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Firefox on OS X: Part IV

Which browser is on your dock?

  • Safari

  • Chrome

  • Firefox

  • Other

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speg

speg

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6 years ago I got my first Mac. Being the geeky PC user I was, one of the first things I did was install Firefox. However, I was not enough of a nerd to be blinded by 'open source' and other things engineers take comfort in. I refused to turn a blind eye to the awful, terrible, poor disaster that it was.

Version 3 came a couple years later and wasn't much better really.

Version 4 is now near release, and I have been testing it out here and there. Then something weird started to happen. I was actually enjoying it! 😱

The browser is one of our most important applications, I know it is mine. So we are right to be picky about them. Personally, I have been switching back and forth between Chrome and Safari every six months or so it seems. Now it looks like there's a new contender! Honestly, they're all good and offer most of the same features so I find it comes down to intangible things... Firefox 'feels' different somehow... I like it 🙂

So which browser gets to sit on your dock?
 
Safari for life!

I was the exact same way actually, I installed Firefox immediately, and then about 6 months later realized that I hated how it didn't integrate right with the OS, and went to Safari. I just want Inquisitor for Safari back, then I will be well and truly content.
 
I have to use a Java based remote connection for work a few days a week and the Java plugin for Firefox is unfortunately very unstable right now for me, locks it up every few hours. I've since gone back to Safari. I like where they are going with it, but without stability, i'm out for now.
 
I use Safari on my personal machines. Unfortunately, I have to use Firefox for work because I can't get the Citrix plugin to work with Safari.
 
used to use safari, but felt limited after not having extensions and using all sorts of "addons" (glimmer blocker, adblock, etc), so i switched to camino. camino didnt look right on osx so i went back to safari. hated that still so i finally went to firefox, but i hated how it looked in osx. i also tried chrome to see how it was, and its pretty good, minus the tabs on the top - i just cant stand them. even though safari finally has support for extensions, i still prefer firefox.

http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/949/screenshot20110319at102.png - i found a theme called grapple yummy, and it looks pretty close to safari. fission is an extension i use to simulate the blue loading/progress bar built into the address bar.
 
I'm on a mix of Chrome/Firefox. I love how good Safari looks, but the lack of updates to the Developer Tools was just too much to bear. I would use Firefox 4 full time, but the addons that I use for development are causing memory leaks (which I don't experience in Chrome).
 
Chrome. Since I use Linux, OSX and Windows, the cross-platform aspect is critical. In reality, for my usage, the OS and UI has become irrelevant, Chrome has become my interface on all my computers.
 
Update: Well that was short lived. Safari is back on the dock!

No H264 support and excessive memory usage sent Firefox back to the bench.
 
alfa147x said:
Live bookmarks?
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Live bookmarks are bookmarks on your book mark bar that are constantly updated with RSS feed headers. Rather than going through an RSS reader you can see the headlines for each website and select which pages to open.

It is my favorite way of keeping up with the news over an RSS reader.
 
In this day and age, do we actually have legit bookmark synching, without needing Dropmarks or Box.net or whizbangbookmarks.org or whatever? Is that to hard to do?
 
As does Firefox with Firefox sync. Correct me if i'm wrong but i think it syncs all of your bookmarks AND your history, passwords, saved forms, etc
 
problem i have is firefox wants to run 64bit and the flash 64bit isn't so stable. how do you force 32bit firefox install? chrome wins in this respect with integrated flash.
 
Emulex said:
problem i have is firefox wants to run 64bit and the flash 64bit isn't so stable. how do you force 32bit firefox install? chrome wins in this respect with integrated flash.
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Right click > Get Info ... Check "Open in 32-bit mode"
 
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