is a JavaScript-console like in Firefox for developing Dashboard widgets. Does someone know if this exists or if there’s a plugin?

No.125

Anthony Shafto said 1420 days ago:

Safari 2.0
It just feels ‘right.’ The interface is clean and doesn’t feel gimicky like other available browsers. I do, however, tend to also use Firefox from time to time.

No.126

Wil said 1420 days ago:

Safari 2.0

Metal-less, and it’s great, though I hate when it forgets window position.

No.127

matt Carey said 1420 days ago:

safari 1.3

No.128

Longtime listner first time caller said 1420 days ago:

Safari 2.0
Can’t beat system-integration. Plus I’m lazy, if it ain’t broke…

No.129

Joshua Marshall said 1420 days ago:

Safari 2.0

I keep copies of Camino, Deer Park, Opera and Firefox around for testing purposes, but Safari plus a handful of plugins is what gets used day to day.

No.130

James Nash said 1420 days ago:

Safari

I think Firefox has a slightly better rendering engine and the extensions are cool and it has more features, but…

* Safari has close buttons on each tab which means I don’t need to move the mouse around so much.
* Safari is native OS X and looks and feels like it – Firefox’s GUI toolkit does a very good job of looking aqua-ish but it’s still not perfect.
* Safari can do CSS text-shadow and CSS3 multiple backgrounds! :D

No.131

Small Paul said 1420 days ago:

Safari (with Saft)

Erm, yeah. Seems snappier than Firefox. Can’t quite be bothered trying Camino. Saft remembers my tabs and stuff. Safari’s nice and minimalist, and thus Apple-like.

No.132

Paul Lloyd said 1420 days ago:

Safari 2.0

But Camino is catching up – it’s my second preferred browser on OS X, followed by Firefox, but only when I have need for the developer toolbar.

Of course on the PC it’s Firefox (Deer Park) all the way!

No.133

Junap said 1420 days ago:

Safari 2.0
Clean, simple, fast. Exactly what I need for general browsing and procrastination.
I heart Firefox, but it’s currently more useful to me as a dev app than for casual browsing.

No.134

Richard Medek said 1420 days ago:

Firefox

Oh, I really want to use Safari. It’s faster, looks better, and is a little more “Mac”... but I really like FF’s sidebar-type bookmarks and it’s fancy-schmancy plug-ins. Even when I’m just browsing around I tend to use the Web Developer Toolbar every now and then. It all comes down to those bookmarks, though.

bq. it seems to want to go back a page whenever I use the double-finger scrolling.

That’s the trackpad’s horizontal scrolling. I ended up turning off that option in the trackpad preferences.

No.135

matthew said 1420 days ago:

Safari
I have tried Firefox, Camino, iCab (remember that?) but I keep coming back to Safari for the general Macness. I do confess to using Firefox alot when Im working on websites though as the various plugins are very helpful.

No.136

Sven said 1420 days ago:

Safari 2.0

I was using OmniWeb for a while but it’s way too slow on my TiBook. I’m using Firefox whenever I need the web developers toolbar.

No.137

Terr said 1420 days ago:

In my short time as a home Mac-user, I’ve been quite a switcher when it comes to browsers.

I’ve started off with Camino, with whom I had great experiences on my older beige G3. It was justed plain fast, but it lacked a lot features I even didn’t find in the nightly build.

With 10.4 I decided to give Safari another shot. I was very satisfied with it, until Deer Park Alpha 2 came around the corner.

Being an alpha, it has some annoyancies, but in contrast to Firefox it’s fast (I always found Firefox slow on the Mac). And in comparison with Safari, I can use the extensions that make the Mozilla project so cool.

No.138

Thomas Loudon said 1420 days ago:

Omniweb
It is just brilliant. I love the tabs and the workspace system is wonderful.

No.139

Simon Zirkunow said 1420 days ago:

Safari 2.0
The other Mozilla-based browsers donâ€™t have that typical Mac-feeling. Although I like Camino nightlies for testing purposes.

No.140

Judi Sohn said 1420 days ago:

Firefox 1.x

I work on both a Mac & PC and Firefox let’s me configure browsers on both platform to be nearly indentical in bookmarks, theme and functionality.

