whats a good web browser for mac? im running camino right now, but it absolutely sucks. i've read reports of how "fast" it was. it was good in the beginning...but lately ive been getting a lot of "failed to open" messages. mozilla runs slow for me. back to safari for me????
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whats a good web browser for mac? im running camino right now, but it absolutely sucks. i've read reports of how "fast" it was. it was good in the beginning...but lately ive been getting a lot of "failed to open" messages. mozilla runs slow for me. back to safari for me????
Camino does not suck. To the contrary, it is an excellent browser. If you are having trouble with Camino, then the problem lies either with the sites that you are visiting or with your network access.
It's terrible. It's slow, widgets are ugly, it renders fonts all wrong, it can't scroll to the right spot for anchors, the pop-up blocker both doesn't work all the time and is as annoying as a pop-up itself.
Why is Firefox popular again? It's slow and bug-ridden.
i like camino's bookmarking features.
I just picked up Camino too and like it's bookmarking features and the way it actually diplays the pages correctly. Safari seems to render things a little wonky.
... Safari seems to render things a little wonky.
With rare exception, I see no difference in how Safari and Camino render pages. Could you give a link to a page which the two browsers render differently?
I'm using Firefox temporarily—I need to do a reinstall, but for some reason Safari and Preview crash instantly for me right now.
It's terrible. It's slow, widgets are ugly, it renders fonts all wrong, it can't scroll to the right spot for anchors, the pop-up blocker both doesn't work all the time and is as annoying as a pop-up itself.
Why is Firefox popular again? It's slow and bug-ridden.
i haven't seen many bugs, but i really DESPISE how it takes 26 bounces in the dock to start up (first time). what a POS. Safari takes 2 at most.
I only use Firefox because I like the interface better than Safari and the ability to use Sage for RSS. Other than that, I hate it for its slow start times.
With rare exception, I see no difference in how Safari and Camino render pages. Could you give a link to a page which the two browsers render differently?
Wikipedia. Also, http://www.zeldman.com/2006/11/27/safari-beats-firefox/
Wikipedia. Also, http://www.zeldman.com/2006/11/27/safari-beats-firefox/
I asked for a link to an actual page which displayed the problem, not one about users kwvetching about the problem. This page displays great--even Eastern scripts--on my installations of Camino and Safari.
I asked for a link to an actual page which displayed the problem, not one about users kwvetching about the problem. This page displays great--even Eastern scripts--on my installations of Camino and Safari.
Have you seriously never been to Wikipedia?
Additionally, isn't one "kwvetching" about the problem more helpful then you poking through for all the mistakes yourself?
I asked for a link to an actual page which displayed the problem, not one about users kwvetching about the problem. This page displays great--even Eastern scripts--on my installations of Camino and Safari.
Try http://www.packaging.com in Foxfire (XP), IE (XP) and Camino. All the same. Then use Safari. Rubbish.
Why is Firefox popular again? It's slow and bug-ridden.
I personally don't find it slow at all, start-up notwithstanding.
Extensions: Adblock Plus, greasemonkey, Web Developer toolbar, etc etc.
RSS: My RSS feeds in my toolbar, when clicked, show a list of descending recent headlines. I can tell at a glance what stories I want to read, and the link, when clicked, takes me to the article's page. Contrast this with Safari's ghetto approach to RSS.
There are other reasons, but these two are the deal-clinchers for me.
I've tried every OS X browser, I think. I use Safari.
Same here. I kept going back to Firefox now and again because people just kept raving on and on about it but I found it to be less stable, slow to launch and didn't really offer any benefits for me over Safari. Sure, I could install some add-ons but I rarely used them and they weren't all compatible with each other.
Some little things about Safari that are overlooked are things like the animated icon on files that has the progress bar in it so I don't have to even go into Safari to see how much is left to go. Other browsers display downloads as the file type, so often I've seen people trying to open files before they finish and get an error.
Being able to properly resume files in Safari too is great. If the downloads could load as a tab it would be even better but I am very pleased with the download management.
Then there's webarchives - no more of Firefox's saving a .html and a folder, it's all neat in one file so I can move it without losing the content.
Since Camino is based on the same engine as Firefox, I consider them both very similar.
I've tried Opera, Omniweb, Firefox, Camino, Shiira and I kept coming back to Safari.
Try http://www.packaging.com in Foxfire (XP), IE (XP) and Camino. All the same. Then use Safari. Rubbish.
i've went to www.packaging.com with both safari and firefox (OSX) and didnt really see any big differences.
Have you seriously never been to Wikipedia?
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This might come as a surprise to you, but Wikipedia is not an authority. Don't believe me? Turn in a paper to a professor using the website as a reference.
Try http://www.packaging.com in Foxfire (XP), IE (XP) and Camino. All the same. Then use Safari. Rubbish.
Been there, done that, got the tee-shirt. What I didn't get was any visible difference between Camino's and Safari's rendering of the page. Try again?
This might come as a surprise to you, but Wikipedia is not an authority. Don't believe me? Turn in a paper to a professor using the website as a reference.
I'm sorry, but, are you really this dense? Wikipedia is an example of a website that, try as it might, Firefox just doesn't have the capacity to render properly.