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

I have been using Firefox on OS X for some time now and like it's 
features!

It seems to be pretty solid too.

I don't know Camino.

Paul

On Oct 20, 2004, at 1:31 PM, Eric D wrote:

> 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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