we ran firefox for several years without incident on our shop G5 and MacPro Towers, but we never used extensions other than a plugin for listening to rhapsody streams.:) perhaps out lack of extension use was the difference.
I use Adblock Plus, Foxmarks and an ImageShack extension (plus a few themes) on Firefox on my Mac, and rarely, if ever, have problems. Certainly less than I did with Safari, and I used to absolutely love Safari.
There's no doubt that extensions can slow FF down (especially starting FF), but everytime I use something other than FF, I miss the extensions I use everyday.
I like Firefox a lot but I have to say that the way it looks and feels on a Mac makes me wish to use some other browser. Its font rendering (and particularly any Cyrillic fonts) is awful. Other Gecko-based browsers - Camino and Flock - are much better in that area, although still not perfect.
I use OmniWeb and Flock most of the time.
I used to enjoy Opera on a windows box, but have never used it on a Mac. Some sites were simply not Opera friendly (e.g. Rhapsody), so I end up going back to Firefox. But I would summize Opera is a more pleasant experience on a Mac than Safari for many things?
ABP, Coralize, CustomizeGoogle, Deepest Sender (LJ client), DOM Inspector, ForecastFox, FoxyProxy(disabled), Google Gears (do I really need this?), Greasemonkey, Remove It Peramently (which can probably be removed too), Tabbrowser Preferences (livesaver), and Talkback. Some I think could be abstracted out are Bookmark Dupe Checker and Bookmarks LinkCheck, even though I use these in manual resyncing bookmarks. Only if there was a good "Put my bookmarks here, keeping how they've been organized."
You know, I've heard all these grumblings about Safari on MacBreak Weekly and other places, but my personal experience has been quite good, overall. I find Safari to be more stable than Firefox. The integration with Keychains and .Mac Sync services, allows me to have my Safari bookmarks on all my Macs & iPhone; without any hoop jumping. Speed? I think FF may be a bit faster. Ultimately, though, I find Camino to be a great solution and I use it quite a bit--especially with GMail and other Web2.0 sites that require FF to operate properly. Camino seems quicker than FF, integrates with Keychain and in my opinion, looks better that FF on Mac. The only downside to Camino is that sites with browser detection tend to not recognize Camino as a Mozilla browser. Still, for most day-to-day operations, banking, etc, I prefer Safari.
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what incident(s) or what implored opinion put you back on firefox? or was it a cause of accumulated safari mishaps? :)
2 years, 3 months ago by maximmuir
we ran firefox for several years without incident on our shop G5 and MacPro Towers, but we never used extensions other than a plugin for listening to rhapsody streams.:) perhaps out lack of extension use was the difference.
2 years, 3 months ago by maximmuir
Leo, why are leaving Flock?
2 years, 3 months ago by encision
The downside of that is the lack of synchronization with your iPhone.
2 years, 3 months ago by merlyn
I use Adblock Plus, Foxmarks and an ImageShack extension (plus a few themes) on Firefox on my Mac, and rarely, if ever, have problems. Certainly less than I did with Safari, and I used to absolutely love Safari.
2 years, 3 months ago by ClunkClunk
There's no doubt that extensions can slow FF down (especially starting FF), but everytime I use something other than FF, I miss the extensions I use everyday.
2 years, 3 months ago by smurph
I like Firefox a lot but I have to say that the way it looks and feels on a Mac makes me wish to use some other browser. Its font rendering (and particularly any Cyrillic fonts) is awful. Other Gecko-based browsers - Camino and Flock - are much better in that area, although still not perfect. I use OmniWeb and Flock most of the time.
2 years, 3 months ago by skolobov
I used to enjoy Opera on a windows box, but have never used it on a Mac. Some sites were simply not Opera friendly (e.g. Rhapsody), so I end up going back to Firefox. But I would summize Opera is a more pleasant experience on a Mac than Safari for many things?
2 years, 3 months ago by maximmuir
Use Bookit to keep your Firefox bookmarks in sync with Safari so that you have a copy on your iPhone
2 years, 3 months ago by JNathan
I'm using ABP, colortabs, greasemonkey, smart digg, map this, forecastfox, and have never had a problem on my MBP.
2 years, 3 months ago by shoutstudios
ABP, Coralize, CustomizeGoogle, Deepest Sender (LJ client), DOM Inspector, ForecastFox, FoxyProxy(disabled), Google Gears (do I really need this?), Greasemonkey, Remove It Peramently (which can probably be removed too), Tabbrowser Preferences (livesaver), and Talkback. Some I think could be abstracted out are Bookmark Dupe Checker and Bookmarks LinkCheck, even though I use these in manual resyncing bookmarks. Only if there was a good "Put my bookmarks here, keeping how they've been organized."
2 years, 3 months ago by strredwolf
adblock plus is essential, everything else is useless.
2 years, 3 months ago by danhendricks
You know, I've heard all these grumblings about Safari on MacBreak Weekly and other places, but my personal experience has been quite good, overall. I find Safari to be more stable than Firefox. The integration with Keychains and .Mac Sync services, allows me to have my Safari bookmarks on all my Macs & iPhone; without any hoop jumping. Speed? I think FF may be a bit faster. Ultimately, though, I find Camino to be a great solution and I use it quite a bit--especially with GMail and other Web2.0 sites that require FF to operate properly. Camino seems quicker than FF, integrates with Keychain and in my opinion, looks better that FF on Mac. The only downside to Camino is that sites with browser detection tend to not recognize Camino as a Mozilla browser. Still, for most day-to-day operations, banking, etc, I prefer Safari.
2 years, 3 months ago by psimac
And the del.icio.us Firefox extension is quite useful!
2 years, 3 months ago by kenjones
i LOVE the foxmarks extension...
2 years, 3 months ago by mcconnell