Firefox
You will have heard of Firefox.
Everyone has.
It’s just a browser, but you wouldn’t know from the hype. Now, that’s understandable if you’re on a Windoze (which I’m not) since MS hasn’t updated IE for Windoze in several years. No tabbed browsing, no pop-up blocking, no security. And I’m all too happy to use Open Source software — one of the reasons I’m using WordPress.
But frankly, I’m not sure what the point of Firefox on the Mac is unless you’re willing to deal with something that’s still very close to a Beta. What drives me crazy, for example, is the fact that the Services menu isn’t enabled, which means I don’t have access to my psellcheker. Try Camino instead — also part of the Mozilla family — which has a much more mature feel, or stick to Safari.
What’s cool about Firefox though are the plugins and extensions, which allow you for example to capture pages in all their glory and sort them into folders and search their full text etc. Sweet!
(For a quick overview of OSX browsers, head over to the LowEndMac.)Update, 1/13: One of the things that drives me nuts is Firefox’ tendency to just lose a link when it times out, which is often when you’re on dial-up. How am I supposed to remember all the links I was trying to open simultaneously in all these tabs? Fix this, please please please! It makes it impossible for me to use Firefox as my default browser…
