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Jul 17, 2006View in Crawl 4
>so, here's the deal ;) Safari looks nice (cocoa interface),>but at the end of the day, people are just going to use>Firefoxi always wonder who says things like this. everybody has firefox because of the extensions. they are awesome and powerful... and kick ass. but firefox on a mac just feels clunky. it feels like a windows application. its just irritating to use day in and day out. so really i dont know any mac users that have abandoned safari or the others that use webkit. shiira is a great browser. feels and acts like safari with features no other browser has. safari isn't threaten at all. i couldn't use firefox as my only browser.and in the same general thought... i got irritated at mail.app because it can be a CPU hog. so i decided i'd switch to thunderbird. i spent a month working with it trying to get it to feel comfortable. i use the interface extensions and got it looking like mail.app and finally i gave up. mail.app just works better. does what you want. feels like a mac app. so made myself an imap account sent all my mail to it... and brought back mail.app. i can't tell you what relief is was. its just works. and the latest incarnation doesn't seem to be as big a CPU hog.anywy.
I've been in Mac land for a little bit and here's my experiences - Safari was what I started wiith, but after a bit I started to miss the Firefox features. :( So I switched.I used Firefox on Mac for a little bit. But I missed the RSS stuff. And, with all my extensions, it ran like crap. Then I realized more and more that I didn't really need most of these extensions any more. They were duplicated with Dashboard widgets. So then I started with Camino, and I haven't looked back. I still use Firefox, but only for development purposes (web developer toolbar, javascript debugging). The RSS stuff from Safari has been replaced by another reader (Feed). I also use Safari sometimes if something doesn't seem to work in Camino. But Camino is my first choice.
For sure. On Windows, Firefox is the absolute best, but in OS X, I can't use anything but safari for most things. One thing that does erk me about Safari is the way it handles Flash. If a flash movie is playing, and you focus on a different window to the one with the FLash, the movie frame rate reduces to about 2-3 fps. Not sure why.
Firefox has one feature absent from Safari: Its bookmarks bar has a "slide-over" feature, similar to the main Mac Menu Bar: if you click on one menu item and the drop-down menu appears and you change your mind and slide the mouse over to another menu item, the first zips back up, and the new menu item now effects a new drop-down menu. This doesn't happen with a "Toolbar," I have been told, but only with a Menu Bar. So Safari should emulate Firefox in this respect. In fact, that's why I preferentially use Firefox . . .
What are you talking about Camino doesn't work with GMail? I use it all day every day with three GMail accounts. Works just fine.... In fact, I use it mainly for GMail because Safari doesn't work as well with GMail.
prockcoreJul 17, 2006
Saft also costs $12. I'll stick with firefox (Flock actually) thank you. Spending money on extensions is insane.
starmanjonesJul 17, 2006
>so, here's the deal ;) Safari looks nice (cocoa interface),>but at the end of the day, people are just going to use>Firefoxi always wonder who says things like this. everybody has firefox because of the extensions. they are awesome and powerful... and kick ass. but firefox on a mac just feels clunky. it feels like a windows application. its just irritating to use day in and day out. so really i dont know any mac users that have abandoned safari or the others that use webkit. shiira is a great browser. feels and acts like safari with features no other browser has. safari isn't threaten at all. i couldn't use firefox as my only browser.and in the same general thought... i got irritated at mail.app because it can be a CPU hog. so i decided i'd switch to thunderbird. i spent a month working with it trying to get it to feel comfortable. i use the interface extensions and got it looking like mail.app and finally i gave up. mail.app just works better. does what you want. feels like a mac app. so made myself an imap account sent all my mail to it... and brought back mail.app. i can't tell you what relief is was. its just works. and the latest incarnation doesn't seem to be as big a CPU hog.anywy.
bpapaJul 18, 2006
I've been in Mac land for a little bit and here's my experiences - Safari was what I started wiith, but after a bit I started to miss the Firefox features. :( So I switched.I used Firefox on Mac for a little bit. But I missed the RSS stuff. And, with all my extensions, it ran like crap. Then I realized more and more that I didn't really need most of these extensions any more. They were duplicated with Dashboard widgets. So then I started with Camino, and I haven't looked back. I still use Firefox, but only for development purposes (web developer toolbar, javascript debugging). The RSS stuff from Safari has been replaced by another reader (Feed). I also use Safari sometimes if something doesn't seem to work in Camino. But Camino is my first choice.
imyayoJul 18, 2006
The things I don't like about Safari are the aqua buttons. I also prefer the way firefox handles RSS feeds in the bookmarks toolbar.
thankthecheeseJul 18, 2006
For sure. On Windows, Firefox is the absolute best, but in OS X, I can't use anything but safari for most things. One thing that does erk me about Safari is the way it handles Flash. If a flash movie is playing, and you focus on a different window to the one with the FLash, the movie frame rate reduces to about 2-3 fps. Not sure why.
feldzmoJul 18, 2006
Firefox has one feature absent from Safari: Its bookmarks bar has a "slide-over" feature, similar to the main Mac Menu Bar: if you click on one menu item and the drop-down menu appears and you change your mind and slide the mouse over to another menu item, the first zips back up, and the new menu item now effects a new drop-down menu. This doesn't happen with a "Toolbar," I have been told, but only with a Menu Bar. So Safari should emulate Firefox in this respect. In fact, that's why I preferentially use Firefox . . .
valkraiderJul 19, 2006
What are you talking about Camino doesn't work with GMail? I use it all day every day with three GMail accounts. Works just fine.... In fact, I use it mainly for GMail because Safari doesn't work as well with GMail.
jabbarJul 20, 2006
@kolywateropera has skins. i suggest looking into them