No.141

Wade Winningham said 1420 days ago:

FireFox

I use it on both my Mac and Windows machines with similar plug-ins but have the Brushed theme installed with the Tax X Mac extenstion to make the tabs look and feel like Safari.

No.142

Hans Nilsson said 1420 days ago:

Safari

It’s the fastest one. I still use Firefox now and then, primarily when Safari won’t allow (or can’t handle) certain things on websites.

No.143

Daniel Andrews said 1420 days ago:

Safari 2.0

I try every browser under the sun on the Mac, but I always come back to Safari for it’s speed, it’s simplicity, and the fact that it is more complete and integrated than Firefox or Camino will ever be.

No.144

Terr said 1420 days ago:

As requested: My vote goes to Firefox 1.5, or Deer Park. Sorry for being unclear :)

No.145

David Brent said 1420 days ago:

Safari 2.0

The best Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger browser around. A lot better looking then Firefox as a whole but I do have an issue with Safari’s cache.

No.146

Timmargh said 1420 days ago:

Safari 2.0

No particular reason – I just prefer it to others.

No.147

Neil T. said 1420 days ago:

Only got a Mac last week and haven’t yet got internet set up at home, but I tend to lean towards Camino. I have Safari RSS and Deer Park Alpha 2; Safari is the default but I do use Deer Park now and again. It does seem to have some display issues on my Mac though and is a bit ugly – Camino is nicer on the eyes. Safari is the nicest though.

No.148

Brad Chmielewski said 1420 days ago:

Safari
Main reason I use it is for the sync features. Tried having the sync add-on for firefox and it just did not work as well. I also now use Safari as my RSS reader.
I was using firefox for awhile but always had trouble with Flash sites, so I was just gave up on it.

No.149

jgt said 1420 days ago:

Camino nightly

I like Safari a lot, but it can’t beat Camino’s speed. There are some sites (Netflix, Newegg come to mind) that Safari just can’t handle. Even on simpler sites, though, Safari’s CPU usage is much higher. I miss RSS autodiscovery, though.

No.150

Paul Groves said 1420 days ago:

Safari

Firefox on occasion.

No.151

Rob McMichael said 1420 days ago:

Safari 2.0

Still not perfect but looks great and never acts up.

No.152

Patrick Keenan said 1420 days ago:

Camino

It doesn’t freeze when I open the bookmarks menu(Like safari) and I made a custom RSS reader(better than safari)

No.153

Paul Livingstone said 1420 days ago:

Safari

Firefox is the daddy on Windows… but feels clunky as hell on OSX, and is a bit of a machine hog.
I might move over to camino, now that they’ve sorted out the ‘orrible tabs though.

No.154

bjorn said 1420 days ago:

I use Safari for most casual browsing, but find the developer extensions available for Firefox very handy when debugging xhtml or tweaking page designs.

No.155

com.users.benAlpert said 1420 days ago:

Safari, Firefox

I am a proud Apple supporter, so I use Safari most of the time, but occasionally it crashes, so I use Firefox then. The JS Console in Firefox is also better than Safari.

No.156

Scott M. said 1420 days ago:

FIREFOX

I was a diehard Safari user until 1.3 came out and all of sudden I got constant spinning beachballs and crashes. So I’ve been using Firefox.

In addition Firefox has some fantastic extensions (Web Dev toolbar, FlashBlock, AdBlock). I had previously tried a few blocking extensions for Safari (thanks to Pimpmysafari.com) but found drastic increases in processor utilization and a slower browsing experience. I’m also enjoying Firefox’s built-in ability to search History.

No.157

stevietheb said 1420 days ago:

Safari 2.0
It’s got the features I want (I admit that I don’t demand too much from my browser…tabs, RSS, a few cool extensions like Sogudi), and, so long as you remove the brushed metal it LOOKS real nice. In fact, the OS X look/feel is what’s most important to me. Yeah, I’m shallow like that.

No.158

Nelson Buster said 1420 days ago:

Safari – cause Firefox seems so slow on mac. the only case I use firefox from time to time is when I need one of the amazing pug-ins like webdeveloper tools. would be great to have something compareble for safari.

No.159

Delfin said 1420 days ago:

Safari
Mosaic: Testing purposes ;-)

I’m a Mac user. Firefox is more appropiate for Windows users.

