Firefox vs. Safari

I find Safari better for most sites, but FireFox works better on some for sure.

Make sure you have Block Pop-Up Windows selected when using Safari, it helps cut down on some issues.

Another good tool with Safari is to activate the Debug menu, where you can select different user agents. Here's a posting with more info:

http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?postMessage_@@.68b84621

Hank,

Not to be rude, but you're basing how "good" a web browser is on which one can access MSN Hotmail (one site) better? Not to mention that the only reason why hotmail is not very cross-platform friendly is because it doesn't conform to web standards since it's made by Microsoft.

What ever happened to looking at the actual features of the browser? In my opinion, Safari is a much better browser than Firefox because of the way it's able to integrate with Mac OS X. Mozilla seems as though they are trying to "do their own thing" with this.

Safari is able to take advantage of Address Book entries so you can visit contacts' home pages easily from the bookmarks menu, you can access Bonjour bookmarks, there's RSS support, private browsing, and full Aqua interface. You can't do any of this with Firefox.

Many people make the case of Firefox versus Safari or vice versa these days. I'm surprised no one ever mentions Omniweb. Now with that browser, you can make a pretty good argument.

Omniweb has almost every single Safari feature but it also has more. This thing sports tabbed browsing using thumbnails, multiple search engine support in the toolbar, full ad-blocking (not just pop-up blocking), individual web page settings, workspaces and autosave. It's also pretty dang fast too.

If anyone has an edge on Safari it's most definitely Omniweb. The only argument I can see for Firefox is that it's faster. This is subjective, and everyone's mileage varies. I for one, feel that Safari's faster.

What do you guys think?

Brian

Good for you, Hank, but you'll notice the good and bad is pretty subjective for different people.

I love Safari v2.00. v2.01 seemed to cure the issue with a Java/Applet HTML WYSIWYG editor which I used.

And the way you can simply email a bunch of contents of a page through Apple Mail pretty much blows everything else off (of course it might not show up the way it should in other mail clients, but I don't care).

Speed-wise - it's so much faster than Firefox.

I like safari better just like brain said cause it intergrates with the system, safari is sometimes a little faster but not by much, but im not really going to get too much into it but my vote is Safari

PS and its made by Apple

Got to agree with the 1st point - basing a decision on 1 site is not enough for me.

I used Safari for a while, then found it wasn't supported by my Internet bank. So I tried Firefox. It was okay, but for many reasons (integration with the rest of OSX, speed, look & feel, ongoing Apple investment/enhancement, support, etc.) I went back to Safari! AND closed that Internet back account!

Radical, but it shows that just 1 site isn't a good enough reason to give up on a browser...

As for Omi's product. Hmm, maybe, but why spend more cash when Safari does the trick? It would have to WAY better for me to that...

Oops, missed the most important point.

I was when I found a site that Safari supported but Firefox didn't that I decided to switch back (and give up on that Internet bank).

That's a "score draw".

I guess the moral to this story is probably a bit of a cliché - "each to their own"!

Hank,
I agree with everything you've said. I've had nothing but frustrations since the Safari update recently. Regarding "speed" for Safari, people have been talking about "Speed Safari" that boosts the speed up for Safari. But the problems that I'm facing with Safari are persisting inspite of all the great advice I'm getting. I'm just waiting for Apple to fix the problem so that I can stop losing sleep at night (an exaggeration of course!), and get on with life. I am using Firefox for the present time, but when the problem get's fixed, I'm switching back to Safari. By the way, I showed my frustration in an earlier post I made a couple of days ago, and received a nice friendly e-mail from my friends at Apple reminding me to review the policy of posting online. They removed what I had posted also. Just thought I would pass that on to you for what it was worth. My advice? Stick with Firefox until the gang at Apple fixes the problems, then switch back to Safari. You'll be much happier. Would you all agree? Good luck!

I concur with you Robert T. I am very upset with Safari since the new update. I am downloading Firefox for the piece of mind.