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I love browsing the web. I also love collecting available web browsers for Mac. Below, there are several well-known web browsers, you should have heard. But I think this topic will be practical for Mac switchers, so I bring this up. Hope you can extract the benefit out of this topic.
Safari
This silver-based browser interface looks very simple. Its pleasing view make it match the simplicity of your Mac. Have high rate performance, built-in finder, built-in artificial intelligence to help you fill in forms, good security, easy to access RSS Feedback and flexible text field. I simply love the layout.
Mozilla Firefox
This browser has lots of add ons, many web tools, and built-in toolbars that can be used. This browser also has great security. I greatly appreciate the security they support.
Opera
Web browser with many products that make you feel more comfortable, like opera for mobile phone and opera for nintendo. Has ability to add more widgets into it, has speed dial feature that help you access your favorite sites faster, and has tools for transferring data. And lots of more special feature inside, IRC chat, graphics, language, security options, and many many of them. This browser features are cool, especially the feature to add widgets.
Shiira
This web browser is able to print web page as PDF file, access special character for Mac, encode text into many of unicodes, and show bookmarks, history, download, page holder, or RSS in sidebar. I like the sidebar.
And also there is a browser called Demeter which is the continuation of Shiira.
Demeter
Netscape
We can manage to see really hot news with this browser and also provide with auto checking for encoded text. It also provide you with capability of restarting the browser. Reading hot stories help me a lot.
The development of Netscape has been officially discontinued. And they come out with SeaMonkey.
SeaMonkey
Flock
Web browser that has good benefit in socialize with people around the world, it has MySpace, MTV, YouTube and it can invite a friend. Also for bloggers, flock save your blog address and you can open it whenever you want. Also has the feature to find popular sites where you can upload photos. This browser is great for making blog.
Camino
Browser released by mozilla enterprise. This browser gives you initial bookmarks for Mac sites. It also has tabs that called 'Mac News Tabs' to open new tabs that contain latest news on Mac. And also has new feature for checking your spelling.
OmniWeb
For this browser, but you only get 30 days trial without license. However, it has many useful products.
iCab
This browser can be viewed in full screen by entering its kiosk mode. But be sure you remember your password, it is needed to leave this mode. When you download this browser, it will appear in extension .sit . I use The Unarchiver to unzip this.
Journler
This is just a Web Kit, enhanced with Safari Browser interface, specially use for taking notes. If you like to take note of as much information as possible for specific web source, use this kit. You can sort your notes by category or classify them by tags. As for the name, very suitable for journalizing.
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42 Comments
Josso
Any reson, that you're using pictures of old browsers?? F.ex. Firefox2 and Opera 9 (instead of Firefox3 and Opera9.5)
Wendy
Gotcha, so you've noticed that! Those are the pictures I snap at the very first day I switched to Mac, about 1 year ago :)
Josso
Lol... A lot have changed since... :)
SpaceCat85
You should probably take Netscape out of there, since it has been discontinued. Good idea for an overview, though. It might be good to add Seamonkey (continuation of Netscape/Mozilla suite) and Demeter (continuation of Shiira) to the list as well?
darek
I'm using Safari as my main browser, it's fast and easy to use. Firefox is for web development (firebug).
MacPhobia
I also love Safari than Firefox in Mac
Wendy
Thanks for the comments. I've added SeaMonkey and Demeter to the list.
Stolencheese
Cheers!
Shamus
A couple of things on my Mac. 1. On some sites they will not reconize mac os and you cannot open it. 2. Some email attachments I get I have to keep switching defaut web browsers. What can I do to fix this
david
i am having problems using web browsers that are compatible with mac firefox was fine but now the pages come up corrupted and no images available anyone know why this is happening and how i can recitfy this any suggestions as to which other browsers are good for mac greatly appreciated cheers David
limousine
good stuff mate ... this will really help as safari doesnt always load asp.net websites on my macbook.
danowen
Thank you! Nicely laid out, too.
Could you point me to the way you do the comments, please? I am redoing my website and intend to include comments.
Thanks again,
Dan
Rob Tillett
I use Camino, as it is fast and has loads of good features. It is faster than Firefox and more compliant and flexible than Safari. I check websites we design with many browsers, for Mac and PC. The best and fastest Mac browsers in order are Camino, ICab, OmniWeb, Safari, Opera, Firefox. Netscape was good, but I have not tried SeaMonkey. Firefox is good if you use the many addons, but the more you have the slower it runs. Opera used to be the best but now seems a bit clunky. Flock is too slow. I have not tried Demeter. Of the most popular browsers I like Safari and Firefox. But Firefox is best on Windows, definitely.
Limo Hire
Great info.
One Lemon
I LOVE OPERA. OPERA SO PRO MAN. I suggest everyone downloads opera 10. It's fast even your connection isn't that good, and it downloads fast. Flock is fast, but I dont like the interface. and for iCab, everytime you open it, it has this little note which tells you to buy iCab. its anoying. Demeter is also recomened. It's super fast and MUCH better than Shiira. Shiira has this anoying bar at the bottom. Camino is also ok. Safari's new interface (10.something) Is nice, and it's fast. Firefox laggs when you use a different interface. Also it lags whaen you have more addons. I recommend everyone to use Opera 10
Jack
I went to Korea for a short stint there. As with most countries, the predominant OS is Windows. Therefore, the Korean websites are designed for Internet Exlorer. A lot of the sites don't work with Firefox even on a PC. It needs IE. Does anybody know why this is so? Is there a browser that can mimic IE and allow me to listen to their web-based music sites
buffalo bill
Just looking for a browser that is fast, has tabbed browsing, is customizable, and isn't a memory hog. Opera is my current browser. I use Shiira, and Firefox to load pages that won't load in Opera. Safari is pathetic-slow, bloated, and a memory hog.
i_shunt
i have IE for mac too, but so trashy, do you know cruz ?
Bobert McCockstocker
Thx now i have 13 different web browsers in all!!
Neil
Just wondering if anyone has had issues using their MacBook iSight cam in chat rooms? Are there any browsers that support it? I am using Firefox, but it doesn't seem to support the webcam - or even recognise it in any way. The cam is working tho - I tested it out in aMSN and it works fine in there.
Limo Hire
I think Firefox is the best option here.
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I always use Firefox. It's a great web browser!
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I'm a big Safari fan, it's hand down the best browser I've ever used, but I admit I'm a bit of an apple fanboy. Still I have to use firefox and chrome every day at work, and out of the two, I'd pick chrome for not hogging up all the ram, and for the better UI.
nic
I must say I use Mozilla and it`s a great browser with a good speed and offer a good Web Security.I recommend it to everyone.
Timothy
This is a very interesting article. I am a fan of Opera. It has the ability to add more widgets into it,has speed dial feature that help you access your favorite sites faster, has tools for transferring data and more special feature graphics, language or Internet Security options.
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