Browserphilia!
tomierna
(Admin)
– December 07, 2007 09:33PM
Does Safari make your soldier salute? Does Camino put the starch in
your shorts, or do you prefer the petit piquancy of OmniWeb's studded rubber
nubs?
Or do you saving a (very) personal space on your Dock for the Mac version
of Opera? Hmmmmmmm?
rino
– May 28, 2009 10:38AM
In America, the only respectable form of socialism is socialism for the rich.
Au contraire ... Apple has fostered along WebKit and CSS3, JS, offline db storage, and HTML5 features which handily provide an alternative to Flash.
Google is on board too. You read this?
http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/05/google-bets-big-on-html-5.html
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I run clicktoflash but not on this machine any more b/c it was interfering with legit sites I use.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/28/2009 10:39AM by rino.
stan adams
– May 28, 2009 10:44AM
I phrased that inelegantly. I know all about Apple and Google and the efforts of few others to swim against the tide, but unlike MSFT that actually hurls gobs of money at PROMOTING THEIR TOOLS AS better than Adobe's, Apple does not seem to have a coherent means of getting DEVELOPERS of non-iPhone centric sites / apps to acknowledge the limitations of Flash.
Clear?
johnny k
– June 02, 2009 03:01PM
Quote
rino
I run clicktoflash but not on this machine any more b/c it was interfering with legit sites I use.
You know you can control-click or click on the little gear to add those sites to a whitelist, right?
tliet
– June 03, 2009 07:04AM
Wow Firefox 3.5 is fast. But 3.5b4 on the Hackintosh mini 9 and am pleasantly surprised by the speed, everything feels faster. Great.
rino
– June 03, 2009 09:07AM
In America, the only respectable form of socialism is socialism for the rich.
yep --- it tends to fark with sites that call/load other .swfs like nba, hulu, msnbc to load video or other nav. Still use it on this machine and no problem though ... you know how you can get lazy about paying attention to what's causing the issue. Maybe not click2flash at all.
Cloudscout
– June 08, 2009 10:18AM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
Not sure about the OSX version, but the Windows version of Safari 4 no longer has tabs in the title bar. They went back to the tab bar like Safari 3. Oh well.
rino
– June 08, 2009 04:28PM
In America, the only respectable form of socialism is socialism for the rich.
I'm happy with the changes in S4 on mac. Nicer, larger hit target for the stop button... seems faster than the beta, i'll see about the often 100% consumption of CPU and the memory footprint which ballooned like crazy in the beta.
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ack FFS -- 215mb and two windows, one tab each. Gack! I guess this is why we have 6gb of ram these days.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/08/2009 04:29PM by rino.
John Willoughby
– June 30, 2009 08:32AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
The new Firefox is supposed to be able to play embedded video without plugins. The intro page touts this new feature, saying "Try it!" with an embedded video. Every time I click their embedded video, Firefox crashes. Not impressed.
stan adams
– June 30, 2009 09:13AM
but you tried it!
They win...
tliet
– July 08, 2009 01:29PM
Google's growing a pair I think. This is the Google.com page when I go there using IE7 on Windows 2003 (at Amazon EC2)...
stan adams
– July 08, 2009 04:49PM
Ireland?
John Willoughby
– July 08, 2009 09:31PM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Faith and begorra, 'tis a foin new browser for ye t'download!
tliet
– July 09, 2009 05:53AM
Amazon's hosting centre is in Dublin (or the IP address says so). Interestingly, the Chrome button (which is rather huge) shows up only on Google.ie, not on Google.com.
stan adams
– July 09, 2009 07:44AM
ie -> I.E. wonder if the yucksters in the centre just crack themselves up all day on that one...
bahamut
– August 07, 2009 04:14PM
4 months or so with Safari and now its back to Firefox. Why did I think Safari was fast? Firefox rocks. PLUS, it has add-ons. Ah bliss.
tomierna
(Admin)
– August 07, 2009 06:12PM
Hideously Unnatural
You can add many of the Greasemonkey scripts into Safari with GreaseKit.
Not that I think it would cause you to switch back, just noting it.
bahamut
– August 09, 2009 06:22AM
That's great to know. Thanks, Tom. One of the things that bugged me about Safari was that it broke every plug in whenever it was updated.
Firefox is a dream. Glad to be home.
John Willoughby
– June 10, 2010 11:39AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Safari 5 hidden feature: open an accidentally closed tab by pressing Cmd-Z.
ddt
– June 16, 2010 01:31PM
did command+ in safari always zoom the whole page? did it used to be like in camino/firefox, where it enlarges the text?
ddt
porruka
(Admin)
– June 16, 2010 01:56PM
It's doing it in Safari 4 and Firefox 3.6.3 both; I used to think it just did text, but now I don't know where the boundary is between text only and full-zoom (or if it's a preference of some sort)
