Poll: Safari, Firefox or Chrome

Which browser do you use on your Mac?

  • Safari

    Votes: 46 40.0%

  • Firefox

    Votes: 32 27.8%

  • Chrome

    Votes: 45 39.1%

  • Opera

    Votes: 6 5.2%

  • Other (specify)

    Votes: 4 3.5%
  • Total voters
    115
I always used Firefox on my Mac Pro but I've not even installed it on the iMac, I almost exclusively use Chrome now. Occasionally I'll use Safari if something doesn't look right in Chrome but it doesn't happen very often.
 
I use Safari as it syncs my bookmarks and i generally like the GUI more.

Used to use webkit nightly builds a lot though.
 
Up until OSX 10.7.2 being released I would have said Chrome but now I'm reverting back to Safari as a lot of its issues have been fixed in this release.
 
Chrome on my MBP, despite using mostly Firefox on my Windows PC. It annoys me that the tabs aren't in the titlebar on Firefox for Mac. Wastes vertical space compared to Chrome, which is quite important when the screen is only 800px high.

Chrome is much faster too. I think I'm only still using Firefox on my desktop out of force of habit. Makes it easier to break the habit when you're using a different OS anyway...
 
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I'm using chrome now on os x, windows and linux, I'll only use FF when I need a plugin for development. It just started to feel slow and bloated after chrome came out. Also those almost daily updates and the forced checking of plugins was sooooo annoying, chrome just starts up and works.
 
Lion broke the gestures on firefox which was annoying. So I gave Safari a go and got into full screen apps again so its now all I use :)
 
nikeair94 said:
Come on the Chrome fanboys, lets own this poll!
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Chrome back arrow still broken (known fault with Lion) so can't really get my vote. Safari will never win anything until it starts putting bookmarks in a sidebar instead of taking up a full screen tab. That only leaves FF which works very well on my iMac - noSquint is just the best thing ever.
 
Firefox ... it's fine 99.9% of the time but really ******* irritating when it's acting up. I have this thing with it where it will occasionally, randomly, reverts to a spinning beach-ball when doing something complicated ... like saving a small file to the desktop :rolleyes:. Then only thing I can do is force quit it (assuming it hasn't hung the system completely meaning I have to power cycle).

(Same under Lion and Snow Leopard, no other symptoms any wider ranging issues)
 
Cheeky bump. Chrome. Just find it handy with the gmail integration, app store and it's what I used on my laptop for ages before I got my Mac so I'm used to it.

They just did a handy update that restores the page back/forward swipes that went missing when Lion was released. One finger swipe with the mouse, two with the trackpad. Brings up a nice graphic arrow thingy which you have to pull past a certain point to activate (avoids changing pages by accident).
 
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