Safari better than Firefox

i use camino, but only because that's the hidden planet where jengo and boba fett their children for the clone army.


jabba rulez!

No one's talking about the text rendering mentioned in the post. I do see an improvement with Safari (never bothered to check before).

Any other contact lens wearers have problems looking at onscreen text? I can read printed text fine but somehow everything looks a little fuzzy with onscreen text. If Safari's better, that might make me switch back, despite the fact that I like FF for every other reason mentioned above.

I would never say Firefox feels like it was written in real basic. You didn't give it the proper chance or didn't learn how to make it your own, sjmills. Sure, it's cross-platform, and that's the crux of this debate. Safari has one platform to deal with and it is made by the people who made that platform. Huge advantage.

That said, Firefox makes up for its lack of finesse with add-ons. Themes can make it look very nice on any platform and extensions shape the browser into pretty much whatever you need it to be.

I feel a little boxed in with Safari. I know the Mac way of doing things is to take the user out of having to do anything but use the program, but sometimes the program doesn't work the way I want it to. Yes, I've seen pimpmysafari and all that. It's not enough for daily use.

Like many people said already, though, there is no one browser and loyalty to one browser or another is pretty closed-minded. Use what works for surfing the web - that's really all these things are good for anyway.

i have constant problems editing text in various webmail interfaces on both firefox and camino. never have that problem in safari. if i edit the text, especially backspacing, the text doesn't rewrite the screen properly in firefox or camino but always does in safari.

one of my colleagues has same problem but odd thing is i don't hear other users complain about this serious flaw which makes firefox/camino completely unusable for writing in the browser on OS X.

For Outlook Web Access, which one is the best? I've tried Safari and FF and they both are missing elements. Do I need IE for this? Also applications like Sage CRM, are missing crucial functions in both of these browsers. Can anyone who needs to acces these type of web applications recommend a solution?

I use Windows and Linux at work, and a Mac at home. I find Opera to be easily the fastest and nicest on all of those operating systems. Everything looks great, and having masses of tabs open in Opera is *much* faster than the same in Firefox.

Plus I like the inbuilt handling of feeds.

I've been using firefox since version 0.7 or something.
After recently switching to Mac I cannot say that Safari is bad browser, I kinda like it but there are some things that I really miss in Safari - extensions. Especially Web Developer - without it I cannot see developing websites right now.

Sjmills, I'm talking about drop down menus you see for selecting your state in forms. These require you to click on them instead of using your tab button to go to the field and use the cursor keys to select the desired state like in Windows.

Chuck, what are you talking about? What's wrong with menus? Be more specific - "dropdown menus" is historically a Mac term. "Popup menus" are the menus that pop up when you click on the control within a window (as opposed to menubar menus).

I tried Firefox and instantly didn't like the overall feel, like it was written with Real Basic or something. It just felt hackish and some of the controls were goofy and not at all Mac feeling. I'll stick with Safari thank you very much.