Safari vs. Firefox [Archive]

Dustu2

07-19-2008, 09:40 PM

I really like Firefox. I just downloaded Safari for the PC, literally... not even 5 minutes ago, using it right now. So far the only reason I've found to like Firefox more is the fact that it remembers usernames/passwords. But I really like the overall look of Safari, pretty sure I'm sticking to it.

Zanthe

07-19-2008, 10:40 PM

Safari for me. I just like t he look and feel better.

Lincoln

07-19-2008, 10:51 PM

Internet Explorer, of course! :eek:

Kidding.

Safari, but only because I'm using OS X. If you're using a PC, you should most definitely use Firefox, but for me, Safari is the only way.

I have no need for a ton of plugins. Using Safari, I have two plugins installed; Safari AdBlock, and ad blocker, and Inquisitor, and spotlight-like add-on for Google searching form the toolbar. Other than that, Safari includes everything I need in a browser. It's simple, has a nice, clean UI, and is very easy to use.

patrickj

07-19-2008, 11:01 PM

Firefox - even on a Mac - faster and nicer UI, for my taste ...

ArEa_CoDe_415

07-20-2008, 01:54 AM

Firefox. ........

styfle

07-20-2008, 02:09 AM

I agree with John. Since I'm using windows I love firefox but I'm sure Safari is great on mac. (I know safari is on windows too but I heard it sucks).

I love FF3 because the password management is amazing (can delete individual passwords from each site), the magic address bar, and of course all the modifications

Bannod

07-20-2008, 10:26 AM

I'm a new Mac and iMac user, only about a month now. I think I prefer Safari, but the one thing I wish it had was the "new tab" button on the menu bar. Yeah, I know I can do the Command T thing, but I'm such a mouse person.

Napoleon_PhoneApart

07-20-2008, 12:20 PM

Firefox 3 in a heartbeat.

Zanthe

07-20-2008, 12:23 PM

Internet Explorer, of course! :eek:

Kidding.You cannot kid about something as serious as that. Your mod authority has been revoked for 3 days. :p

Good day!

Dustu2

07-20-2008, 05:29 PM

"Napoleon_PhoneApart"

I really like that name. :laugh2:

Lincoln

07-20-2008, 09:09 PM

You cannot kid about something as serious as that. Your mod authority has been revoked for 3 days. :p

Good day!

Seriously, have you seen that interface? Gorgeous.

http://ftphelp.secureserver.net/images/IE/ie1.PNG

projectdarkside

07-21-2008, 03:03 AM

FireFox
-Fast
-Tabs (well the first to do it)
-and the pugins are awesome, totally customized!

Youngbinks

07-21-2008, 07:16 PM

Safari on the Mac for sure. I gave FireFox on Mac a try and just didn't like it. On the PC though it is definitely FireFox.

Zanthe

07-21-2008, 07:19 PM

Seriously, have you seen that interface? Gorgeous.

http://ftphelp.secureserver.net/images/IE/ie1.PNGJohn, John, John...stop that. :D

Lincoln

07-21-2008, 10:23 PM

Anybody remember Netscape?

http://mozillalinks.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/netscape9.png

coasts

07-21-2008, 11:25 PM

Anybody remember Netscape?

barely...

im using safari on my mac and firefox at work on a pc. i downloaded firefox at home the other day just so i could get 2.0 early, but i havent used it since.

projectdarkside

07-22-2008, 03:33 AM

Anybody remember Netscape?

http://mozillalinks.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/netscape9.png:gasp:Dude!
-I remember that every school I had went to til middle school used the old slow garbage! And the UI was horrid and bland!:tounge:

connie

07-22-2008, 03:39 AM

Mac=Safari:smile:

Elbacanazo920

07-23-2008, 02:02 PM

Safari Manily because i use OS X and it would feel wrong If i used anything else

Napoleon_PhoneApart

07-23-2008, 06:32 PM

I'm not brand loyal -- I run XP and Leopard 10.5.3 and have Firefox on both.

acosmichippo

07-26-2008, 02:13 AM

me neither. the only benefits i see for using Safari is for easy access to creating webclips, and the integration with other apple software/hardware (iphone, mobileMe, etc).

styfle

07-26-2008, 02:35 AM

Anybody remember Netscape?

http://mozillalinks.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/netscape9.png
Um yes
Firefox is Netscape continued
Did you guys not know that?

acosmichippo

07-26-2008, 03:03 AM

it was based on firefox... not sure if "continued" is the best way to describe it.

