Topic: Safari/Firefox on a Mac

[florence]

I use a mac and until now I had been browsing this site with Safari.  However, I tried Firefox because a picture wouldn't load and to my amazement the whole site works better with Firefox and it seems quicker too.  Just thought I would share this in case anyone else has a mac.

[bill440cars]

I use a mac and until now I had been browsing this site with Safari.  However, I tried Firefox because a picture wouldn't load and to my amazement the whole site works better with Firefox and it seems quicker too.  Just thought I would share this in case anyone else has a mac.

         Hadn't heard of Safari myself. I did use Internet Explorer until one day, some time back, They were talking about Firefox and I've been using IT ever since. Thanks for sharing though, there might still be some out there who don't know about Firefox.

                                 Later on, Bill

[GoatBaSS]

Firefox goooooooooooood!
Improves both platforms.

[dustyc]

Firefox goooooooooooood!

Agreed.  I also use Foxit Reader for PDFs instead of Acrobat.  Acrobat would lock up all the time and was a big bloated memory hogging program.  As well as Open Office rather than MS Office.  It's free and good.  And AVG free edition for anti-virus. 

[SteveD CB500F]

Florence. I changed the title of the thread.

Hope you don't mind.

Steve

[mark]

Firefox goooooooooooood!

Agreed.  I also use Foxit Reader for PDFs instead of Acrobat.  Acrobat would lock up all the time and was a big bloated memory hogging program.  As well as Open Office rather than MS Office.  It's free and good.  And AVG free edition for anti-virus. 

Yep. Firefox works. AVG works. Foxit was a good tip - acrobat is a p.i.t.a. What's a mac?

[mick750F]

Hey Florence...Thanks for the tip! I've been suffering with Safari for a while now and after reading your post decided to do something about it. WOW! What a difference! I'm now one of the converted...One of us, one of us, one of us. 

Mike

[gerhed]

--Been using Safari on a Mac--seems O.K.--what problems?

[DammitDan]

Instead of Firefox, try Camino.

Camino is the native app version of Firefox for mac (both are made my Mozilla)

I stick with Firefox on my PC and Camino on my Mac 

[mlinder]

I use firefox on linux. Works pretty well.
Gerhed, some older Macs have issues with performance and safari, which has become a little bloated over the last couple years of updates. I noticed you had a pretty new Mac, from your desktop post. Newer Macs with plenty of memory don't really slow down using Safari, but many of the slower G4's and G3's do.

[mick750F]

--Been using Safari on a Mac--seems O.K.--what problems?

   For me and my Mac G4 w/Safari and dial-up, browsing on some sites such as ebay was becoming nearly insufferable. Add to that, msn recently updated hotmail and it isn't very friendly to Safari at all. Even though it would show me logged in I would have to log out then back in to access hotmail. It sometimes couldn't allow me to log out and refused to remember my password. Five minutes of fiddling is no way to get to your email. Firefox has changed all of that to the point where I sometimes, just sometimes, feel I have a dsl connection. This site loads much faster as does every site I've been to so far.

Mike