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Author Message bracheen Senior Member Username: bracheen Post Number: 1339 Registered: 11-2003 Posted on Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 5:14 am:    I've seen threads here talking about Mozilla Firefox so after one last frustrating IE freeze I downloaded it. Wow! What a difference! Thanks for the tip. jazzyvee Senior Member Username: jazzyvee Post Number: 1145 Registered: 6-2002 Posted on Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 5:32 am:    Safari is very good too. I use that mostly. There is also a version for Windows users. Jazzyvee dnburgess Senior Member Username: dnburgess Post Number: 542 Registered: 1-2003 Posted on Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 12:30 pm:    I find Safari feels a little snappier than Firefox on my iMacs - but there are a couple of sites that I use regularly that have some glitches under Safari but work perfectly in Firefox. hankster Intermediate Member Username: hankster Post Number: 168 Registered: 6-2004 Posted on Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 1:46 pm:    David, exactly right - Safari is generally faster with an iMac, but Firefox is compatible with some commercial websites with which Safari has problems. For Mac users, either are superior to the version of Explorer available for the Mac platform. Rick jazzyvee Senior Member Username: jazzyvee Post Number: 1148 Registered: 6-2002 Posted on Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 4:10 pm:    I'm sure I heard on the Mac OS Ken podcast that IE is not being updated for the mac anymore. Which is why I started using Safari and Firefox Jazzyvee bracheen Senior Member Username: bracheen Post Number: 1340 Registered: 11-2003 Posted on Monday, March 31, 2008 - 5:15 am:    I use Windows XP and have been having problems with IE on a regular basis. After Jazzy's post I also downloaded Safari. I like the look of it but overall Firefox gets my vote. kungfusheriff Senior Member Username: kungfusheriff Post Number: 666 Registered: 8-2003 Posted on Monday, March 31, 2008 - 8:13 am:    I stopped using IE three years ago, after it allowed malignant viruses into my PC that forced me to rebuild my Win XP system from scratch three times in one week. No problems to speak of after I downloaded Firefox, even while my wife is using the machine. ;) mica Moderator Username: mica Post Number: 5248 Registered: 6-2000 Posted on Wednesday, April 02, 2008 - 10:51 am:    I used Opera for a while it's quite nice as well, but I'm all Firefoxed here. I suppose I should test the website in something other than Firefox. bsee Senior Member Username: bsee Post Number: 1934 Registered: 3-2004 Posted on Wednesday, April 02, 2008 - 11:06 am:    I've been using Firefox as a primary for ages, but I keep IE installed and at the ready for the various websites that require it. I haven't tried Safari yet, but installed it a few days ago because I was tired of the Apple updater harassing me about not having it installed at the latest version. I may give it a spin, but it will be a tough sell to replace Firefox as my primary browser. As a web developer, it's important to have a few browsers available for testing. The larger the site audience, the more options we test. When I was running the website at Switchboard.com, we studied our logs and used general internet resources to identify all browser types and revisions that made up 1% or more of the traffic for testing. Of course, the internet was our business. It would have really hurt if we dropped 5% of our traffic because we put up something that broke a particular browser. I don't think Alembic's business would take the same hit from such an error. -bob byoung Senior Member Username: byoung Post Number: 1006 Registered: 12-2004 Posted on Thursday, April 03, 2008 - 10:46 am:    I fell in love with firefox many moons ago, and continue to love it because of the many extensions. I have a greasemonkey script which killfiles certain users whose postings have a tendency to cause a rise in the blood pressure. This is a great capability-- it allows me to browse the web the way I choose. Bradley glocke Advanced Member Username: glocke Post Number: 351 Registered: 9-2002 Posted on Thursday, April 03, 2008 - 10:49 am:    IE blows...Firefox is pretty good. safari is awesome. paulman Advanced Member Username: paulman Post Number: 290 Registered: 2-2005 Posted on Thursday, April 03, 2008 - 11:38 am:    Thumbs up on Firefox. Downloaded it last night! I love the cleaner interface, seems more utilitarian. olieoliver Senior Member Username: olieoliver Post Number: 1822 Registered: 2-2006 Posted on Thursday, April 03, 2008 - 11:51 am:    I use all 3. I really don't have many problems with IE, I don't have any problems with Safari or Firefox. I use Safari at home home on my Mac and IE at work. I very seldom use firefox. davehouck Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 6424 Registered: 5-2002 Posted on Saturday, April 05, 2008 - 9:35 am:    Well, I installed Firefox yesterday, spent considerable time downloading and trying various add-ons to get it set up the way I work; not there yet. Of the sites I've been on, our board seems to be the one with the most problems. I'm getting lots of time outs. But then maybe there's something wrong with the Alembic servers today.