The system spell-checker doesn't support my language; how do I use spellcheck?
This is also really an OS issue, but people are already asking us, or filing bugs to make us switch to myspell :-(
* The same way you use spellcheck in any other Mac OS X: you install a plugin to the Mac OS X spelling system that provides a dictionary for your language! cocoAspell supports dictionaries for 74 languages; for Hungarian speakers, MySpellX adds Hungarian to the system spell-checker, and for Hebrew speakers, Hebrew Spelling Service plugs Hspell into the system spell-checker.
iam a recent switcher, i have tried most of the ones you listed above, safari+inquisitor is the best web browsing platform i have come across.
Funny, I didn't like Safari and still don't because of the layout, and I am so use to Firefox/Opera now.
But sorry guys -- I don't have internet on my Mac, so I can't continue my tests until later this week. But so far, Opera was winning over OmniWeb (no surprise there).
The next browsers to be tested will be....Safari/Firefox.
On my Macs, there are only three browsers that I use, Safari, Firefox and iCab.
iCab is the only one that still supports previous versions of the Mac OS, and one of the few that passed the Acid2 test. You could say that iCab is the Safari for OS9.
I find Safari faster and less bloated than Firefox, but Firefox render some pages better than Safari.
But again like it's been said, these problems are due to web designers still stock on the Internet Explorer groove dismissing standards.
I happen to prefer Camino, but a number of my friends actually prefer Firefox on the Mac. Dunno why. They even can't explain it to me.
IMO, Mac users who like Firefox owe it to themselves to try a recent stable build of Camino. Some recent trunk builds were scary.
agreed. Camino was apparently written for OS X, and I think Firefox was a port? I could be wrong, but I remember there were definite reasons why Camino was made. I like it A LOT better then Firefox, I think it runs so much better, and compatibility wise, you don't run into a lot of problems.
I've been running camino now for a couple of weeks. At first flip4mac acted kinda strange. Got a flip update and reinstalled camino and now they play nice. I'm liking camino so much it's now on my dock. I'll probably use safari from time to time but for everyday browsing I think I like camino best.
Bleh, all browsers are resource hogs, Safari included.
Firefox eventually became too unstable to like a lot on my PC, so I stayed far away from it when I bought my Macbook. Safari is Resource Hog supreme, and Camino crashes more often.
These days I just use Nightly Builds of WebKit inside of Safari.
I'm using flock right now. I just wanted to throw that one out there. Flock is great for its well tied in web2.0 stuff, like flickr, delicious, blog support, and news aggregation. All browsers do a pretty good job of building a page nowadays; theres little reason to compare them on that. If you have a relatively new Mac, you have plenty of "resources" to waste on whatever browser you want. I want features!
I'm using flock right now. I just wanted to throw that one out there. Flock is great for its well tied in web2.0 stuff, like flickr, delicious, blog support, and news aggregation. All browsers do a pretty good job of building a page nowadays; theres little reason to compare them on that. If you have a relatively new Mac, you have plenty of "resources" to waste on whatever browser you want. I want features!
Yeah but the pre release versions are not very stable, it's ultimately Firefox wrapped in a Web 2.0* extension, and in the end I find myself turning back to Quicksilver, TextMate, Vienna, and that little Bookmarks Button del.icio.us provides. Development is also painfully slow, I think it's been in the 0.7.x branch for a year now... or almost a year anyways. -_-
Sebastian
* Washes mouth out to get the taste of Idiotic Hype out of my mouth (Yes I'm throughly Anti Web 2.0)
Amen, and I thought I was alone. It can turn your hard drive to a tommy gun spitting swap files, if not quit and restarted after a few days, although this depends on the usage.
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and Camino crashes more often.
Not my experience at all. For me Camino is far more stable than Safari, which seems quite sensitive when much disk activity (swapping) is involved.
Amen, and I thought I was alone. It can turn your hard drive to a tommy gun spitting swap files, if not quit and restarted after a few days, although this depends on the usage.
Agreed
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Not my experience at all. For me Camino is far more stable than Safari, which seems quite sensitive when much disk activity (swapping) is involved.
I don't usually have a lot of Disk Activity, but Camino has crashed far more often than Safari, even with nightly builds of WebKit running instead of the normal Safari.
The number of crashes with Camino still isn't much, but it's the only browser on my Mac other than Flock and Firefox that's crashed.
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Originally Posted by backtomac
I'd agree with that and add that Camino seems faster as well.
Definitely, Safari has a 1 second delay before it starts rendering the page, but Camino in my tests is definitely faster. Speed just isn't the only thing that matters in a browser though.
Sebastian
(Wishing Apple will update Safari to handle Tabs like Firefox in Leopard)
I don't usually have a lot of Disk Activity, but Camino has crashed far more often than Safari, even with nightly builds of WebKit running instead of the normal Safari.
The number of crashes with Camino still isn't much, but it's the only browser on my Mac other than Flock and Firefox that's crashed.
Definitely, Safari has a 1 second delay before it starts rendering the page, but Camino in my tests is definitely faster. Speed just isn't the only thing that matters in a browser though.
Sebastian
(Wishing Apple will update Safari to handle Tabs like Firefox in Leopard)
I can't remember one time Camino crashed on me, that's strange.
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Safari has spell checking. Edit-->Spelling
True! Thanks for pointing that out. Wonder why it is not on by default?
Evo
The system spell-checker doesn't support my language; how do I use spellcheck?