No.160

Jenn said 1420 days ago:

Safari

I would be lost without my Autofill.

No.161

AJ said 1419 days ago:

Safari
Used to use Firefox, but recently moved, and just find it has a nicer ‘feel’ to it

No.162

Karen said 1419 days ago:

Safari 2.0

I love OmniWeb, but it is just a bit slow at present. I’m hoping that the Omni Group will fix it, as it is my favourite in terms of the features it has.

I’ve got Camino, Firefox and Opera all installed on my machine too – for the sites where Safari still doesn’t work properly, although these are increasingly IE only sites and won’t work on any other browser anyway.

No.163

Craig Davey said 1419 days ago:

Safari

For the progress bar in the address bar.

No.164

Dave Simon said 1419 days ago:

Safari 2.0 & Firefox. I switch back and forth.

I use Safari as my RSS reader and for “work” stuff, and Firefox for fun browsing and as an easy way of testing changes to CSS (with Web Developer extension.)

No.165

Joop Vos said 1419 days ago:

Safari 1.3 is my first choice … because it has the look and feel I like most … Firefox is second best … special as a webdeveloper tool … and Firefox is very good in remembering usernames, passwords, etc.

No.166

Danny said 1419 days ago:

Safari

It’s native, simple and fast!!!

No.167

Juan Carlos said 1419 days ago:

Safari

Camino has ugly back/forward icons, and I don’t like that it has folder icons on the bookmarks bar.

Firefox’s UI is still pretty clunky and lacks that native os x app feeling.

However, I do like Firefox’s DOM inspector and several extensions that Safari doesn’t have.

No.168

Terry Majamaki said 1419 days ago:

Safari has remained my primary browser, but I’ve been using Firefox for all my RSS feeds for the “Live Bookmarks” feature that I like so much. Camino has become the default browser for one site. IGN.com. Being an avid gamer, I’m always reading the message boards and I’ve found Camino to be the fastest loading on their site.

No.169

Wilson Miner said 1419 days ago:

Safari + Saft

Fast rendering + stability. I used to use Firefox at work for the developers toolbar, but the combination of increasing instability of Firefox releases and the advent of the web developer plugin for Safari made me give it up forever. Can’t wait for the new WebKit changes to make it into an official build.

No.170

Grant Kindrick said 1419 days ago:

Safari 2.0
Speed, simplicity and easy of use. I like Firefox for its plug-ins and web development tools but it just seems sluggish compared to Safari and has problems rendering Flash content.

No.171

Ryan J. Bonnell said 1419 days ago:

Safari

I use Safari for my everyday web browsing: the interface of Safari is simple, elegant, and the intergration with the Operating System — plus it has the look and feel of a great OS X app.

When I’m doing web development work, then Firefox wins hands down for it’s wonderful plug-ins and consistent rendering across all Operating Systems.

No.172

riccard0 said 1419 days ago:

Camino nightly builds,
I just love when they crash on me ;-)

No.173

Damian said 1419 days ago:

Safari

The new alpha of Camino (0.9a2) is nice, too. I haven’t tried Omni’s offering, so I can’t comment on that. But, out of curiosity, I’ve tried almost everything else. Some swear by them; others, swear at them. I simply see no reason not to use Safari: nothing else looks as good, feels as comfortable in use, renders as fast, and all-round works as well as Safari. It’s a very fine product.

No.174

Agust Atlason said 1419 days ago:

Safari 2.0

Very fast and just plain OS X app

No.175

Rutger said 1419 days ago:

Safari RSS/2.0

Safari is faster, has RSS, is very stable and just feels better on OS X.
For webdevelopment I also use Firefox (love the extensions). Also love Camino, but I wish it had extensions support.

No.176

Javan said 1419 days ago:

Firefox

Safari is prettier, but I’m too attached to the many extensions that I use.

No.177

Jaakko Knuutila said 1419 days ago:

Safari

It just has the Apple feel in it. I also use Netnewswires integrated browser, which if I understand it correctly is basically just liike Safari. Oh and Firefox is nice because of the Web developer toolbar, it’s a pitty that keyboard shortcuts tend to stop working after a while in Firefox.

No.178

Brad said 1419 days ago:

Safari 1.3

Firefox just doesn’t feel as lightweight and snappy as Safari. Also I’m too cheap to pay for any other browser.

