Browsers Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

CNN: Our iPhone app is "not a hobby"

by Mike Schramm (Sep 29th, 2009)

CNN chatted with our good friends at DLS about the news network's iPhone app (scheduled to hit an App Store near you very soon), and it actually sounds pretty premium: in-app video, breaking news live video streaming, a Coverflow-style way to browse news information, the ability to store news to ...

Choosy helps those with Browser Commitment Phobia

by TJ Luoma (Jul 14th, 2009)

Are you the type of person who just can't settle down? Do you find your needs just can't be met by any one of the multiple options available to you? Can you even remember how many different browsers you've been with? If that sounds like you, you should be glad to hear that Choosy has left beta. ...

Net Applications numbers show growth for Mac browsers

by Michael Rose (Jun 2nd, 2009)

If you're looking for a bright spot in the Mac market share numbers after the recent dips, Net Applications has your back. The May survey indicates an uptick in Safari's share of browser usage -- up to 8.43 in April, and 2% higher than a year earlier. Firefox continues to be the big 2nd banana to ...

Google Chrome for Mac: Don't hold your breath

by Dave Caolo (Feb 13th, 2009)

Gather around, Apple fans. I have good news and bad news for you. The good news is that there is a preliminary version of Google Chrome up and running. Sort of. Google's Mike Pinkerton has posted a couple of screenshots of Chrome for Mac on his blog, including the very first time he used it to load ...

Chrome features are coming to WebKit

by Christina Warren (Sep 8th, 2008)

Although Google's Chrome browser is currently only available to Windows users (unless you are running an Intel-based Mac and VMWare Fusion or Parallels), its WebKit underpinnings mean that Safari, and other WebKit-based browsers, can benefit from Google's code. One of the larger innovations of ...

Camino 1.6

by Scott McNulty (Apr 18th, 2008)

The best browser for the Mac, Camino, has gotten even better with the release of Camino 1.6. I know what some of you are thinking, 'How can you say that Camino is the best browser for the Mac? It doesn't support extensions, it isn't made by Apple, and it won't buy me a pony!' All of those things are ...

Safari 3.0.2 beta released

by David Chartier (Jun 22nd, 2007)

The Surfin' Safari blog dedicated to the open source WebKit project (which powers Safari on Mac OS X, Windows and even the iPhone) has announced the availability of Safari 3.0.2 beta. This isn't a major release by any means, but it does contain a healthy list of squashed bugs, as well as fixes for ...

TabExpos�: Safari gets Expos� for its tabs

by David Chartier (Jun 18th, 2007)

Move over Shiira, cuz there's another browser in town that can bring the power of Exposé to its tabs. Cocoamug Software's TabExposé enables Safari (even the new v3 beta) with a configurable shortcut key to display the current window's tabs in an Exposé-style layout. To be ...

TUAW Podcast #22: 1Passwd

by David Chartier (Mar 15th, 2007)

This week's podcast covers 1Passwd, the password manager and autofill tool that brings some really unique features and multi-browser support for the Keychain to the table. For just under 8 minutes I demonstrate some of the killer features of this app that go above and beyond the norm, and the ...

Is Safari a system resource hog?

by David Chartier (Feb 27th, 2007)

A browser doesn't seem like it should have that adverse of an effect on one's system performance. Aside from the power users who surf for hours at a time and leave their browser running for days on end, one's browser shouldn't be dragging the rest of the class down. Macenstein, on the other hand, ...

Safari's market share rises to 4.03 percent

by David Chartier (Dec 3rd, 2006)

In a post cleverly titled The same thing we do every night, Pinky (an Animaniacs/Pinky and the Brain reference), the WebKit blog Surfing Safari links a Switch to a Mac article which notes that Safari's market share has risen once again. Continuing its upward stride from October's 3.53 percent, ...

Safari better than Firefox

by Scott McNulty (Nov 27th, 2006)

People are very serious about what browser they use, and I understand why. I spend most of my computing life using one browser or another (my current fave is the Intel optimized FireFox variant). Now, I'm just an average Joe, so you can take my thoughts on browsers with a grain of salt, but Zeldman ...

An Adium Xtra for linking any browser's current page

by David Chartier (Sep 30th, 2006)

I know Adium can insert links from some browsers by itself, but I just found a script at the Adium Xtras site which offers much more fine-grained control over inserting a link from any browser, with the page name's descriptive title linked nice and clean, instead of the long ugly URL you get from ...

HistoryHound - full text search of browser histories, NetNewsWire, more

by David Chartier (Aug 11th, 2006)

HistoryHound is a handy search utility for anyone who does a lot of surfing and RSS reading between multiple apps. It offers a full text search of most of the major Mac OS X browsers including Mozilla's, OmniWeb and even Opera, as well as two of the more popular RSS readers: Pulp Fiction and ...

Firefox commercial pokes fun at the competition

by David Chartier (Jun 17th, 2006)

A viral Firefox commercial poking fun at its browser competition features the anthropomorphized icons of Internet Explorer, Netscape and Apple's own Safari acting, well - somewhat silly. No matter which browser you're a fan of, it's a pretty funny spot and one of the better offerings I've seen ...