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Firefox advantages?
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Join Date: Feb 2004
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OK. I've downloaded Firefox and played around with it a bit. So far though, i can't see any meaningful advantages over Safari. Could the people who've decided they prefer it tell me why?
Oh yeah, how on earth do you import your Safai Bookmarks? The "import" command in bookmark manager doesn't seem to do a thing with my bookmarks.plist.
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it has extensions support..
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Development goes a lot faster (or at least more consistently), it allows for multiple search engines (such as dictionary.com, which is actually built into the address bar) and with Adblock I can selectively block anything I want — plus much more configurable Javascript support.
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Do a search. There was a huge thread about Firefox vs. other browsers not that long ago.
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The number of extensions available for Firefox far outnumbers anything I've been able to find for Safari. As such, it is much more customizable in terms of appearance, functions, and surfing tools.
That's my reason, anyway. There are functions and features I've gotten used to in Firefox which I was unable to replicate in Safari. Same goes for Camino, IMO.
(Last edited by USNA91; Dec 20, 2004 at 09:11 AM.
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Significantly better extensibility, and somewhat better standards support. It's also faster on many Macs, though not on all of them, and no one's sure why it's not consistent one way or the other. It also uses CSS-stylable widgets, rather than the inflexible Aqua. Some zealots will count this as a disadvantage, though this ignores the reality of the Web as a mutable, redesignable medium.
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Safari Bookmark Exporter is available and does the job of importing your Safari bookmarks into Firefox.
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I prefer FF over explorer (naturally) when I'm forced to use Windows (must find new job!), but still like Safari on the Mac side.
Fox does have its pluses, but Safari 2.0 sounds like it'll really be a winner.
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personally I don't find it better than safari in any way, merely just a little different if you like to fiddle. I also prefer camino to ff, and am just looking into omniweb for a while. I think its just horses for courses...
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I prefer Camino. Especially now when I'm home for christmas and using my parents dial-up to get online. Camino is just so damn faster than all the other alternatives..
But we were discussing Firefox, right? I'd say extensions (like Adblock, Sage, BBCode) and the speed of Gecko makes it better than Safari.
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