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. > > > _________________________________________________ > > For information concerning the MUGLO List just click on > > http://muglo.on.ca/Pages/joinus.html > > Don't forget to periodically check our web site at: > > http://muglo.on.ca/ > > _________________________________________________ For information concerning the MUGLO List just click on http://muglo.on.ca/Pages/joinus.html Don't forget to periodically check our web site at: http://muglo.on.ca/