Firefox vs. Safari - For a Mac user, which is better?
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From what I've gathered, the biggest draw to Firefox is the extensions. If you've got addons installed that you've grown dependent on, the transition to another browser will be a tough one.
Before you decide for sure, I'd encourage you to broaden your choices a bit. There are so many free and interesting browsers for OS X. Be sure to check out:
- Camino (very fast and lightweight),
- Opera (beautiful experience),
- Flock (for blogging/social networking), and
- OmniWeb (the only for-pay browser I know of at $15 and worth it.)
You've probably heard of some or all of these, and it doesn't do too well to answer your question. Ahh well just trying to be helpful. If you know of any other cool browsers, please let me know. :)
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Plus, Safari doesn't reload the page with F5 key, which I use a lot in Firefox.
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I use Firefox on my Mac because it has useful add-ons like the delicious extension, which I use daily. I love the Awesome Bar. I also like the Firefox logo and enjoy seeing it's orangeness in my dock.
Safari integrates better into OS X, especially with features like Web clips and the services menu. Safari looks better, or at least more Mac-like. Safari *feels* faster than Firefox, but I don't know if this is really true or not. Safari has a private browsing mode, which is useful, but the next version of Firefox will acquire this feature as well.
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I'm now a Firefox devotee. I've been a Mac user since 1986 and currently keep three browsers on my system. Camino - SUPERFAST and pretty bare bones. Safari - Mac integrated but with some hiccups on sites not optimized for it. Firefox - full-featured and gaining more plug-ins and functionality by the day.
My routine is to keep Camino as the browser hooked up to Mail (by going into Safari and setting it as the default on my machine). When I click on a link in an email and want it to open immediately, there's no better browser.
When I'm Twittering or surfing, I use Firefox. The best current feature is that Firefox remembers the sites I had open when I shut down so I can open it up again and not lose a step the next day.
I use Safari only when I need to download Apple stuff or when a site is clearly Apple-specific.
Hope that helps. Good luck.
I'm the source. I've used Macs since the Mac Plus I used in college. Since then I've had.... Mac SE, Powerbook 100, Powerbook 145B, Mac LC, G4 Tower, G4 iBook, Macbook (blackbook).
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- If you want speed, use Safari.
- If you use plug-ins productively use Firefox.
- If you spend a lot of time on media sharing or social networking sites use Flock.
For your use I'd recommend using Flock and configuring it to work with your Youtube, Flickr, Delicious, Facebook, blog and email accounts.
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I have tried it off and on for a couple of years on the PC and I find it unbearably slow. It freezes frequently. I even get messages that scripts on (whatever) web site are slowing my computer and might cause it to freeze.
When I got the MAC, I hated Safari ( and still do ) so I installed FireFox and thought now I could tell my friends I am now a FireFox user. Unfortunately I find that FireFox is a bomb on my MAC Pro with 6gigs RAM. I get the same freezups and warning messages as I do on the PC.
I use IE on the PC and Safari on the MAC. I still don't like Safari, but I use it because it works. ( And after all, that is why I bought the MAC. Because it works.)
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Something that will help your experience with Firefox on both Mac and PC is an extension called NoScript. It lets you keep web pages from running Java Script and other things without your permission, and it blocks a wide variety of scripting and non-scripting based security vulnerabilities that Firefox and all other modern browsers are subject to. However, you'll need to flag many of the sites you use frequently as trusted, allowing scripts to run on them, after installing it, for them to be fully functional. (Bad design hurts everyone, people.) Also, you'll want to turn off the pop-up and sound notification in NoScript's preferences.
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I use firefox as my day-to-day browser. If however I need to check something quickly (and dont want to forever for the dang app to load)/watch streaming video/get something done fast I use Safari.
That said its really a matter of personal preference. Some people love Camino and some love Webkit aswell.
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thanks for the tips. I already use grc.com/passwords and listen to security now so I am familiar with the dangers of weak passwords.
For the average web browser (the person, not the application) they don't want to have to think about things like this. The simple fact is that chrome should be doing a better job and not expect its users to be so vigilant.
If you're using a Mac and concerned with strong password generation/management, you should be using something like 1password from Agile Web Solutions. It hooks into almost every browser available for the Mac and provides a secure method of storing your passwords and syncing them across multiple Macs, iPhones, and PalmOS devices. I know there are others out there, but 1password is the one I use myself, and I know I could never live without it now. Also, for just creating good passwords without software, https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm is a good place to go.
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Actually, for as much as I'm into this kind of thing, I have yet to research web browsers, so I'm learning a lot right now. I just installed Flock and am playing around with it right now. It's extremely tailored to my needs. I might check out some of the other ones you mentioned though. Thanks!