No.179

Adam said 1419 days ago:

Firefox – as it’s the only one that works with the companies VPN/Proxy setup.
If it wasn’t for that i’d probably say Safari for browsing, Camino for developing.

No.180

Rick Tuttle said 1419 days ago:

Firefox. It runs much faster on my Tiger Powerbook than Safari, plus I have gotten hooked on the developer extensions.

No.181

Brian Morris said 1419 days ago:

Safari

Firefox as a secondary, then Camino (rarely). I also do not like using Safari as a newsreader, I enjoy my newsfeeds as a seperate entity, and nothing rocks as hard as NetNewsWire!

No.182

Ben Ward said 1419 days ago:

Safari 2

Very nicely designed, fast and the Spelling/Address book/etc. integration is a winner.

I’ve had a mixed experience with my new Mac. Safari went through a phase of ‘much crashing’ t’other week so I had a crack with the latest Camino nightly (which is very, very nice. Just needs those last few bits of OS integration – namely spell check). I looked at Firefox, but since the Mac is my secondary machine I don’t have need for the extensions and I’m an aesthetic kinda guy so the form controls are a turn off. Opera isn’t up to the task, imho, and none of the ‘smaller’ browsers have gripped me (nice as seeing Acid2 rendered in iCal is).

No.183

Chris McLeod said 1419 days ago:

Firefox

Because I use it on my Mac, XP and Linux boxes and have he same setup – without the fuss of remembering how different browsers behave/key commands, etc.

That said, I’m increasingly using both Camino and NetNewsWire, if it’s just something quick I need to check online…

No.184

Thomas said 1419 days ago:

Firefox
Extensions are key to my browsing experience.

No.185

Andy Peatling said 1419 days ago:

Safari 2.0

I use Safari at home when browsing generally as it’s so much faster than Firefox on mac, however I tend to use Firefox when developing due to the web developer plugin. It just makes like far easier.

No.186

Will Parker said 1419 days ago:

Safari 2.0, build 412.2

Whenever I find a site that has some silly script incompatibility with Safari, I fire up FireFox (current install is 1.0.3). Other than that, I haven’t used another browser on my Mac since Safari was in beta (despite being a Microsoft employee when Safari went beta).

When forced to use Windows or Linux, I fall back to the current build of FireFox.

No.187

monkey dancing shadow said 1419 days ago:

Safari 2.0 + Saft
All other browsers feel clunky in comparison, despite their various interesting features. However, without Saft, I’d still be using NewsNetWire as my default browser, just for it’s primitive saved tabs feature.

No.188

Dave said 1419 days ago:

Safari 2.0
I used to get the camino optimised nightlies when I was on OS X 10.3, but Safari 2 has a great rendering engine and the RSS support is great.

Firefox is a mess on OS X in my opinion and Opera is my favourite choice for my windows box but the mac version is poor in comparison.

No.189

Todd said 1419 days ago:

Firefox

Web Developer Toolbar. Don’t leave home without it.

No.190

Rob said 1419 days ago:

Deer Park

Middle click to open in new tab, reorderable tabs, Greasemonkey. Â´Nuff said.

No.191

Bman said 1419 days ago:

Firefox 1.0.6

It’s buggy, it’s poorly integrated with the OS, it crashes/freezes a lot, and it’s glacially slow, but it’s the only browser that has all the features I demand now.

No.192

Sunny said 1419 days ago:

Camino nightlies.

No.193

Tore Mogensen said 1419 days ago:

Safari for browsing
Firefox for developing

No.194

Tomas said 1419 days ago:

Safari

Speed

No.195

Greg Williams said 1419 days ago:

Safari
It just feels lighter and cleaner to me than Firefox. It’s purely aesthetic.

No.196

Marcus Taylor said 1419 days ago:

Safari
Hands down. Fast. Elegant. Functional. Constantly under renewal. FIrefox might be faster, but it’s just so damn ugly. I don’t bother with Internet Explorer, although I have to keep it to see how badly it renders CSS.

No.197

Jurgen said 1419 days ago:

Firefox 1.0.6
Because I think it’s the most standard compliant browser.

