Comments on David Alison's Blog: Safari vs. Firefox

I use both Firefox and Safari. I always used Firef...

2008-11-09T15:39:00.000-05:00

I use both Firefox and Safari. I always used Firefox, but I just recently updated my iTunes, and the update came with Safari, and so I've been using a little bit of Firefox, and a little bit of Safari.
Firefox is better for my Windows Vista laptop, though.
I'd say that Firefox is a little better than Safari, but out of all browsers, Firefox and Safari would be the best choices. As for third place -- I wouldn't know enough browsers to number anything as the third, but I might say that the third best browser is Google Chrome. It downloads in seconds, and it's pretty decent. I don't know enough about it though.

I have not used Safari a whole lot, I have FF 2 se...

2008-03-15T22:20:00.000-04:00

I have not used Safari a whole lot, I have FF 2 set-up exaclty the way I like, but I am trying the FF3 beta3, and it is much faster than FF 2.

Just note if you do try FF 3, I have restore my FF 2 toolbar back to default.

I'm really enjoying the blog. I turned a die-hard PC fan at work onto Macs for the exact reason you are listing with each post.

I use both browsers as well, once i tried making f...

2008-03-15T08:15:00.000-04:00

I use both browsers as well, once i tried making firefox my mine browser because it used less memory than safari for me. But i always find myself going back to safari, right now one feature that safari have, that i find myself looking for in other browsers is the snap back. That little orange arrow to the right of the address bar. comes in very handy for me when i need to get back with one click from where i started browsing.

I would also recommend that you try out WebKit. We...

2008-03-14T23:54:00.000-04:00

I would also recommend that you try out WebKit. WebKit is the framework on which Safari is based on and is updated nightly.
http://webkit.org/

Personally I haven't found it difficult to get thi...

2008-03-14T20:04:00.000-04:00

Personally I haven't found it difficult to get things looking the way I want in Safari, Firefox, Opera, and IE. But you do need to recognize you're limited to a certain set of things, and that sometimes IE requires hacks.

I've found Opera to be the strictest renderer, so if it looks right in Opera, it'll tend to look right everywhere else as long as what you're trying to do is supported.

I also use BBEdit + CSSEdit + Firebug. There are a bunch of Safari bookmarklets that can help too:
Safari Developer FAQ.

Here is the BEST mac browsing set up I've found:1)...

2008-03-14T15:48:00.000-04:00

Here is the BEST mac browsing set up I've found:

1) Safari + Webkit Nightly!!!

Add
1)CocoaSuite for Mouse Gestures to ANY app for any menu item.
2) SafariBlock

Give it a try.

There are addons for Safari, just not as openly su...

2008-03-14T15:11:00.000-04:00

There are addons for Safari, just not as openly supported like Firefox addons. http://pimpmysafari.com/ should get you started if you find something missing from Firefox land.

The one thing that's always kept me coming back to...

2008-03-14T13:02:00.000-04:00

The one thing that's always kept me coming back to Safari is the activity viewer. I find it incredibly useful to be able to view what assets are loading in realtime, and how large they are. You can also copy and paste them into new windows for downloading. Makes it damn easy to grab vids of YouTube and the like

As a newbie to Mac I hadn't hear of it. I'll check...

2008-02-27T10:51:00.000-05:00

As a newbie to Mac I hadn't hear of it. I'll check it out. Thanks for the tip!

You want fast - and Mozilla - on a Mac? Get Camino...

2008-02-27T10:05:00.000-05:00

You want fast - and Mozilla - on a Mac? Get Camino. As the site says: "Mozilla Power, Mac Style."