Guide to OS X Browsers
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One of the biggest weaknesses that Mac OS X has had throughout the years is a solid, feature rich browser. When I started using Mac OS X back in the 10.0 days, I would look for new browsers every couple of months or so. This so-called guide to the current state of browsing on OS X by Brisbane Creative does point out some of the flaws and benefits to the current browser offerings. I don’t think they did as good of an overall comparison as point out how the browsers succeeded and/or failed to meet their needs. Still its a good list of the current browsers out there. As the image to the left indicates, my last browser search about a year ago had me switch exclusively to Opera and it has worked very well for me. |
I was an early user of Opera. Even paid for it, way back when.
Stopped using it when FireFox on the PC got good.
Mainly just use Safari now, unless a site bombs with it.
Comment by Tommy — March 8, 2007 @ 9:51 pm
I have had a very rocky relationship with Safari. I am not sure if its the number of windows/tabs I keep open or what is in them, but I was hardpressed to go a week without Safari crashing. Opera crashes much less frequently one me and when it does (usually because of Java or phpMyAdmin’s Designer with 77 tables) I can reopen Opera and chose to have it open all the windows I had open. Saving me the effort of having to do it mahself.
Comment by roclar — March 9, 2007 @ 7:05 am
I rarely have Safari crash. But I do miss the “reopen all the open windows” from Opera.
Comment by Tommy — March 9, 2007 @ 11:58 am
Macintalk posted Mac OS X Browsers Benchmarked (digg Referer) today. OmniWeb seem to win on performance, but I am still sticking with Opera until it does something to make me grumpy.
Comment by roclar — March 31, 2007 @ 6:39 pm