Apple Mac - Safari vs Firefox

Safari is a fast, very simple and elegant web browser. In fact browsing the internet on the mac has been somewhat a pleasurable experience compared to the pc. Little cosmetic things here and there.

That was until I started to fill in some applications on line. It's foreign language support for changing on the go seemed broken and some sites just plain refused to run on Safari. It just blew my mind that the only thing useful about this browser was just browsing big news sites and apple trailers.

The internet offers far more than just browsing and access to online services seems to be a problem. Even certain email websites just seem to take forever to load or even refuse to work. I guess that's why there is such a need for Parallels.

Determined to persevere, I installed Firefox 3. This looked similar to Safari, but I missed the feature where the window size adjusted accordingly to the website. Firefox was fast, but very PC in nature. Lots of add ons and themes. Nothing Mac like about it except the theme.

All websites that had problems with started to just work. However, some websites just look plain broken, and all over the place, where as in Safari, they were rendered great. I'm pretty sure it's an addon problem, though I haven't encountered any such problem on the PC version of Firefox.

I've come to realize that it's the Mac Way or the Highway. Safari for browsing and Firefox for online services. If only Safari was supported more by business websites. It is so elegant with some nice cosmetic touches.