What's the best browser for OS X

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  • Reply 21 of 40
    logan calelogan cale Posts: 1,281member
    So am I. I'm building a 5' thick plastic box around you.
  • Reply 22 of 40
    machiavelmachiavel Posts: 6member
    To my surprise, IE has proved the best browser on X. It's fast, stable, and has most of the features I like, especially autofill. I liked icab on OS 9, because you could save entire pages, images and all, without all the downloading crap you get in IE. But the icab for X is just too feature impoverished to stand up to IE. Omniweb appears to be the web browser of choice for many Mac OS X users, especially those who detest Microsoft. But I have found Omni a bit on the slow side. Opera is about as fast as IE, but it keeps crashing on me, so I had to give it up (though there were many things I like about it). You don't want to ever use Netscape in X. It is unbelievably slow.
  • Reply 23 of 40
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    machiavel , when you tried OmniWb was it the 4.1 beta or was it 4.0.x? Because 4.1 is much faster and I think that it's a little faster than IE.
  • Reply 24 of 40
    whyatt thrashwhyatt thrash Posts: 421member
    I take back everything bad I've ever thought about omniweb. The 4.1 PB looks great, and even has a new cool icon...



    I might use this as a first-choice browser even, will have to use it a while to look for any unbearable quirks but it looks much improved.
  • Reply 25 of 40
    onlookeronlooker Posts: 5,252member
    OS X BROWSERS]



    I must be missing something about omniweb here. I installed it recently, and I keep filling out crash reports. I don't like it. + it's featureless.



    I like IE because of the favorites, and history are easy to access, and I have @hyperlinks to the sites I visit most right at the top of my browser window. Toolbar customization is good too. I keep add as favorite in mine. It's handy, and I can drop it (a recently added favorite) into a custom folder that suits it in no time at all.

    Personaly It's not my favorite, but I do use it the most for those reasons.



    My favorite is an early OS X version of Opera Beta. It's by far the fastest browser, and I can use an alternate DownloadManager, but I don't like the seperate bookmark window, and it seems that if I were to customize it - it would take hours. But it is my favorite, and I'm thinking it over while I test a recently downloaded version of Netscape X, and it's starting to grow on me.



    I like iCab, but it's slow compared to everything else accept for OmniWeb Which is the slowest.



    Mozilla, well it's on hold until I decide if I like the new Netscape.



    So for me it's Opera, and IE for right now.

  • Reply 26 of 40
    a holcka holck Posts: 20member
    OmniWeb SP28 is pretty good
  • Reply 27 of 40
    onlookeronlooker Posts: 5,252member
    Ooh my GOD! I am such an idiot for not checking out that browser sooner. I guess it was the crash reports that shook me off. I started thinking about looking it over after all the good reviews posted above, and I think I have a new default browser. The customization alone makes it worth it. I just imported all my favorites from IE, and loaded them into one folder in the browser window toolbar. I'm not sure, but I don't think you can do that in IE. Opera is still faster, but the download manager seems pretty quick so far. I only downloaded a few small app's from Caffeine software, and it seemed relatively quick. It's using the spell checker from my Mail app right now. How cool is that!



    EDIT] JUST filled out another crash report though, I'm sure they are working on a newer version.



    [ 01-17-2002: Message edited by: onlooker ]</p>
  • Reply 28 of 40
    noahjnoahj Posts: 4,503member
    I use OMNIWEB SneakyPeek XX (the latest avaialable) for most everything. It only gets better. A few times the latest SP will revert to a new problem but it is usually quickly fixed by a new version a day or so later. It began crashing on sites where certain cookies were set, but in the latest version this has not happened. I love it. IE is my backup as the others are too slow to use or too feature incomplete. I used to use mozilla 0.94 but I got over it...
  • Reply 29 of 40
    macsrockmacsrock Posts: 53member
    omniweb rocks(only the sneakypeak)

    ie is my backup



    i wont touch the the others <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
  • Reply 30 of 40
    kim kap solkim kap sol Posts: 2,987member
    The latest OmniWeb sneaky peeks beat every other browsers hands down.



    The latest OmniWeb is pretty fast...faster than IE, not as fast as the mach-o Mozilla builds. But the features far outweigh the small speed hit and compatibility issues. If Omni can get OW to render more pages correctly, there shouldn't be any contest between browsers anymore...and Apple would be stoopid not to bundle it with 10.2
  • Reply 31 of 40
    macsrockmacsrock Posts: 53member
    omniweb rocks(only the sneakypeak)

    netscape is my backup



    i wont touch the the others <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />



    i just deleted ie cause i hate M$



    [ 01-26-2002: Message edited by: macsrock ]</p>
  • Reply 32 of 40
    sizzle chestsizzle chest Posts: 1,133member
    How many of you are able (or unable) to access your online banking using OmniWeb? My Wells Fargo online banking tells me I need to use a "supported browser" when I try to log in using Omni Web. IE works fine.
  • Reply 33 of 40
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    No matter how great OmniWeb is getting I won't use it as my main browser until it works with all the sites IE does. The site I've had the most problems with in OmniWeb is my school's site.
  • Reply 34 of 40
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    OmniWeb used to work fine with Wachovia, but the online account system has changed slightly and no longer works properly. I can log in just fine using 4.1sp28, but the pages are filled with javascript errors and undefined variables.



  • Reply 35 of 40
    richard788richard788 Posts: 33member
    OmniWeb can't even make my cursor into a hand (you know what I mean) when hovering on a link. It sometimes takes seconds. This on a PBG4 667Mhz.



    This slugishness prevents me from using it full time despite all the anti-aliasing in the world...



    Now, where's IE6?



    [ 01-18-2002: Message edited by: richard788 ]</p>
  • Reply 36 of 40
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    [quote]Originally posted by richard788:

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    Now, where's IE6?



    [ 01-18-2002: Message edited by: richard788 ]</strong><hr></blockquote>



    That's what I'd like to know.
  • Reply 37 of 40
    power applepower apple Posts: 335member
    I hate to bash on Omniweb, because I really like the browser and see it's potential, but it still has a long way to go.



    On a side note, am I the only one who gets a crash in sp28 when clicking on the "store" pane at <a href="http://www.apple.com"; target="_blank">http://www.apple.com</a>; ??
  • Reply 38 of 40
    power applepower apple Posts: 335member
    weird...I got a crash two times in a row, and now it seems to work again... <img src="confused.gif" border="0">
  • Reply 39 of 40
    michaelm8000michaelm8000 Posts: 297member
    OmniWeb all the way!! It is so Mac like.





    By the way I just got a job at Omni last week. I am working on humaninterfaces with Rick Row and Tech Support. it is really fun.
  • Reply 40 of 40
    macwaymacway Posts: 55member
    The lastest build of Mozilla totally rocks. Snappy, stable and does a good job following the standards out there. Omniweb has too much blur to it I think, and feels slow (not at rendering pages).
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