Comments on: Browser of Choice?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:35:23 +0000

I'm a fan of OmniWeb for the flexibility it offers for tabbed browsing, and how it remembers "workspaces" (what FireFox refers to as "sessions," I believe.)

By: Tim Buchheim

Tim Buchheim — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:10:13 +0000

Safari. Best UI by far, and WebKit is really great these days.

By: Gordon Tyler

Gordon Tyler — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:12:48 +0000

I voted Something Else because, alas, my primary computers are Windows PCs where I use Google Chrome. Otherwise, I use Safari on the wife's Macbook Pro

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:50:23 +0000

macosxhints.com - Force 'new window' links to open in new tabs in Safari There's a bunch of hidden preferences, but this is the most useful.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:10:04 +0000

Safari is too fast, dependable, sleek not to use. I've tried my darnedest to like FF but it's slow as molasses compared to Safari. I only wish Safari could send virtually all clicks to tab instead of a new window. That would make it just about perfect.

By: Naum

Naum — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:29:43 +0000

Firefox.

Because of plugins like Delicious and Firebug, but mainly because of the full page zoom feature that remembers on a domain basis what your preferred zoom setting isâ€¦

Contemplated switching to Safari 4 but Firefox 3.5+ (released in the past week) seems to have resolved the ill where I had to restart Firefox every day or so due to intermittent spinning beach balls (memory leakage I presumeâ€¦). Seems just as snappy as Safari 4 nowâ€¦

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:06:39 +0000

Safari. It's fast, has a great UI, and it rarely gives me trouble anymore.

There's also a handful of plugins/add-ons/hacks for Safari that add all of the functionality that I'd miss from Firefox. ClickToFlash, for example.

By: Marshall Mickelson

Marshall Mickelson — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:06:00 +0000

Using Safari on my mac, and settled on Chrome for Windows. I have been a Firefox supporter since it was version 0.7 or so, but recently have given up on it completely. It is too slow to load, and chews up way too much memory. Chrome has it's own problems too, but at least it is responsive on startup and doesnt eat all of my RAM.

Safari 4 has hit the sweet spot for me. Now, if only I could get rid of Windows at work...

By: Everardo

Everardo — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:36:53 +0000

I use Google Chrome as much as I can but often have to go back to IE for other features or better viewing some sites. If IE was so incredibly slow I wouldn't mind it being my primary.

By: Matt Sayler

Matt Sayler — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:50:33 +0000

Andrew said on June 23, 2009:

Firefox. It's hard to live without Adblock+, FlashBlock, Google Customizer, Bug Me Not, and Firebug.

What he said.