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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?
Author: Tom Sepper
Tom Sepper is the Chief Operating Officer for Site5. He has a beautiful wife and two daughters. He is an Apple, OSX, & iPhone/iPod fanatic.
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iPhone issue solved, no matter what: Bookit will sync ‘em all up nicely, whenever thou wisheth.
As for the Camino help…
Here’s my Camino bookmarks:
print version, feed, and direct link.
Plus, I’ve been following a similar conversation on Eric Meyer’s blog, and helping out–perhaps the hashing out there will help your decision-making as well:
http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/09/07/tweaking-camino
[...] an earlier blog entry, I’ve already explained my personal browser war. I have finally made a choice after a few software updates as well as finding some very helpful [...]