Aug
20

My Own Personal Browser War

My name is Tom and I have a problem.

No, this isn’t an AA meeting. My problem is deciding what browser to use on my PowerBook. My choices:

Each have their advantages and disadvantages. Here are my opinions/observations:

  • Firefox is slow compared to Safari and Camino. Additionally, it’s painfully slow compared to the Windows version of Firefox.
  • Camino has the Mac feel to it but doesn’t support Firefox extensions.
  • Safari has the Apple name and Mac feel to it but doesn’t support Firefox extensions naturally.
  • Safari and Camino are both very fast.
  • WordPress’s visual text editor (TinyMCE) doesn’t work in Safari. I use WordPress on many sites, so this is a huge loss.
  • Flock is rather new on the scene and built off of the Gecko rendering engine (Firefox) but doesn’t fully support all Firefox extensions.
  • Flock still seems bloated and very beta.
  • Safari’s bookmarks sync with my iPhone.
  • Safari has a weird cookie issue with Microsoft Outlook Web Access that’s quite annoying.

So my question to my three readers: What browser would you suggest I use?

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