edmonton Posted October 16, 2004 Share Posted October 16, 2004 Which is better, and why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KTamas Posted October 16, 2004 Share Posted October 16, 2004 Firefox, cause of gecko. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smm5786 Posted October 16, 2004 Share Posted October 16, 2004 Firefox, cause of gecko. 584745517[/snapback] yes gecko does a much better job rendering pages than KHTML (or webcore as apple likes to call it) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thekore Posted October 16, 2004 Share Posted October 16, 2004 Firefox seems to run slower for me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krmathis Posted October 16, 2004 Share Posted October 16, 2004 I prefer Mozilla Firefox, because imo its a more complete browser than Safari. Pros: * Standard compliant. * Runs fast and stable. * Extensions support. * Lots of great features. * Frequently updated. * Great community. But it also have some cons: * Using XML (No native menus and widgets). :( * Development is dropping behind the Windows and GNU/Linux versions (more bugs etc...). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KitCh Posted October 16, 2004 Share Posted October 16, 2004 Firefox, as it is just plain easy to use and user friendly! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Righty Posted October 16, 2004 Share Posted October 16, 2004 i use firefox on windows but for mac i would have to say that safari is better. firefox seems slugish and seems to have more bugs and dosnt quite fit in with os x. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac15 Posted October 16, 2004 Share Posted October 16, 2004 I prefer Mozilla Firefox, because imo its a more complete browser than Safari.Pros: * Standard compliant. * Runs fast and stable. * Extensions support. * Lots of great features. * Frequently updated. * Great community. But it also have some cons: * Using XML (No native menus and widgets). :( * Development is dropping behind the Windows and GNU/Linux versions (more bugs etc...). 584745758[/snapback] - Safari's Rendering Engine is Standards Compliant, it's based off KHTML and Apple's Team (David Hyatt) is doing wonder's with it. - Safari Runs Fast and Stable too. - Extentions is something safari is lacking, but there a hand full of great third party plugins that make Safari even better. - Safari is too feature packed - Safari see's an update close to everything 4-6 weeks, if not a security update it's a major rendering engine update in Apple's small System updates. - Well you now how Safari's a community is, were mac heads :) But Firefox for Mac OS X is lacking, XUL means no native widgets, but there is always Camino which works so much better than firefox and is picking up in development rapidly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spacedog Posted October 16, 2004 Share Posted October 16, 2004 I was just wondering why nobody brought up Camino, that's a native - and great - OS X version of Mozilla... thanks, Mac15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firebud Posted October 16, 2004 Share Posted October 16, 2004 I like Firefox for Mac just because of "Copy Image Location". I mean, come on Apple, add it in! :pinch: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliott Posted October 16, 2004 Share Posted October 16, 2004 yes gecko does a much better job rendering pages than KHTML (or webcore as apple likes to call it) 584745525[/snapback] I wouldn't say that at all. Dave Hyatt has really improved KHTML and, in my opinion, made it more standards compliant than Gecko. That definitely shows in Safari's CSS compliancy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickedkitten Veteran Posted October 16, 2004 Veteran Share Posted October 16, 2004 I like Firefox for Mac just because of "Copy Image Location".I mean, come on Apple, add it in! :pinch: 584748615[/snapback] High Five, that is the one thing that stops me from using Safari. You don't realise how important that it is until you need to use it a lot. And to make firefox more "mac osx like" check out Hicksdesign, I think I remember reading somewhere that they will be making the mac version more "mac'y" soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted October 17, 2004 Share Posted October 17, 2004 FireFox just feels like a Windows app on Mac OS. Horrible IMO. Unless things changed recently? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oik Posted October 17, 2004 Share Posted October 17, 2004 i prefer safari. there's no reason to change, so i don't use firefox. same goes for omniweb and camino and the rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oik Posted October 17, 2004 Share Posted October 17, 2004 I like Firefox for Mac just because of "Copy Image Location".I mean, come on Apple, add it in! :pinch: 584748615[/snapback] is it really so hard to open the image in a new tab and copy the address? :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MovieFanatic07 Posted October 17, 2004 Share Posted October 17, 2004 Firefox, its very easy for anyone to use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JorgeIvan Posted October 17, 2004 Share Posted October 17, 2004 Firefox :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzy_logic Posted October 17, 2004 Share Posted October 17, 2004 I use Firefox because Safari doesn't render some page right for me. But Firefox is such a memory hog. (It's using 101.4MB read memory and 458.72MB virtual memory now). :no: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firebud Posted October 17, 2004 Share Posted October 17, 2004 is it really so hard to open the image in a new tab and copy the address? :huh: 584750865[/snapback] Well, not really, I'm just lazy. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac15 Posted October 17, 2004 Share Posted October 17, 2004 Really? 100mb normal memory is nuts but nearly 500mb virtual memory? That's not good at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmove Posted October 17, 2004 Share Posted October 17, 2004 Safari, is simple and more quicker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Posted October 17, 2004 Share Posted October 17, 2004 I wouldn't say that at all. Dave Hyatt has really improved KHTML and, in my opinion, made it more standards compliant than Gecko. That definitely shows in Safari's CSS compliancy. 584748637[/snapback] Hah! He's improved it, but Safari still doesn't hold a candle to Firefox as far as being complient. Gecko is ages ahead of khtml is it really so hard to open the image in a new tab and copy the address? :huh: 584750888[/snapback] Well if you'd actually try it the other way, you'd realize it's quite a bit faster. Once you start downloading quite a few images, there's no contest. Seriously...Safari isn't even close in the browser race anymore. Apple crammed as much in there as they could, so now it's a bloated piece of a browser. WELL behind firefox and Omniweb. And seriously...why even bother with Camino? Who cares if it uses the native OS X gui and Firefox doesn't? Since when does your browser looking good come before functionality? :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliott Posted October 17, 2004 Share Posted October 17, 2004 Okay, so you say Safari is bloated, and then you say you want more functionality. I really don't get you Chad, I really don't. Safari is light, fast and really much better than Firefox on OS X. Firefox on Windows is nice. It's the best Windows has, but in the Mac scene, we have better. I'm sorry, but "Copy Image Location" doesn't make Firefox better than Safari. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XP_01 Posted October 17, 2004 Share Posted October 17, 2004 Safari Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oik Posted October 17, 2004 Share Posted October 17, 2004 Okay, so you say Safari is bloated, and then you say you want more functionality. I really don't get you Chad, I really don't. Safari is light, fast and really much better than Firefox on OS X. Firefox on Windows is nice. It's the best Windows has, but in the Mac scene, we have better. I'm sorry, but "Copy Image Location" doesn't make Firefox better than Safari. 584753269[/snapback] i think the only person that understands chad is... chad. chad: it's interesting you say apple has crammed "everything" into safari, and that it's behind omniweb and firefox, compared to all the features i'd call "bloat" in omniweb and firefox. and no, as a keyboard junkie (one finger on the cmd key, four fingers hovering the keyboard, one hand on the mouse), it would save me perhaps a half a second to choose "Copy Image Location" over "open in new window" > cmd-l > cmd-c > cmd-w. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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