On May 24, 2004, at 4:46 PM, Thomas Baker wrote:
So what's the deal on this Safari web browser from Apple? I'm thinking of
moving from OS 9 to X, and X lets you use Safari, right? Do you just
download it from Apple the same as you do Internet Explorer from MS, then
make it your default browser, and away you go with it? Can it be as simple
as that? Will it import IE's bookmarks etc?
It's installed as the default browser on the OS. Yes it'll import IE bookmarks.
I heard that Safari loads fast, squashes popup ads, organizes bookmarks
really well, and does other convenient stuff. Sounds like it might be worth
switching to (I'm using IE 5 right now). Thought I'd ask advice here though
before I gave it a try. If Safari is as good as Apple makes it out to be,
why would anyone using OS X use any other browser?
Because it does have some bugs, a few pages don't display correctly in it, some sites don't work properly with it (though that's usually fixable), because you're used to something else.
I use Firefox myself <http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/> this is the standalone browser component of Mozilla. I like it, it's fast, it blocks popups, it doesn't crash etc.
Overall, having used both, they're *very* similar. Camino, another browser based on the Gecko browser engine from Mozilla, but coded specifically for Mac OSX also just released a new version, I've not tried it yet <http://www.mozilla.org/products/camino/> but it also looks almost identical in layout and behavior.
I've been using Mozilla for years now, and originally set that as my browser on OS X, so when Safari came along, it was close enough that I could use it right away, and just different enough that I'd trip over myself, and Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox is the browser we support here at the College, so I just kinda stuck with it.
There's nothing about it or Safari that really bugs me; the biggest difference was that I was used to typing search terms in the main location bar of Mozilla, but there's a separate search bar in Safari and FireFox. Once I got used to it, it's not a big hassle.
Any of them is orders of magnitude better than Internet Explorer. That is an embarrassment.
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