No.198

Nooon said 1419 days ago:

Camino nightlies

No.199

Ian Lloyd said 1419 days ago:

Firefox

It seems buggier than Safari, but I’m so darned used to using it on PC and Mac, and the Web Developer Toolbar alone is enough to make me put up with the ocassional crash. Otherwise I might use Safari.

No.200

Ben Saunders said 1419 days ago:

Firefox.

I tried switching to Safari 2.0, but found it a massive cpu hog – it was slowing my G4 Powerbook down something rotten. Shame, ‘coz it looks/feels gorgeous…

No.201

Peter van Teeseling said 1419 days ago:

Safari

2. Camino
3. Firefox
4. Shiira

No.202

Richard Rutter said 1419 days ago:

Safari 1.3

Safari for my general browsing that is, because it is so tightly integrated into everything (Mail, Shrook, etc), it’s light, fast and compliant. I use Firefox for developing, mostly because of all the tools, so that stays open almost all the time too.

No.203

Mearso said 1419 days ago:

Safari

For the unobstrusiveness (is that a word? – it is now)

No.204

nga said 1419 days ago:

Safari 2.0
+ Saft, Stand and SafariSource // but w/o metal â€¦
For web dev : Firefox 1.0.5 plus NetNewsWire for RSS

No.205

Andy Hume said 1419 days ago:

Firefox

Developer tools basically.

No.206

rich said 1419 days ago:

any chance of getting the output of this in a friendly pie chart?

(FF btw, then sometime Safari, then back to FF)

No.207

Jon Hicks said 1419 days ago:

Pie Charts and all sorts will be done on this one! I didn’t expect to get such a huge response – but it will make the results a bit more valid

No more votes for Omniweb?

No.208

gpshewan said 1419 days ago:

Safari

But I have to use Firefox when booking online sometimes, not sure if that’s the fault of the vendor or something explicit with Safari. I prefer Safari even though it sometimes likes to go belly up after a long session ;)

No.209

jasonk said 1419 days ago:

Safari 2.0
Faster than anything else, RSS and dev tools give me all I need. Tried hard to love Firefox, but Tiger upgrade killed it’s speed

No.210

Laura said 1419 days ago:

FireFox
The developer extensions are great.

No.211

James Adams said 1419 days ago:

Firefox
Web Developer Extenstion of course.

No.212

Dave Gregory said 1419 days ago:

Can’t beat the developer extentions. Web developer, Colorzilla and the ruler thingie.

No.213

Jason Lippert said 1419 days ago:

OmniWeb
Shortcuts, saved state, workspaces and the zoomed text editor are missed whenever I try to use another browser.

No.214

Anna said 1419 days ago:

Camino Nightly at the moment.

No.215

Nell said 1419 days ago:

Safari 2.0.
Firefox feels sluggish in my Mac. I missed some Firefox features until I found SafariStand and Acid Search.

No.216

Justin P said 1418 days ago:

Safari.
I used to use Firefox but when I upgraded to Tiger I never got around to installing Firefox again. Safari can do everything (and then some) that Firefox can do.

No.217

Angie said 1418 days ago:

Firefox…

Primarily. Love the web developer toolbar. If Safari had that I’d go back to it… I use Safari for RSS and like most everyone else, I love how Safari looks and feels. FF is clunky, but it works.

No.218

Brady J. Frey said 1418 days ago:

Still find myself in Safari exclusively, but I usedFirefox for web designer extensions off and on—if those worked on Chimera, I’d be on it way more often. Delicious bookmarks have made it easier for me to bounce around, though.

Netnewswire for RSS, just because of all the posts about RSS, I don’t care for Safari’s, I need more power, man!

No.219

Eric said 1418 days ago:

Safari
If Firefox was as fast and light feeling, had emacs key mappings in the text fields, and also had the iSpell functionality built in and didn’t require an additional plug-in, then I’d use it more (I still use it for Gmail since it works better for me in there than it does in Safari).

No.220

oneighturbo said 1418 days ago:

typing away on FireFox…

since im only on OSX at workie, i tend to use safari a bit more just because i use FF on all my PC’s want to keep up ; )

I do like the fact that I can have the same extensions, UI etc from Mac to PC using FF. Fav extension being Bookmarks Synchronizer. This allow all my FF’s to be identical ; )

No.221

SFBlue said 1418 days ago:

Safari

I love Firefox on the PC but don’t like FF’s font rendering of small type on the Mac.

