What browser do you run on your Mac?


  

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  1. 1. Which browser do you use?

    • Safari 4
      102
    • Firefox 3.0
      24
    • Firefox 3.5
      74
    • Flock
      1
    • Camino
      1
    • Camino 2
      0
    • Other
      8
    • 0


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When you scroll a big page, it seems to stutter as it goes down... then when you scroll back up again (and down) it's quite smooth!

The page you're scrolling wouldn't happen to have animated gifs / flash on them would it?

Try disabling plug-ins in preferences and then reload the page, then re-scroll it - does it still lag?

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Safari 4.0.1 crash almost in any website with flash and JavaScript. They seriously need to fix it. I am currently using only Firefox 3.5 RC2, because safari 4 is unstable.

can reproduce these crashes whenever you want? i have never had Safari 4.0.1 crash once, i use youtube, stupidvideos.com and newgrounds all the time very heavy flash

The page you're scrolling wouldn't happen to have animated gifs / flash on them would it?

Try disabling plug-ins in preferences and then reload the page, then re-scroll it - does it still lag?

Or you could enable Quartz 2D extreme if it is not already and disable hardware Acceleration in flash settings

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use to use only Firefox, switched to Safari 4 during the beta, only use firefox for the Gmail plugin to check my accounts ocasionally

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I use Firefox 3.5 as my default. I would use Safari 4 if it used much less RAM.

It does, this is Safari 4.01 Vs. FireFox 3.5 RC2 both browsers have only one single window open with NO other tabs and they are both viewing Page 4 of this very TOPIC.

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can reproduce these crashes whenever you want? i have never had Safari 4.0.1 crash once, i use youtube, stupidvideos.com and newgrounds all the time very heavy flash

Apple already reported that some flash and js heavy sites can crash if the accessibility option is turned on, this is quite rare since some specific software must be also running, however the fault is on safari's side.

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I use Firefox 3.5 as my default. I would use Safari 4 if it used much less RAM.

This stuff is starting to get tiresome. I'll echo a quote from Reo...

Honestly I don't get what people have against high memory usage. Safari uses all the memory it can get on my Mac, once I start launching other applications that need it Mac OS X will automatically reallocate the memory away from the browser. What's the point of having - let's say - 4 GB of RAM when 75% of it sits idle most of the time?
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Because Apple is interested in advancing the web not setting it backwards.

It has nothing to do with Apple, if Microsoft really wanted they could have kept IE for mac

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Shouldn't have separated the Firefox versions. The poll would be closer. Where's my Safari 3.0 crowd!

Safari 4 all the way, pretty and polished like their hardware!

I know some of you might not like this but Firefox looks like the little kid putting on their mother's clothes and makeup. It wants to look like Safari but just not quite. ;)

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Microsoft pretty much killed off IE for Mac a long time before Apple made Safari, so it was part "MS not caring" and part "MS has competition for a product they don't care about"

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I used Safari primarily when I owned a Mac (I don't anymore, though). I found that the interface for Firefox, while it had a lot of the "Mac OS X" look to it, didn't blend in as well as Safari.

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Because Apple is interested in advancing the web not setting it backwards.

Apple didn't kill IE for Mac, Microsoft discontinued support for it in June of '03. Safari's initial beta release was in January of that year.

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I have to use Firefox, because Safari takes a while to load for some reason.

I absolutely hate the way Firefox looks, but it's the one because of the application speed.

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Just tried Firefox 3.5 again and it's coming along really nice. Btw, is it just me or did they change the scrolling? It's much smoother, safari-like. Also, the smooth-scrolling setting doesn't seem to have an effect anymore.

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  • 1 month later...

What is your browser of choice on the Mac? I am not trying to start any flame wars or anything like that. I am just curious on what other Mac users use and why.

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