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This topic contains 33 replies, has 22 voices, and was last updated by  Rich Mariner 11 years, 11 months ago.

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  • February 14, 2009 at 11:49 am #66587

    Denise Hill
    Participant

    Safari or FoxFire?

  • February 14, 2009 at 5:29 pm #66653

    Rich Mariner
    Participant

    I use both. I prefer Firefox over every other browser. I like Chrome but it doesn’t have the Google toolbar(go figure). I downloaded IE 8 yesterday. It reminds me a heck of a lot of Firefox. Now that I think about it if I could get a Google toolbar or similar for Safari I would go with it being on a par with FF.

  • February 25, 2009 at 3:37 am #66651

    W. David Stephenson
    Participant

    Foxfire (I actually use the integrated SeaMonkey suite): don’t think Safari has enough versatility. Open source rules (of course I woudn’t give up my mac!)

  • February 25, 2009 at 3:40 am #66649

    Denise Hill
    Participant

    Thanks. I am quickly learning the virtues of FireFox. What took me so long?

  • February 25, 2009 at 6:19 am #66647

    Marilyn Clark
    Participant

    Firefox, but I could be convinced to give Safari another try.

    First of all, it’s easier to develop for Firefox. Safari has so much funky weirdness that requires browser specific coding. And the plug-ins. There’s so many add ons for firefox that are great low/no-cost tools for testing accessibility compliance and more.

  • February 25, 2009 at 1:10 pm #66645

    Naomi A. Williams
    Participant

    I use Flock and love it!!!

  • February 27, 2009 at 2:35 am #66643

    Donald Jones
    Participant

    I use the Safari 4 beta. I used Webkit + Glims, Inquisitor, Adblock, 1Password. I hope to add back Adblock as soon as it works with Safari 4. I’m still getting used to the tabs on top, but so far its very nice!

  • February 27, 2009 at 1:30 pm #66641

    Rich Mariner
    Participant

    What do you think of Safari 4? I’ve heard very good things. Is the beta stable. I would like to download to my PC at work. Sadly I don’t have a MAC here yet. But I’m working on it…

  • March 12, 2009 at 4:52 am #66639

    John Folk-Williams
    Participant

    I use Firefox primarily – never touch Safari because I just need to have that sidebar. I use Flock for special purposes, such as online courses and coordinating social media. Recently, I got Fluid, which is quite different. When it pops up. there is no browser – you add the name of a web service like Friendfeed or LinkedIn or anything you like. You then have a browser names for and dedicated to that web app. I set up dedicated browsers for the major social media I use. I’m still getting used to that approach – there are drawbacks with multiple browsers, such as syncing bookmarks and just the problem of flipping back and forth. 1 Password is integrated with Fluid apps, and that helps greatly so you’re not always filling in your account names.

    Fluid is an experiment that needs more work. Firefox is the standby.

  • April 3, 2009 at 7:33 pm #66637

    Health Communicator
    Participant

    Firefox.

  • April 7, 2009 at 4:30 pm #66635

    Kathryn Mir-Mohisefat
    Participant

    Definitely Firefox for me.

  • April 8, 2009 at 2:22 am #66633

    Denise Hill
    Participant

    I have switched to Firefox. I know that I have not tapped the surface of the capabilities. Will need to work on this. Thanks

  • April 8, 2009 at 2:40 am #66631

    Steve Ressler
    Keymaster

    Firefox all the way….never been a big fan of Safari…

  • April 11, 2009 at 2:26 pm #66629

    Berta
    Participant

    Did you get a mac yet? One of the best things you could do for yourself (tech-wise at least)!

  • April 11, 2009 at 2:27 pm #66627

    Berta
    Participant

    I use Firefox for everything. It is just an awesome web browser…..Safari can be slow.

  • May 8, 2009 at 2:08 am #66625

    PDW
    Participant

    I have Firefox, Safari, and IE at home on a Mac and only use Firefox. At work on my PC, I have Firefox and IE and use both, What’s strange is GovLoop link’s don’t work for me on the PC, but I get graphics and the links work at home on the Mac.

