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- roosterjm2k2, on 10/11/2007, -17/+125Wheres the plugin that only allows me to resize my window from the bottom-right. Being allowed to do it from the other 3 corners and 4 sides is far too confusing.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -19/+78@sleze: "How to get the best features? Just use Opera."
Or.. stay with firefox and follow the guide... - Gigabyte, on 10/11/2007, -2/+57I'm reading this to find out what safari's best features are!
- bpapa, on 10/11/2007, -2/+42Those silly developers and their planning.
- preshit, on 10/11/2007, -9/+44Exactly why I love FireFox. Its so scalable. Just customize how YOU want it to be. Not how the developer PLANNED it to be.
- SirG3, on 10/11/2007, -7/+41It's still missing Safari's best feature - the WebKit. http://webkit.org
- dpknc84, on 10/11/2007, -6/+32And this is what is so great about Firefox. It is so scalable with plugins that you can truly make it unique for your own needs. The competition comes out with some great "thing" and all someone who uses Firefox has to do is develop/install a plugin to mimic that.
- dreesemonkey, on 10/11/2007, -2/+22You had me a 'porn mode'
- SpookyET, on 10/11/2007, -3/+21Yeah, is there an extension to make the Firefox GUI and Gecko as fast as WebKit? :-) That's the best missing feature.
- m00nmaster, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17Dear tagor: Here's why Macs look "blurry".
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/06/12.html?hi=joel - Chakat, on 10/11/2007, -5/+18It's called firefox 3. It's in beta right now, but then again, so is safari on windows.
- halik, on 10/11/2007, -7/+18I don't care about the acid test, how about a decent ad blocker in safari?
- SwabTheDeck, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12There's really only two: Speed and Porn-mode (also known as Private Browsing). Although, if you're using it on a Mac, you also have the advantage of it not being a buggy, crashing bitch vs. Firefox on Mac.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -9/+19we have way too many apple fanboys on digg, getting ridiculous
- chrisgeleven, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6cmd and then the # key (CMD-1 for tab 1, CMD-2 for tab 2, etc.)
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -9/+14@Tagor:
Because some diggers may have percieved you as "boasting" about your high res monitor. Remember, many diggers probably got picked on in school by people who were "better" (supposedly) than they were... I'm sure someone on Digg will be kind enough to answer your question though (cough) - MavRevMatt, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4This is great for someone like me wanting Safari on Linux. Opera doesn't perform too well on Linux, at least for me, so this is great.
- Jammerdelray, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Still missing is Web Standards - Still Fails Acid 2 test which Safari passes.
- DeaPeaJay, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4You can push and hold the back button in Safari and get a history the same as in other browsers.
- geniusj, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5Is there an extension for being able to drag tabs out of windows and back in again? I didn't see it mentioned in the article nor in the comments.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3wow, I was dugg down for giving him exactly what he wanted to know.
- hiPpymIck, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3there are a lot of Themes you can get to change Fx appearance
- waylandchin, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3here are your safari plugins
www.pimpmysafari.com - themastersb, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3I just got Stelther the other day.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4option+command+direction.
- Radan, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4Yeah, exactly. The main reason that I use Safari (Though I'm obviously using it on a Mac) is Webkit, and because it's actually a normal Cocoa application, which therefor works with all my system wide add ons. Other than that, Safari doesn't have any real useful features that I can think of right now. However, I think it's very unfair that most people compares a clean version of Safari with a Firefox pumped with add ons. There are plenty of downloads for Safari too, maybe not as many as the ones for Firefox, but still alot, like for example Saft (the swizz army knife: ad blocker, fullscreen, saved sessions e.t.c) and Inquisitor (giving the google search bar a Spotligh-ish behavior).
http://www.pimpmysafari.com got the most of them.
(BTW, is it just me or is Digg really slow today?) - Tyr7BE, on 10/11/2007, -5/+7I've found the opposite. I've been wanting to switch to Safari on my mac because, well FF for OS X sucks. But FF's features that are so horribly lacking in safari have prevented me from doing so. Extensions are a big one (adblock most of all...if I could get adblock with filterset g updates I'd settle for that), so is the sweet implementation of find as you type (copied in safari 3 from what I can see, so that's a start).
- jeriqo, on 10/11/2007, -6/+8Well, I'm currently using an ad blocker plug-in on Safari (PithHelmet),
plus a search field plug-in that shows me results in real-time like spotlight (Inquisitor),
plus a plug in that adds shortcuts to the address bar (ex: typing "wiki dog" redirects me to the "dog" results on wikipedia) (sogudi) - hiPpymIck, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4the latest TabMixPlus has tab scrolling -hover over a tab and just scroll
- jeriqo, on 10/11/2007, -3/+5Just use PithHelmet for Safari.
