[muglo] Re: what browsers you like, on OSX 10.3?

My favourites on the Mac are Safari and Camino. You ought to check out 
FireFox, and, if you can stand the bloat, Mozilla or Netscape. You may also 
find that iCab, Opera or OmniWeb will fit your bill. OmniWeb and iCab have 
some pretty unique features but I've never been impressed by their rendering 
engine. They'd both do themselves huge favours if they were to adopt 
Safari's or Mozilla's core and stick their own (unique) GUI on top.

iCab is very good at what it does but (unfortunately) is starting to lag in 
terms of some of the (not so new anymore) newer web technologies (CSS being 
the most obvious). iCab still does duty as part of an automated weather data 
download script but I haven't been doing much with that data of late so I'm 
afraid I've lost touch with how iCab works (and, besides, I now have an 
alternate source for that data).


FYI You can schedule the launch of applications by 'cron' (it's the built-in 
UNIX scheduling application) with a user-friendly interface (can't remember 
what app I use for it... it's in my Applications menu somewhere).

I've been using FireFox 0.92 under YellowDogLinux for most of my browsing of 
late and it works very nicely. Not quite as slick as Safari on the Mac but 
still a mature browser.

>From: Joe McGuire <tinfoil@xxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [muglo] Re: what browsers you like, on OSX 10.3?
>Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 09:00:45 -0400
>
>Safari, Safari, Safari!
>
>Though I will admit to being surprised that Apple used the KHTML
>engine as the base rather than the Gecko engine. Safari was a dog when
>it first came out.
>
>
>On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 00:50:25 -0400, Tee Cashmore <teecashmore@xxxxxx> 
>wrote:
> >
> > On 19-Oct-04, at 9:24 PM, Biti wrote:
> >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I am getting rid of Internet Explorer, for many reasons. Not least,
> > > that it is no longer supported in OSX and I can't use Google Mail with
> > > it. I have about 5,000 bookmarks in IE, so I am trying to find an
> > > alternative that will import the IE bookmarks. Safari is a no can do.
> > >
> > > Are there any suggestions? So far the alternatives are camino, 
>foxfire,
> > > ummm and a couple I can't remember. I haven't tested them with 
>bookmark
> > > imports, but any browsers you like, please suggest.
> > >
> > >
> > > Biti
> > Safari will do it. It sees the list of bookmarks as "Favourites" &
> > imports them. It did quite quickly with mine from Netscape after I
> > figured where it put them.


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