This is also really an OS issue, but people are already asking us, or filing bugs to make us switch to myspell :-(
* The same way you use spellcheck in any other Mac OS X: you install a plugin to the Mac OS X spelling system that provides a dictionary for your language! cocoAspell supports dictionaries for 74 languages; for Hungarian speakers, MySpellX adds Hungarian to the system spell-checker, and for Hebrew speakers, Hebrew Spelling Service plugs Hspell into the system spell-checker.
Safari has spell checking. Edit-->Spelling
So does Firefox -- which means any browser will check your spelling. Just like now, I have misspelled "Browser", and Firefox is telling me.
Hmmm
Safari tends to be faster, although often crashes and is instable. Firefox has very userful add-ons out there.
iam a recent switcher, i have tried most of the ones you listed above, safari+inquisitor is the best web browsing platform i have come across.
Funny, I didn't like Safari and still don't because of the layout, and I am so use to Firefox/Opera now.
But sorry guys -- I don't have internet on my Mac, so I can't continue my tests until later this week. But so far, Opera was winning over OmniWeb (no surprise there).
The next browsers to be tested will be....Safari/Firefox.
iCab is the only one that still supports previous versions of the Mac OS, and one of the few that passed the Acid2 test. You could say that iCab is the Safari for OS9.
I find Safari faster and less bloated than Firefox, but Firefox render some pages better than Safari.
But again like it's been said, these problems are due to web designers still stock on the Internet Explorer groove dismissing standards.
I happen to prefer Camino, but a number of my friends actually prefer Firefox on the Mac. Dunno why. They even can't explain it to me.
IMO, Mac users who like Firefox owe it to themselves to try a recent stable build of Camino. Some recent trunk builds were scary.
agreed. Camino was apparently written for OS X, and I think Firefox was a port? I could be wrong, but I remember there were definite reasons why Camino was made. I like it A LOT better then Firefox, I think it runs so much better, and compatibility wise, you don't run into a lot of problems.
Firefox eventually became too unstable to like a lot on my PC, so I stayed far away from it when I bought my Macbook. Safari is Resource Hog supreme, and Camino crashes more often.
These days I just use Nightly Builds of WebKit inside of Safari.
Sebastian
I'm using flock right now. I just wanted to throw that one out there. Flock is great for its well tied in web2.0 stuff, like flickr, delicious, blog support, and news aggregation. All browsers do a pretty good job of building a page nowadays; theres little reason to compare them on that. If you have a relatively new Mac, you have plenty of "resources" to waste on whatever browser you want. I want features!
Yeah but the pre release versions are not very stable, it's ultimately Firefox wrapped in a Web 2.0* extension, and in the end I find myself turning back to Quicksilver, TextMate, Vienna, and that little Bookmarks Button del.icio.us provides. Development is also painfully slow, I think it's been in the 0.7.x branch for a year now... or almost a year anyways. -_-
Sebastian
* Washes mouth out to get the taste of Idiotic Hype out of my mouth (Yes I'm throughly Anti Web 2.0)
Safari is Resource Hog supreme
Amen, and I thought I was alone. It can turn your hard drive to a tommy gun spitting swap files, if not quit and restarted after a few days, although this depends on the usage.
and Camino crashes more often.
Not my experience at all. For me Camino is far more stable than Safari, which seems quite sensitive when much disk activity (swapping) is involved.
Not my experience at all. For me Camino is far more stable than Safari, which seems quite sensitive when much disk activity (swapping) is involved.
I'd agree with that and add that Camino seems faster as well.
I'd agree with that and add that Camino seems faster as well.
Agreed on second point too. But I have not numbers to tell if this is just how it feels or if indeed Camino renders faster than Safari.
Amen, and I thought I was alone. It can turn your hard drive to a tommy gun spitting swap files, if not quit and restarted after a few days, although this depends on the usage.
Agreed
Not my experience at all. For me Camino is far more stable than Safari, which seems quite sensitive when much disk activity (swapping) is involved.
I don't usually have a lot of Disk Activity, but Camino has crashed far more often than Safari, even with nightly builds of WebKit running instead of the normal Safari.
The number of crashes with Camino still isn't much, but it's the only browser on my Mac other than Flock and Firefox that's crashed.
I'd agree with that and add that Camino seems faster as well.
Definitely, Safari has a 1 second delay before it starts rendering the page, but Camino in my tests is definitely faster. Speed just isn't the only thing that matters in a browser though.
Sebastian
(Wishing Apple will update Safari to handle Tabs like Firefox in Leopard)
Wishing Apple will update Safari to handle Tabs like Firefox in Leopard
What's the difference?
What's the difference?
Undo Close Tab
and more to the point:
Drag and Drop Tabs
Sebastian
Agreed
I don't usually have a lot of Disk Activity, but Camino has crashed far more often than Safari, even with nightly builds of WebKit running instead of the normal Safari.
The number of crashes with Camino still isn't much, but it's the only browser on my Mac other than Flock and Firefox that's crashed.
Definitely, Safari has a 1 second delay before it starts rendering the page, but Camino in my tests is definitely faster. Speed just isn't the only thing that matters in a browser though.
Sebastian
(Wishing Apple will update Safari to handle Tabs like Firefox in Leopard)
I can't remember one time Camino crashed on me, that's strange.
and more to the point:
Drag and Drop Tabs
A la Omniweb?