Doesn't require any configuration, just works.
Havn't seen an ad in years. - MonkCanatella, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2One thing Opera has above all of these if the way their tabs are handled. In opera, each tab is like an individual window inside one bigger window, and you can resize them, etc... They also have buttons to cascade all your tabs, or view them side by side, which is a great feature that i'd love to see in firefox.
- phazon88, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1This fails to explain how I can get Safari's best feature in Firefox. Safari's faster speed.
- Bob042, on 10/11/2007, -3/+4This was on the front page recently, and should explain that.
http://digg.com/apple/Why_Apple_fonts_appear_blurry/ - dirtyhand, on 10/11/2007, -5/+6installed windows version... why the hell does the font look so blurry compared to firefox? cant stand it
- InvisibleMan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I just tried out Safari, the first thing I look at is how well pages are rendered, and Safari did just as well as Firefox so its a tie there.
The tab browsing experience was the same but you add Tab Mix Plus extension to Firefox and it blow Safari, and every other browser, out of the water.
Safari didn't seem to work any faster than Firefox, so again a tie.
But finally, I think seeing ads where adblock took care of them on Firefox was the final judgment.
So in review: Firefox's extensions, mainly Tab Mix Plus and Adblock, push Firefox above and beyond all competitors on the market, regardless of which OS platform the software runs on. - tagor, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Is Ctrl+Shift+T what you're thinking of?
- DeaPeaJay, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2I like firefox a lot, I want to see it's market share continue to rise, but Safari beats it on interface. It has neutral buttons instead of colorful ones (Good to keep the attention on the site design rather than the browser).
It has aqua form controls. Firefox has square, ugly controls, with an almost invisible edge.
It has subtle interface animations (like the tab dragging) that give good feedback to the user.
Firefox just doesn't cut it for me. It's good for plugins, but that's really the only appealing aspect of it for me - the only reason I use it occasionally. - jedinate, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2I love to try new browsers. I'm downloading Safari as we speak (type?)
I use Firefox about 90% of the time and IE7 for those times when even the IE tab extension in FF can't get it right (mostly intranet pages at work). I've tried Opera and just didn't find it intuitive enough. Tried Flock (mainly for the integration of Flickr ), but found it lacking in other features and extensions; plus there are extensions that give FF the Flickr integration.
I just tried the new Netscape Navigator and ummmm, what is the point of still making this browser? I've got a version of Mozilla 1.7.13 I still use occasionally mainly for the cool skins (Mozilla IMO has always had the best skins out of any browser) shallow I know...
K-Meleon is another one I tried that I didn't see the point of. Perhaps it's better now (I tried it well over a year and a half ago), but at the time it seemed like a FF clone that didn't bring anything new to the party.
Personally I'm happy to have all these choices and hope that the addition of another browser will continue to spur on innovation in them all.
So now I'm gonna go on a Safari, later my diggas - changyang1230, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Ctrl PageUp / Ctrl Pagedown
- SLH06, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I think its Safari+Mac OS X's stuff(oxford dictionary, summary service, spotlight etc...) that makes it the worlds best browser. But on Windoze use Firefox.
- melat0nin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1@jerigo
FF has the keywords thing you mentioned built in as standard, and it allows you to create your own (perhaps the Safari plugin does too, I don't know). - tagor, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1@m00nmaster
Isn't it clear that I understand why Mac fonts are "blurry" in my post? Both topics were touched: a different font engine and a high resolution monitor. Why exactly does your comment (which is completely redundant) get a positive digg count, yet my feasible question is mindlessly dugg down? The digg user base has switched to a group of pop-culture retards, and since my comment wasn't snappy and I wasn't trying to tell a joke, my comments were dugg down.. Time to find a new way to get news.. - schroeder, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Where's the color profile extention?
- Chakat, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Firefox is getting native control support in version 3. Or, you can just use camino, which was designed to be the "native" browser.
- jeriqo, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2Same answer as comment above.
Wait for PithHelmet to be released for Safari 3. - themastersb, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1So..... any good overlay and search for keywords thing for Firefox? Safari completely owns there.
- hiPpymIck, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2 imnoexpert but every time Fx starts dragging on me i use..
QuickRestart for a toolbar button
TabMixPlus for a session manager
takes a few seconds or so to restart.. to exactly where you were - geekologist, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3@ciproxr
They are drawn here by their love for Apple, and Kevin Rose. - DeaPeaJay, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3With Safari you can drag tabs not just in the same window but between multiple windows. I've found this to be very convenient.
You can also drag the tabs off the bar and they'll make a new window. And then there's the smooth animated sliding of the tabs as you drag them around. In firefox, it's just a small arrow that indicates where the tab will go. - Zenithan, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3By downloading Firefox 3 Alpha 2 or any semi-recent nightly build.
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