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For a long time i was loving Safari, but after trying Firefox RC2 i think im going to switch over.

Anyone else made the jump from Safari?

One thing i find myself doing is using Safari to hold all my bookmarks, then importing them to Firefox. I did the same thing when i was a pc user. Saved faves in IE then imported. Is there a better way of doing it? Id love some sort of online bookmark storage, any suggestions?
 
Yeh I have switched, always use Firefox on windows but it was not very good on mac. But now with the new RC1 its so much better than safari, although I use a safari theme as the normal Firefox one is not very nice at all :).
 
I switched, but I may go back again :o

Safari is like lightning for me anyway..
 
Aspect said:
Is there any way to have all my bookmarks online, so I can access them from any browser?
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If you use Foxmarks, I think you can login and browse your profile. Else exporting your bookmarks and hosting them yourself would be another option.
 
gumbald said:
If you use Foxmarks, I think you can login and browse your profile. Else exporting your bookmarks and hosting them yourself would be another option.
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Using Foxmarks now, really nice app. Im also loving TwitterFox, its as good if not better than most OSX twitter apps ive used.
 
Hmm I went from Firefox to Safari.

I don't use any particular additional functionality other than just browsing and google. So I've no real need for another browser and safari seems quick.
 
I actually made the switch today, always been a Firefox user on my PC but hadn't had a problem with Safari on my MBP until I upgraded to 10.5.3 - now It's forever loading half the page needing a refresh to load the rest :mad:

Was using FF 2.0 but have just this second ditched it for 3.0, looks a little dodgy using stock settings but I'm sure with a little bit of playing about I'll make it look nicer.
 
I have really tried to get to grips with firefox but alas it just loads up too bloody damn slow for me on first boot. If I select Safari, it loads up at the click of a finger, with Firefox it takes ages to load in.

Anyone have this problem too? I guess I am an impatient sod.
 
I generally use Safari, it's a lot quicker (in load times) and some of its integration with other things is nice.

Before getting a Mac almost 2 years ago now (wow!) I was a pure Firefox user on Windows from very early on. Although that allowed you to see the sheer drop in performance once it got higher into 1.x.x.

I have Firefox 3 RC2 and it's incredibly good, but I think i'm going to stick with Safari just because it's simple and does what I need :)
 
Johnz0r said:
I have really tried to get to grips with firefox but alas it just loads up too bloody damn slow for me on first boot. If I select Safari, it loads up at the click of a finger, with Firefox it takes ages to load in.

Anyone have this problem too? I guess I am an impatient sod.
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I thought it was just me. That's the only problem i have with it.
 
Johnz0r said:
I have really tried to get to grips with firefox but alas it just loads up too bloody damn slow for me on first boot. If I select Safari, it loads up at the click of a finger, with Firefox it takes ages to load in.

Anyone have this problem too? I guess I am an impatient sod.
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Yeah I've found that it's not as quick loading up for the first time as Safari as well, however it aint that big a deal for me

I do actually have a question kinda in relation to this topic, since I've using Firefox (and removed Safari from the dock) now everytime my MBP boots up Safari starts! Still being somewhat of a Mac noob I have no idea where you select what applications start on startup or whether it's a different setting buried away somewhere. Anyone got any ideas?
 
Tom84 said:
Yeah I've found that it's not as quick loading up for the first time as Safari as well, however it aint that big a deal for me

I do actually have a question kinda in relation to this topic, since I've using Firefox (and removed Safari from the dock) now everytime my MBP boots up Safari starts! Still being somewhat of a Mac noob I have no idea where you select what applications start on startup or whether it's a different setting buried away somewhere. Anyone got any ideas?
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Look in System Preferences > Accounts > Login Items

Hope that helps.
 
Aspect said:
Is there any way to have all my bookmarks online, so I can access them from any browser?
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you could use del.icio.us and the browser plugin. Personally, I use ma.gnolia and the social bookmarks plugin for quicksilver so I can get them from anywhere.
 
just been playing with new firefox 3 versions... anyone else notice the fonts are a bit funny looking on these forums for example? In osx preferences I have font-smoothing set to medium (for flat panel). All settings within firefox are as they were by default. Some sites including this forum appear to have bigger/bolder fonts instead of the usual finer fonts that safari/camino/opera show. All settings are default in all my browsers. The only settings changed are the ones I mentioned about osx preferences. Apart from this I really like the new FF a lot but at the end of the day a browser is a browser.
 
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