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Mac People: Safari or Firefox 3?

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Re: Mac People: Safari or Firefox 3?

#21
I'm still sticking with Safari. Safari UX is just..nicer. To me, that is.

On the other hand, Firefox is definitely powerful and I love some of the addons, so I'll use it for development purposes - a lot of Firebug etc., have become moot with Safari's new and hot developer tools, but I still need to do some Firefox-specific things. But I don't want to spend so much time customizing how it looks/behaves.

Re: Mac People: Safari or Firefox 3?

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post #20

For security reasons you need more than one browser anyway. One for webmail, banking and all kinds of private password-protected stuff, and the second one - for the rest. Which is which doesn't really matter, although personally I chose Safari for important stuff and Firefox for the rest. One of the reasons I do this, in case you are not aware, is the IFRAME flaw, that allows a malicious web site to load, say, your b…

Why not just use different profiles and run multiple instances of Firefox?

Re: Mac People: Safari or Firefox 3?

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FF3, here's why: 1) Add-ons. I can customize more than Safari and plugging into the cloud today is more important than ever. 2) Safari is snappy but the new release of FF puts it on par if not over the top. Safari is way better for pr0n surfing, however :P

Re: Mac People: Safari or Firefox 3?

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post #20

For security reasons you need more than one browser anyway. One for webmail, banking and all kinds of private password-protected stuff, and the second one - for the rest. Which is which doesn't really matter, although personally I chose Safari for important stuff and Firefox for the rest. One of the reasons I do this, in case you are not aware, is the IFRAME flaw, that allows a malicious web site to load, say, your b…

Why not just use different profiles and run multiple instances of Firefox?

If I can run them simultaneously, then why not. Is it possible with FF?

Re: Mac People: Safari or Firefox 3?

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When I switched from Windows, I went straight to Firefox because I felt comfortable there. But (3 years ago), Firefox started getting buggy and slow. I loved the add-ons, but I switched to Camino because it was more Mac-like and stable. But since Beta 3 for Firefox came out, I've switched back and been really impressed with it. One feature that Firefox and Camino both have is the "Search for text when I start typing"…

Safari has the search for text while typing now too. It's cool.

Really? How would I enable this? I don't see anything in prefs for Safari 3.1.1.
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