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Safari | 69 | 57.02% | |
Shiira | 12 | 9.92% | |
Camino | 17 | 14.05% | |
OmniWeb | 3 | 2.48% | |
Firefox | 20 | 16.53% | |
Opera | 0 | 0% | |
Internet Explorer | 0 | 0% | |
iCab | 0 | 0% | |
other (please specify) | 0 | 0% | |
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New Member
Join Date: Feb 2006
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which browser do you prefer and why?
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owner for sale by house
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Charlotte, NC
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Uh, what about FireFox?
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*AD SPACE FOR SALE*
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Cleveland-ish, OH
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wasnt there already a poll about this a while back???
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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if there was a thread, please post it, i couldnt find it. -jmazz |
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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so i found the link. i guess this one is different because the old one has camino grouped together with firefox.
http://forums.applenova.com/showthre...browser+choice mainly, i want to know if and why people use camino and shiira over safari (i.e. does one take up more ram than another, etc...) jmazz |
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Cleveland-ish, OH
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There was actually 2 polls already taken.
http://forums.applenova.com/showthre...hlight=browser and http://forums.applenova.com/showthre...hlight=browser |
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rams it
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Seattle
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Internet Explorer.
haha, just kidding... |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Minnesota
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I have to decide on Shiira. Even though I've used Safari almost exclusively until yesterday, I just decided to try Shiira and it's awesome. Basically, it's like Safari but better in almost every way. The rendering engine isn't as lightning-quick as Camino, but the interface is more user-friendly and the ability to use the bookmarks you've already made in Safari helps the transition.
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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OK, I use Camino mainly but I also like Safari and to a lesser extent Firefox for its extensions. I would probably use Safari more than Camino but I have one problem with it that I haven't been able to solve. Someone here has got to know how to solve it. . . . When you open a tab, the browser doesn't open the tab in the background but opens it in the foreground (is that the right word ). I know there is probably an easy answer to this, but I can't figure it out.
I used to use FF mainly, but recently switched over to Camino -- big, big improvement on the UI front, but wish it had more plugins. Someone hacked my signature. I demand an investigation. |
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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Those are really terrible options, leaving out a few big names. So, I'm going to close this thread and merge it with one that has better poll options so people can start over (since there are already several "other" votes).
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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There. That should cover a wider variety of popular browsers.
If you already voted before, be sure to vote again now. |
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reticulating your mom
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Brad, what do you use?
I like Safari, because it's Webkit, and because the scrolling looks 10x better than Firefox/Camino (and other Gecko browsers). |
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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You can see who voted for what. Scroll up and click.
I use Shiira because:
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: lost in space
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I've just tried Shiira, because I was curious, after the Camino-theread switched to a Shiira-thread after a few posts
It looks great, is fast, scrolling with the trackpad has the right speed... I like it. |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: San Francisco, CA
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I currently use Safari on my PowerBook, with Camino as a close second backup. I also use iCab on my PM G3 that's also hooked up to the Internet.
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reticulating your mom
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Whoa, Shiira looks nice!
Downloading now... Edit: Shiira has just replaced Safari as my favorite browser™. Better RSS support is awesome, Webkit rendering looks & scrolls exactly how I like it to, and it's aqua-licious, especially when you change around the icons. You ask me for a hamburger. Last edited by atomicbartbeans : 2006-02-16 at 20:10. |
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Camino, easy. I *love* unified interfaces. Besides that, the Gecko engine is used by a whole lot of people, and hence, has better *overall* support.
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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which one uses the least RAM?
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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I honestly can't remember the last time I used memory requirements as a deciding factor for any application. Maybe I did back in '98 or '99 when I had a paltry 96 megs of RAM. The difference in memory usage between Safari, Camino, etc. today is so relatively insignificant that I just don't even think about it. The quality of this board depends on the quality of the posts. The only way to guarantee thoughtful, informative discussion is to write thoughtful, informative posts. AppleNova is not a real-time chat forum. You have time to compose messages and edit them before and after posting. |
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Portlandia
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Shiira's cool. The fact that everything from Safari is pulled in makes it easy to try out.
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Hey Brad... Would you be willing to quote Applenova's Browser Statistics (Awstats tracks it...)?
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9" monochrome
Join Date: May 2004
Location: 🇦🇺
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I'd be interested to hear people's thoughts on OmniWeb. In most of the web browser threads it does not really rate a mention. Is this because you folks think it is poor, or because it has not been tried by you yet?
(I personally like it - but not enough to be my main browser. Safari* [1.3.2 on Panther] does me fine for now.) * with AcidSearch! |
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I shot the sherrif.
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If I can't use NoScript, I can't stand the browser. (or something like noscript).
The ability to disable entire domains and render javascript off by default is priceless. Google is your frenemy. Caveat Emptor - Latin for tough titty I tend to interpret things in the way that's most hilarious to me |
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I would be totally over shiira if it could do two things:
-add bookmarks into the safari's bookmark bar folder -work with pithhelmet though speed-wise, I don't see a huge difference between the two, but shiira has much more functionality. |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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Roughly 80% are from good browsers, a few percent are from search bots and miscellaneous browsers, and 17% are from the hellhound itself. Keep in mind that many recent versions of Opera identify themselves as Internet Explorer, much to the disdain of statistics junkies like myself. So, the Opera share should probably be a little higher and the IE share a little lower. I believe Opera has a pretty decent following among Windows users; so, I'd guess it to be around 3% similar to Camino. Quote:
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: London, Europe
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I've been using IE much more of late (I've been working at a clients premises) and it's been absolutely excruciating. A truly bad user experience.
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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Location: San Francisco, CA
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Join Date: May 2004
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I'm not too cluey on the internals of their custom engine vs webkit or whatever, so I'm not greatly fussed by the speed of rendering web pages.
As for stability, it has been fine for me - but, then I've only been using it once in a while. I certainly like its feature set - especially the worksets - but there is something about the management of tabs in the side draw that could be more streamlined I feel. I can't put my finger on how to do it better though, just yet. Still, it is a very well featured browser. |
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