No.222

Ploink said 1418 days ago:

I keep coming back to Firefox, love the extensions. Sometimes Safari.

No.223

Alexis said 1418 days ago:

You should have made this a poll such as on http://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2005/08/the-polls-are-in

But then again it wouldn’t take into account the fact that I use Safari (with PithHelmet of course) on a daily basis and Firefox when developing sites for its use of extensions.

No.224

Alexis said 1418 days ago:

and only to save you the time in having to compile the results and save you the trouble of deciphering some peoples comments such as I like both.

No.225

JJ said 1418 days ago:

safari

but i cant stay away from firefox for too long. i always seem to make my way back to firefox.

No.226

Patrick said 1418 days ago:

Firefox

I’m annoyed at how wonky it is sometimes on OS X, but I need the cross-platform predicatbility—if I couldn’t synchronize my bookmarks between my Powerbook and my Windows PCs at home and work, I would be lost.

No.227

Lode said 1418 days ago:

Firefox

If only for the Web developer toolbar, and lots of other neat extensions.
Sometimes I wind op using Safari, when it’s launched following a link an in application like Mail (Still haven’t figured out how to set Firefox as my default browser), but after a few minutes I get an unconfortable feeling, and I go back to Firefox.

I’ve tried Camino in the past, but found it too unstable. Perhaps I should try again, to get the best of both worlds.

No.228

Chris Neale said 1418 days ago:

Unfortunately, I’m not using any; since my Mac Cube has decided, that no matter which video card is present, to not display anything on any monitor CRT or LCD – it’s otherwise working fine …

No.229

Gabriel Radic said 1418 days ago:

Safari + Stand .

No.230

Nick said 1418 days ago:

Camino nightly build. Faster, cleaner and lighter than Firefox and Safari. Firefox IS nice because of the extensions, but I have a feeling Camino will be there soon.

No.231

John Blaze said 1418 days ago:

Camino nightlies for the G4… it’s just faster. Safaris’ bookmark freezes for a second which kills sufing time. The Webkit nightlies for Safari look interesting though.

No.232

Aias Cienfuegos said 1418 days ago:

i find camino faster and more stable than safari. but i see that this whole bundling of browsers with operating system is resulting with a lot of votes for safari. i leave camino periodically, but i always come crawling back.

No.233

Steve Ivy said 1418 days ago:

Firefox 1.0.6

Still has the best set of features, including the indespensible Web Developer Toolbar extension. Still prefer font rendering and forms in safari though.

No.234

Alec Riedl said 1418 days ago:

Safari

I agree with others that Firefox rules on the PC, but I find that my expectations are different on the Mac, and that Safari does a much better job of filling those for me. When I use Firefox on a Mac I feel like I’m still working on a PC.

No.235

Jon Hicks said 1418 days ago:

Excellent – keep them coming

No.236

Ross t said 1418 days ago:

Safari 2

Although I use Camino nightly build alot.

No.237

MH said 1418 days ago:

Firefox…
because it has such great development features & extensions. I actually like the look & feel (I use the GRapple Pro theme). It seems more “grown-up” than Safari. It’s also my RSS reader (via the Sage extension). I do find it a little slower than Safari, though.

No.238

Mark said 1418 days ago:

Safari for RSS
Firefox for browsing

Why? Long-term follower of the Mozilla project, oh and no regexp adblock for Safari like Firefox has (and no, pith-helmet etc. does NOT do it, and until it does, Firefox will be it! So there!)

Oh yeah: Hicks, did you know your RSS feed comes thru well f’ed on Safari? I get plain-text HTML source when reading your RSS feed

No.239

f.pradignac said 1418 days ago:

FireFox

With Sage – Checky – Web Developper – MeasureIt and GrApple(Brushed).

No.240

j. lindsay said 1417 days ago:

Safari

Speed. I used to use Firefox, but got feed up with how slow it is on OSX.

No.241

Bob Noss said 1417 days ago:

Another vote for Shiira.

I’ve been giving it a go as my main browser for a while and I like it quite a bit. It’s very fast, and the tab expose thing is pretty cool.

I think Safari is excellent, but I find I need to restart it from time to time or it bogs down my system. I probably split my time between Shiira and Safari these days. To be fair, I haven’t started using Safari 2.0 yet.

