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zookey

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From: Great Falls, Montana, USA
Registered: 04-28-2002
I just downloaded Safari web browser from Apple---it is pretty wicked with a brushed-metal look--so far the only thing I don't like is that I don't have the 3D rotating cube tab-transition that Arch posted for FireFox a while back---but other than that I have to say I like it alot

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Mene-Mene

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From: Fort Wayne, IN, USA
Registered: 10-23-2006
I'm using it now, and I'm very Impressed. I love Apple's products. Not sure if it will beat Firefox though, those themes are pretty cool, though the only one I really used was the apple, lol.

Great Find!

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zookey

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yeah I haven't switched themes yet either---the brushed metal is pretty cool

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kenman

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From: Janesville WI
Registered: 08-31-2006
Wow, I can't get it to browse more than 2 sites without crashing . .

Obviously in beta phase for a reason. . .

ArchAngel

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From: SV, CA, USA
Registered: 01-29-2002
the tech industry has been bashing it.

and frankly. I agree. I freed myself of iTunes as of late and am happy.
I honestly can't stand apple. Very monopolistic minded. You always need their products for their stuff. iPods for iTunes. Macs for Mac OS's.
I got rid of iTunes for that reason. I didn't want to pay for an overpriced mp3 player so I switched to WMP, not a great choice, but I can choose through a bunch of mp3 players.
that and the mac look, with the exception of iTunes, really gets under my skin. almost like a perverted Unix/Linux. I think it's out of place for a browser to look like iTunes.

that and Firefox will always have my heart.
that and it doesn't crash all the time.
has extensions for all the Safari features and more.
etc.

Firefox3 beta, I'm told, is far more stable than Safari.
sure Safari maybe faster. for now.
but it can be tuned. Especially now it has a good reason to.

so I link to you this:
enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euZ0j7vtKEQ

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bwoogie

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my firefox keeps screwing up and i have no idea why. randomly if i click on a link it will just say stopped in the status bar.

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zookey

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From: Great Falls, Montana, USA
Registered: 04-28-2002
quote:
Originally posted by kenman:
Wow, I can't get it to browse more than 2 sites without crashing . .

Obviously in beta phase for a reason. . .


huh. What OS are you runnin'? I am on XP pro and I had 10 different tabs running in Safari with no problem (looking up random info for our trip coming up)---but I guess that is the nature of bugs--they like to hide until inconvienient times hehe.

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Mene-Mene

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Registered: 10-23-2006
I also have Win XP, and has like 12 the other day looking for Screen savers, didn't seen any other themes. I like Mac, its not best on Windows, but its designed for something, Windows is so open, its bad. I mean, its specialized, its limiting, but its best in what it does, Mac Computers.

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zookey

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From: Great Falls, Montana, USA
Registered: 04-28-2002
yeah, although from what I heard newer Macs outdo Vista--especially the current Mac OSX and the next one called Leopard--I know the next PC I am gtting will be a mac.

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kenman

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From: Janesville WI
Registered: 08-31-2006
quote:
Originally posted by zookey:
huh. What OS are you runnin'? I am on XP pro and I had 10 different tabs running in Safari with no problem (looking up random info for our trip coming up)---but I guess that is the nature of bugs--they like to hide until inconvienient times hehe.


HMM....
XP Pro, Athalon 3500+, 2 GB ram, Radeon all in wonder card, Sound Blaster Audigy. It probably doesn't like my set up. I didn't even try tabs, it keeps crashing from the get out. It is a bug in how it likes sites. I found that the sites that cause it to crash are using larger .js components to run things. Still java applets have been around longer than holes in swiss cheese.

Cohort X

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From: The Great Pacific Northwest
Registered: 09-16-2006
You'll have to excuse them. Apple is still grappling with the concept of all hardware not coming from the same company.
TallBill

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Registered: 11-22-2002
I'm posting from a Mac. I love my Mac...
but I browse with SeaMonkey.

After that comes FireFox.

MAYBE after that comes Safari. ;-)

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steveth45

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From: Eugene, OR, USA
Registered: 08-10-2005
Thanks, Apple, for porting a Linux/Unix original (KHtml) to OS X, calling it Safari, bragging how you have the fastest* browser in the world and then porting it to Windows, to impress people with how awesome Apple is, in the vain hope of making a few more hardware sales.

*KHtml was already faster before Apple got their dirty paws on it.

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Mene-Mene

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From: Fort Wayne, IN, USA
Registered: 10-23-2006
That's pretty what Microsoft did, took someone else's Ideas, bought them, and sold them.

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ArchAngel

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they were just a whole lot better at it.

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goop2

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I wouldn't confuse 'more successful' with 'better.' Mac OS is far better than any of its copies in my opinion.

I was looking at Apples website recently and noticed this, but when I tried it, it said it only works if you have service pack 2. I thought windows was bad enough without it, and it screwed my computer last time I installed it. Oh well.

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ArchAngel

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No. windows is better because of one reasons. It runs more program.
An OS that doesn't run anything is worthless and an OS that runs very little is bad.
Microsoft was smart enough to open it up for tons of developers instead of keeping a greedy fist over everything.

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goop2

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That really doesn't make it better at all. More desirable for some people maybe, but by no means better. Besides, any programs you would want for music are mainly based on Mac. (ProTools for instance)

What runs on something, or how many people use it has no effect on the thing itself, for instance; I could buy a Beetle and rice the crap out of it, but does that make it better than a Viper?

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ArchAngel

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that's great. but I don't do music dev. I do software dev and I game. guess what, Windows has want I want and need. I seem to get by just fine with music. Players are abundant and I have plenty of sound editors.

sure the "windows" car breaks down, especially if you don't maintain it, but atleast it runs on most the roads. The "mac" car may run better, but it only uses 2% of the roads; roads I really don't need to use.

and yes, people have tuned cars to be better than Vipers.
Vipers have terrible handling, anyways....

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goop2

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maybe a better example would be a 2008 Camaro then? The point being, what something works with doesn't make it better. Besides, many programs do run on Mac, and they run better than on windows.

All I'm trying to say is that it isn't what program the system works with, its mainly how the system uses that program, and how well it maintains itself.

ArchAngel

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yes, but this is an operating system.
if doesn't operate stuff, it's not doing it's job, eh?

If a road can't be driven on, why have it?

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Cohort X

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That's the bike lane. It's for bikes only.

ArchAngel

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I drive on that, too.

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CPUFreak91

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Ho hum. They didn't have anything else to excite people with at the conference so the quickly released a beta to cause a fuss.

quote:
Originally posted by TallBill:
I'm posting from a Mac. I love my Mac...
but I [b]browse
with SeaMonkey.

After that comes FireFox.

MAYBE after that comes Safari. ;-)

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I use Shiira on OSX. It's open source and it's KHTML engine hasn't been dirtied by Apple. On Linux I use Konqueror. The original KHTML browser .

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