  • May 21, 2009 at 2:02 pm #66623

    Dann Determan
    Participant

    Firefox

  • June 1, 2009 at 2:31 pm #66621

    Kevin Lanahan
    Participant

    Firefox. I get a consistent user experience across all my computers that way.

  • December 8, 2009 at 10:12 pm #66619

    Nerida Hart
    Participant

    I prefer and use Firefox – but that said just downloaded the latest Chrome (firend who is a Geek uses Chrome on all his Macs and loves it). I am not sure yet. Don’t use Safari because I could not get netbanking to operate properly with it. My kids all use Firefox as well – which tells me something I am sure

  • February 25, 2010 at 5:33 pm #66617

    Lisa Pierson
    Participant

    Firefox mostly, however I do hope Safari would gain wider acceptance by users and developers for a professional point of view. And I think IE is garbage.

  • February 25, 2010 at 7:30 pm #66615

    Marc Starzyk
    Participant

    I use Safari quite a bit, but I still have sites and web applications that require IE. It is a pain, but I have to fir up Parallels and launch IE.

  • February 26, 2010 at 2:14 am #66613

    Denise Hill
    Participant

    I am still hooked on Firefox. IE 8 is a lagging (being generous) version of Firefox. Have not been drawn to returning to Safari.

  • March 23, 2010 at 1:35 pm #66611

    Jeff Self
    Participant

    Never heard of FoxFire. I use FireFox. And I’ve started to use Chrome a lot more because its so clean looking and very fast.

  • March 23, 2010 at 2:13 pm #66609

    Lisa Pierson
    Participant

    I use both, but Firefox is used more often.

  • March 28, 2010 at 8:10 pm #66607

    Sonny Hashmi
    Participant

    Firefox for biz apps since it is better compatible with most, Safari for most general purpose browsing. IE8 via Fusion when I absolutely have to.

  • March 28, 2010 at 8:11 pm #66605

    Steve Ressler
    Keymaster

    Chrome all day…

  • March 28, 2010 at 8:18 pm #66603

    Sonny Hashmi
    Participant

    I find Firefox to be much slower than Safari. I havent gotten hooked on Chrome yet. No particular reason. One of the deal breakers for me with Firefox is the lack of mac-wide shortcuts that I am used to (Cmd-Shift-Y, Cmd-Ctrl-D, etc.).

  • March 28, 2010 at 8:23 pm #66601

    Steve Ressler
    Keymaster

    Chrome seems way faster for me on my Mac. I also like how address bar is same as search bar

  • April 6, 2010 at 3:32 pm #66599

    Richard Fong
    Participant

    Chrome, Safari, and FF…I use each of these browsers everyday on my MacBook Pro. Although, I do like Chrome the best!

  • April 6, 2010 at 6:13 pm #66597

    Steve Ressler
    Keymaster

    Favorite extensions on chrome?

  • April 12, 2010 at 1:44 pm #66595

    Paulette Marino
    Participant

    I use both but while I prefer Safari, FoxFire works better on many sites.

  • April 12, 2010 at 1:45 pm #66593

    Paulette Marino
    Participant

    The correct name is FireFox (most of us used the incorrect FoxFire!)

  • May 12, 2010 at 11:08 am #66591

    Denise Petet
    Participant

    firefox. the ad and flashblock are mandatory to surf anywhere without being bogged down with those stupid ads. I swear, they make them more and more obnoxious to get peoples attention, yet the more obnoxious they make them, the more you want to block them.

    I hold Safari in reserve because there are a few sites that don’t play well with firefox or that need flash to browse them. IE is there as a complete and total last resort.

    I haven’t tried google chrome, i’m kinda afraid to. I know google itself collects so much info on searches I’m kinda leery about using their browser and giving them that much more info they can sell or use.

  • May 18, 2010 at 8:55 pm #66589

    Richard Fong
    Participant

    ChromePad and Weather.com

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