I also like Firefox quite a bit, but I agree that it’s not very Mac-like at times.

It’s just nice to have so many quality choices

No.242

Jorge Luna said 1417 days ago:

Firefox

I can’t live without the Developer Toolbar, and I use Sage for RSS. I like Safari’s “copy image” option when ctrl-clicking on an image. Excellent for importing into PS without saving the image.

No.243

Peter Asquith said 1417 days ago:

Safari with Firefox for the pages that Safari has a problem displaying.

No.244

Chris Bailey said 1417 days ago:

I’ve standardized on Opera (8.02 as of this writing) across all my machines (Mac, Windows, Linux). I miss the bookmark synchronizer from Firefox, but don’t miss anything else, and nothing is as fast as Opera (including Safari, etc.). Opera on Mac is my primary browsing platform (as Mac is my primary work platform right now).

No.245

since1968 said 1417 days ago:

Safari 2.0 + Saft
* Fast
* Stable
* Attractive
* I like the fact that form controls can’t be styled.

Although I must admit I have to use Firefox for a few sites (such as my credit union) where Safari just won’t work.

No.246

Jason Granger said 1417 days ago:

Safari all the way!

No.247

Uncle Asad said 1417 days ago:

Camino nightlies

Fastest browser on the Mac, solid, clean (and Aqua!) UI, strong Mac OS X integration, a good set of features and decently extensible. The sweet spot in Mac OS X web-browsing :-)

I couldn’t really stomach the old tabs, but once the new tabs landed and someone pointed out the wonders of userContent.css, Camino jumped into my Dock. And Camino nightlies are rock-solid 99% of the time…just wow!

I also want to give a shout-out to iCab 3, which still handles my web archiving, any downloading/saving where I need a URL preserved, auto-refresh of local pages on save, or when I want to see the Acid2 test passed :-)

No.248

sr said 1417 days ago:

Safari

Love some of the extensions of Firefox, but on OS X Safari seems to fit much better into the os’s environment.

No.249

Martin Proud said 1417 days ago:

Safari

I like the tabs much better in Safari. UI controls are consistent and RSS in v2.0 is an added bonus. Also, the window is unobtrusive â€” the address bar doesn’t take up half the window.

No.250

Lode said 1417 days ago:

Camino (nightly builds!)

For all the great reasons mentioned above, great look too, better than Safari for sure!

No.251

Abhinay Mehta said 1417 days ago:

Firefox
Because of extensions and the fact that I use it on my linux machine as well, so I know all the short-cuts and features etc.

No.252

Fred Oliveira said 1417 days ago:

Firefox. Safari’s good too, and I like how it’s lightweight, but I don’t like how Safari (and Omniweb which is based on the same framework) use Aqua controls over standard web widgets.

No.253

Brian Pennington said 1416 days ago:

Safari 2.0
I use Firefox some but I love Safari’s bookmark management, and other than that there isn’t enough difference in Firefox to make me switch completely

No.254

Paul Ledbrook said 1416 days ago:

Safari, no wait, firefox, errm hold on, Safari!

Tricky one that. Have to say Safari for general browsing and link collecting the Firefox for stuff like bank sites as it seems to be a lot quicker than Safari on those. Just started using Bookit to regulate all my bookmarks through all my browser – very cool!

No.255

Robin said 1416 days ago:

Firefox – g5 optimised nightlies with custom widgets :)

Safari’s good but not as nippy as current trunk Firefox builds imho. Also being a relatively new Mac user I don’t think I’ve quite so perturbed by ‘Mac-ness’ as other people here.

No.256

Mike Serieys said 1415 days ago:

Camino

I am using a recent alpha build and it’s just got something excellent about it. I am a polygamous browser user with Safari Camino and Firefox often open simultaneously, but right now Camino’s giving off the best aura.

No.257

Sebastian Schmieg said 1415 days ago:

Firefox

I tried Safari after switching to the Mac world but it’s butt ugly (brushed steel?!) and also Stop/Refresh as one single button doesn’t work for me. It’s not like there isn’t enough space for one more button. Another thing I don’t like is that there is a close button on every single tab.

However when it comes to Flash, Firefox (Mac only) has some serious problems.