Tex

07-28-2008, 08:53 PM

safari..............

projectdarkside

07-29-2008, 02:46 AM

Is safari faster on a Mac than when used on a Windows computer?:gasp:

Saverino

07-29-2008, 04:10 AM

Is safari faster on a Mac than when used on a Windows computer?:gasp:

Well everything being ran on a Mac is faster than a Windows. :wink:
Just kidding. Almost everything though :p

projectdarkside

07-29-2008, 04:32 AM

I had a dream about a Macbook!:tounge: (Serious)
-When I waking up I tried to hold onto it but I woke up with my POS brick of an HP Laptop cutting off the circulation from my legs ROFL!!:tounge:

Saverino

07-29-2008, 04:34 AM

I had a dream about a Macbook!:tounge: (Serious)
-When I waking up I tried to hold onto it but I woke up with my POS brick of an HP Laptop cutting off the circulation from my legs ROFL!!:tounge:

Nerd! :tounge:
Just kidding. Were all nerds here :wink:
:smile:

projectdarkside

07-29-2008, 04:41 AM

aenti

07-29-2008, 11:25 AM

Im gonna buy a white MacBook to match the White iPhone Im gonna buy!:wink: I think its gonna look nice. . .But I'm gonna need to find a "Zagg" so I can buy InvisiShieds for both of them cause I want them to stay white not turn brown/black- and you know how I hate black haha:tounge:

Btw I get paid next thursday!! I'm expecting a $200+ paycheck so that will be more that enough for the 16gb white iPhone!!! After a years of waiting for an iPhone I'll finally have my own instead of hounding others to play with theirs *Grabs random box of kleenex* :laugh2:

Congrats man! Complications are keeping me from my phone.
As to your dream about the macbook, i think i can top that:
-i had a dream where I was waiting in line for a 16gig iPhone 3g. About 3 hours of just WAITING. And when I finally opened it, it was a flip phone. What a stupid dream.

btw- Firefox FTW. Just better at everything.

projectdarkside

07-29-2008, 12:37 PM

Congrats man! Complications are keeping me from my phone.
As to your dream about the macbook, i think i can top that:
-i had a dream where I was waiting in line for a 16gig iPhone 3g. About 3 hours of just WAITING. And when I finally opened it, it was a flip phone. What a stupid dream.

btw- Firefox FTW. Just better at everything.Thanks:laugh2:
-. . .Ewww thats like getting punched in the balls:tounge: I bet it was random Motorola too Lol!

aenti

07-29-2008, 12:40 PM

Yea, it really sucked.
The top part of the phone broke off when i opened it. I only realized it wasn't an iPhone when i woke up too.
ugh. Have you already placed your order?

projectdarkside

07-29-2008, 12:57 PM

No not yet, because my Att store needs the payment up-front or w/e so that when they order it all they have to do is call me to pick it up :)
-Im so excited!! :laugh2:

Swagger

08-01-2008, 11:45 PM

Anybody remember Netscape?

http://mozillalinks.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/netscape9.png

Wow John, you just took me back a million light years. I think Netscape was just phased out not to long ago. Netscape was the pioneer for todays web browsers, so it is do it's respect. That being said, everything out grows it's usefulness and is laid to rest.

Netscape did a lot of joint research with the Mozilla foundation. I love Firefox for Mac, just because I was so used to using it with Windows. The first thing I would do with my previous Windows machine purchases was dump I.E. and download Mozilla...Mark

P.S. I wish there was a version of Firefox for the iPhone. It would be a great replacement for the constantly crashing Safari browser on iPhone...M

SmartAlx

08-02-2008, 01:22 PM

What? No Opera?

