There are few web browsers available for your Mac and am wondering which you personally use and what you like the best about it over other browsers?
Here are the list of known browsers for OS X:
* Safari: My personal favorite
* Shiira: My second favorite
* Camino
* Firefox
If I am missing a broswer from the list, let me know and I’ll be happy to add it.
I agree w/ Tayler.
Firefox is no doubt the most favorite web browser for tech savvy for Mac/PC.
I agree and are on same path as Tayler says.
Firefox is no doubt the most favorite web browser for tech savvy for Mac/PC.
I’ve been using Safari ever since when it got released for the first time. I love everything about it. I am looking forward to Safari 3 mainly because of moveable tabs. Also, I cannot wait to create my own dashboard widgets out of Safari 3 in Leopard.
Too bad that the home value search engine : http://www.Zillow.com doesn’t work on Safari. And that’s only time I use Firefox to view it.
Shiira looks nifty. *tests it out*
As for me, Firefox 2 is my primary browser, and always has been.
Dustin, not only did I “help” you convert to the Macintosh, I also played a role in converting you to Firefox 2! :)
Hello and welcome, Daveynin! Care to share with us why Firefox is your favorite? Standards support?
Apple did a great job in creating the web browser Safari. I love this browser since day one. Its small, fast and offers a wonderful interface. Righty. Safari isn’t perfect. Not surprise that safari will developers to make some of remark in near future. that is my personal favorite. My second firefox is only time i can open for some reasons.
RIght now i am playing with Shiira (actually Shiira is interesting. Very similar to Safari as well.) I will check on Camino later on. Thanks Chad.
What about Flock, NetNewsWire and GranParadiso?
I am using GranParadiso right now and NetNewsWire too! GranParadiso is newest (Firefox 3) it is alpha but perfect running. All browsers are supported and build-in RSS, GrandParadiso much better for RSS feed save to anywhere app or net
Firefox is powerful security against phishing and spyware, very stable app.
IE7, baby! ;)
I’m surprised no one else has mentioned Opera. Is this supported on the Mac?
I have both Firefox and Safari. I love Firefox for the very same reasons mentioned in comment #1. Safari is limited and doesn’t have very many features. Yahoo mail beta version doesn’t run on Safari, which is another reason why I use Firefox.
Safari is my favorite and Mozilla-made SeaMonkey because it has newsgroups that I use for my University of Phoenix classes. Thunderbird is also good, but I like SeaMonkey better for no reason! :) I have used Opera and it’s so annoying! You could tell by the feeling of it.
I usually use Firefox, mostly because I’m a web designer and this browser is less buggy than other browsers and more compatible with the W3C standards. It’s best for designing default code before testing other browsers and adding code to ensure cross-browser compatibility.
Firefox have excellent plug-ins functions that manage my life & job easier – My top three: Firebug, Web Developer and del.icio.us.
The reason I am using most recent version of del.icio.us plug-in in both Mac and PC, to share my personalize bookmarks in four different location (yes, four different machines I am using Firefox. Does Safari, IE and few other web browsers have this feature? I doubt. I am not kind of dumb enough for not adding bank website in del.icio.us.
Firefox supports several software standards, such as HTML/XHTML, XML, CSS, JS, DOM, DTD, XSLT, XPath, MathML. Pasted those from Wikipedia.
Dearly Christopher Sano, Yup, Mac OS X support Opera web browser, check this out in http://www.opera.com (you can see Mac OS X download, if u’re using Mac OS X)
SeaMonkey web browser also support OS X. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/
Anyone need brushed metal theme for Firefox? Get this in https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/548. My personally, I am not really into this.
Check out the browser timeline – Mac IE 5.0 was the last version released in March 2000. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_timeline
Surfing porn website on IE7 is the reason to keep my Firefox clean and innocent.
My favorite Mac-based Web Browser is Fox 2.0x. It is a the most powerful tool for my Web development I have ever used. I have main reasons to choose the one as follows:
Firefox is Open Source as always free and always under improvement.
Firefox is designed to be usable, first and foremost.
Firefox has a neat and simple feature set that can be extended.
Firefox is less annoying and more secure than IE.
For intensive users of the Web, like me, Firefox provides the best support for the creation of Web pages.
As former primary IE user, I had to convince myself that each of these points was solid before I switched to Firefox without a question. Safari is very good as well as it is my 2nd favorite browser for Mac.
Happy Firefox!
Robert the Runner
I using vary browsers for many reason. Of course I prefer firefox over everything.
I use Firefox with google toolbars.
I would be able to use GCal, Bookmarks, Gmail and Autofill at home and work with two different computers.
Nothing saved on the computer files.
Less clutter for me.
I use one and only web browser. That is Safari. Just because if developers see that there are million people who use Safari, developers would invest their time and money to develop something instantly great for Safari. Safari is evidently growing but slowly.
I rarely use Firefox and Netscape when Safari is not supported by some websites.
Cool.
Safari
Firefox
Camino
OmniWeb
Opera
iCab
Shiira
Flock
Netscape
Chesire http://greenhouse.aol.com/prod.jsp?prod_id=53
AOL for X
see more long list of browser
http://www.macorchard.com/www/
Yeah.. its so many browsers for MacOS X argh..
I now use Safari. I used firefox on my home intel imac but it was little slow. Safari’s quicker.
However, at work, I used Firefox massively on my old g5 machine, until I got the 2.66 ghz dual xeon. Unfortunately, Firefox likes to mess with the RAM, and cause black screen of death. Don’t ask me why or how. I even got black screen of death using parallels using firefox IN WINDOWS! So now I avoid Firefox unless I absolutely have to for web testing purposes.
Firefox works for me.
Sorry, comments are closed.
1:42 pm
The list is missing my favorite browser, Internet Explorer 5.2! Yeah, really! ;)
My favorite is Mozilla Firefox 2, hands down, for these reasons, in order of importance:
1) Keyworded bookmarks
2) Restore session
3) Spell checker in forms
4) Movable tabs
Safari does NOT have any of these features. Additionally, I’m not a fan of Safari’s brushed metal look.
However, I will definitely check out Safari 3. I’m absolutely positive the brushed metal theme will be completely replaced in Leopard, including Safari 3.
I know for a fact Safari 3 will have movable tabs. Tabs even can be moved onto OTHER browser windows, something Firefox 2 cannot do.
Another thing, and this is something Firefox will NEVER be able to do: searching pages in Safari will be powered by Spotlight.
So ask me again in October!