martin1976 Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 What say you? Hey Mash, how about a poll? Do you think you can add it to this forum? Safari supports Windows Media if you install Flip4Mac It doesn't work on Hackingtosh... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John the Geek Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 It doesn't work on Hackingtosh... It can with PopWire WMV component, It's free as a player plug-in, but costs money to export to other formats. I own a license, and it's awesome. Flip-4-Mac is nice as a free player for PPC Macs, but since it doesn't work on my MBP it's useless for the time being. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin1976 Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 It can with PopWire WMV component, It's free as a player plug-in, but costs money to export to other formats. I own a license, and it's awesome. Flip-4-Mac is nice as a free player for PPC Macs, but since it doesn't work on my MBP it's useless for the time being. So you are saying that at least you can watch the videos from, for example, yahoo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John the Geek Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 So you are saying that at least you can watch the videos from, for example, yahoo? depends.... if it does a player check, then no. But send me a link and I'll try it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin1976 Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 depends.... if it does a player check, then no. But send me a link and I'll try it out. Here try to watch any video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John the Geek Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 Here try to watch any video. ERROR We regret that Yahoo! Music videos are not currently supported for Macintosh. We are exploring ways to offer video on additional platforms, and hope you'll check back as we make enhancements to the service. For more information on Yahoo! Music Video system requirements, visit to the Music Video section of Yahoo! Music Help. Please use the following error code when writing to Yahoo! Help. (Error Code: 4) Sounds like NO player on a Mac will work with those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 but firefox has one drawback and so far IE is the only browser that does this right: tabbing through html forms that contain select and checkbox/radiobutton elements only works properly in IE. Firefox, Safari both skip over dropdowns and checkboxes. Try logging into gmail and tab to the "remember me" checkbox. only works in IE. try entering your address with a province/state dropdown and a country dropdown. only works in IE. You have to manually click on the item in the other browsers. Dude, IE is the only one which is _not_ working correctly. Open "System Preferences" > "Keyboard and Mouse" > "Keyboard Shortcuts" and select "All controls" down the bottom. No, I don't know why OS X has the dumb option selected by default Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 I hate Firefox for Mac, but it's the only way for one site to work, so I'm forced to use it for that one site. Everything else, I use Opera. Plus, Opera has IRC built in instead of having to install something to enable it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark. Posted August 13, 2006 Share Posted August 13, 2006 I like Shiira the most Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogabean Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 I'm gonna chime in and say personally I prefer Safari to all other browsers. If only for it's sheer simplicity. I'm also partial to the brushed metal look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin1976 Posted August 22, 2006 Share Posted August 22, 2006 Hey, is there a way to "retrieve" the temporary files in Firefox? By retreive I mean, for example, when you go to a ringtone website and listen to the sample, where is that file stored? (Yeah, I know, but it's free...lol). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtraa Posted August 22, 2006 Share Posted August 22, 2006 Stunning results - Safari definitely looks better, there is a huge difference: Browser screenshot Firefox: http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/7831/firefoxnb2.jpg Screenshot result Safari: http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/4973/safarico2.jpg What do you say... I can't help myself, but the image quality in Safari is superb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobNyc Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 GOod one xtraa.. I agree I can't live with netscape browsers. All these freakin plugins issues. Safari makes life mmm better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vandetta Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 I love to use Safari but when saving website, it could not be open in Windows, so quite problem for me to send saved website to my friend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sev7en Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 Stunning results - Safari definitely looks better, there is a huge difference: Browser screenshot Firefox: http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/7831/firefoxnb2.jpg Screenshot result Safari: http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/4973/safarico2.jpg What do you say... I can't help myself, but the image quality in Safari is superb. What's sweet match! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rollcage Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 Windows: only thing I ever use is Firefox OSX: Mostly Safari, it seems to work faster on my computer than any of the other browsers that I've tried. I also use Firefox on site that I know Safari won't display correctly. Occasionaly I'll try Shiira and Opera (just to see if they've done anything to make me want to swicth. I tried Camino once, but I'll never use it again. It was like a confused Firefox. It wouldn't load anything that Firefox wouldn't, but it had a crappy theme. At least you can fix the one in Firefox using a theme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K4bren Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 Windows: On the rare occaison, Firefox. Mac: Firefox and Safari. I only use safari sometimes, but it goes back and forth quite a bit. With firefox I love the customizability and the features, in safari, it's clean and simple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moksha Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 WebKit rocks for me. Tons faster than Safari, works great if you don't mind weirdish button rendering on some sites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brewno Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 On Windows and OSX I use Firefox (with iFox Smooth theme) for my main account and Flock for my secondary accounts. Never liked Opera, IE sucks (specially the last one, 7) and Safari is good for RSS, but not for browsing. Maybe next version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidplasmaflow Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 If I could put the Safari engine in the Firefox UI, I would be in heaven Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lane Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 I use Camino mostly because it has most of the Mozilla features I like plus it uses the Gecko renderer. Firefox is a bloated P.O.S. on my G4, even the optimized builds can't help it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genix Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 Right now I'm using Camino with CamiTools. It's really nice. However, Safari is my favorite browser for OSX. The only reason I'm not using Safari is because it is messed up on this installation. When I reinstall I should be back to using Safari with Saft. As far as Windows XP, Opera wins hands down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panda200x Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 I hate opera. Firefox is the best on windows for me and I don't use the internet on my OSx86 box but still Safari I like Camino though it looks sweet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theaerosolkid Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 I use Firefox the most, though I'm liking Camino as well. I don't use Safari much, and I think SeaMonkey's just really...unattractive-looking. Never liked Opera, either. As far as I'm concerened, IE's dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h3h Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 I used Safari for a couple years without any large issues. It's a solid browser. Now that I'm a full-time web developer, though, Firefox is absolutely indispensible. The extensions are by far Firefox's greatest strength and I rely heavily on many of them. Running Firefox on a MacBook Pro has proved much more tolerable -- it's significantly faster. Of course I don't want to use different browsers with different sets of prefs/bookmarks/etc. at home and work, so I use Firefox everywhere now. It has a few very minor bugs and annoyances that I am more than willing to put up with for its excellent platform. I do development testing in WebKit, Opera, and IE 6+7 as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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