You know that everything Firefox claims to have revolutionized Opera perfected 5 years before, right? And it all comes out of the box, no plugins necessary, and it's got a much much MUCH smaller footprint.

So my answer is neither.

EDIT:
Oh! And Opera is faster too.

SmartAlx

08-02-2008, 01:26 PM

FireFox
-Fast
-Tabs (well the first to do it)Are you SERIOUS??? You have got to get educated here. Opera brought the MDI interface to browsers, years before firefox was conceived.

http://operawiki.info/OperaInnovations

aenti

08-02-2008, 03:56 PM

Are you SERIOUS??? You have got to get educated here. Opera brought the MDI interface to browsers, years before firefox was conceived.

http://operawiki.info/OperaInnovations

/whocares.
It was his reasons behind why he like Firefox, you don't have to try to prove him wrong.

projectdarkside

08-03-2008, 11:55 AM

Are you SERIOUS??? You have got to get educated here. Opera brought the MDI interface to browsers, years before firefox was conceived.

http://operawiki.info/OperaInnovationsWow calm down man:angry:
-If you looked at the time in which I posted this you could see that it was before more people at posted the actual "facts' on whats what

Its not that SERIOUS. . .

MileHighRob

08-24-2008, 05:39 AM

Wow calm down man:angry:
-If you looked at the time in which I posted this you could see that it was before more people at posted the actual "facts' on whats what

Its not that SERIOUS. . .

??? - you're joking right?
What does the time have to do with posting the facts?

Witness

08-24-2008, 12:43 PM

I really like safari , it's nice and simple.

Napoleon_PhoneApart

08-24-2008, 02:18 PM

Safari Manily because i use OS X and it would feel wrong If i used anything else

I use Firefox 3 on the Mac half of my PC. Put the Kool-Aid down. :laugh2:

projectdarkside

08-25-2008, 01:41 PM

??? - you're joking right?
What does the time have to do with posting the facts?Im not a nerd that goes around randomly googling the history and facts of safari, firefox, or netscape. When I posted my comment noone had mentioned or posted yet the facts of these browsers

sooo..."get your facts straight"

fury

08-26-2008, 06:50 PM

Overall, Firefox is better, in my opinion (features, addons, ease of backing up and restoring profiles, using multiple versions on the same computer), but I love Safari's faster javascript. I know that comes from webkit, and I'd use another webkit-powered browser if I could find one... until then, Safari is the fast path to any javascript-heavy site I use. (One of them is my game, which has a part of the game that relies quite a bit on how fast your browser's javascript engine can open and close an XmlHttpRequest connection)

monkeysrock0622

08-26-2008, 06:57 PM

I use Safari on my windows laptop, and when I get my first mac (in a few months hopefully :) ) I will still use Safari. I have tried firefox, it is nice, definitely prefer it over internet explorer, but I think Safari has a perfect UI. It is nice, clean, and simple. On top of that, it remembers all of my usernames and passwords (except for myspace, but I think myspace has disabled the password remember-er [is that a word?] due to all the account hacking) so I have no clue why some people think that Safari doesn't remember your passwords. I can even delete them for certain websites if I choose to.

Then again, I am pretty much an Apple fan boy anyways =]

MacHoe

09-01-2008, 02:33 AM

firefox 3

- add plugins like SEO quake, and webmaster plugin to Safari and i'll change my vote..

Lincoln

09-01-2008, 09:12 PM

While I currently still prefer Safari (and will even more when Safari 4 comes out, for it contains the ability to turn webpages into native apps) but I'm going to say that Google's Chrome (http://www.tuaw.com/2008/09/01/google-creating-its-own-browser-based-on-webkit/) is going to turn into my default browser. :2cool:

psylichon

09-01-2008, 09:16 PM

firefox is faster, more efficient, and more fully-featured on the Windows platform. Plus I'm addicted to full page zooming.

I'm really annoyed iRovr went Safari-only... I have to keep Safari on the desktop just for that now.