I’m searching and need your help! What Internet browser do you use? I’m not happy again. Yesterday I discovered Safari, which I’m currently using, will not display some videos I want to watch. (Even the one with Andy Stanley I placed on my personal blog yesterday.) I have to occasionally open another browser to view certain things. It’s updated and today I made sure all my plug-ins are updated. Still, no success.
I’ve tried Firefox and Google Chrome, with similar quirks in each of them that caused me to look elsewhere.
So you can help me, I’m a Mac guy. What do you use or what would you suggest I try next? Is there one that may not be a big name, but I may be missing? I have AtomicWeb on my iPad and love it so far, but not sure it’s the answer for my MacBook Pro.
Seriously, please help.
There are a lot more cool browsers at http://www.multibrowsers.com
I would suggest Safari it is really fast like Google Chrome and I hate that one now cause it keeps crashing for me when I load like 200 poems and 5023 chatango accounts so I suggest to use the one that never crashes which I am trying to figure out which one that is
Thanks Trista.
I'm a Chrome guy! It seems to work for most of what I'm trying to do.
Blessings,
Dave
Thanks Dave!
I use Mac at home and the church has a PC … and I use Chrome on both. Have tried Firefox, but it's speed is inconsistent, although some pages (particularly our church webpage) seems to function better in Firefox. But Chrome is my standard on both PC and Mac.
Thanks Steve
Ron,
I work with computers more than I'd like to and I'm also a mac guy. I use Safari, and when that doesn't do what I need, I revert to Firefox. I like Safari because it's snappy. If you're having problems with video playback, may I suggest a couple things?
Flip4Mac (a syspref panel) allows you to play WMV files (Windows video files) in Quicktime. That may resolve your issue.
(http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/flip4macwindowsmediacomponentsforquicktime.html)
Perian is the other tool that I use (another syspref panel)
(http://perian.org/)
If you install those, it'll likely fix your problems.
That's awesome Eddy. Thanks. I'll try that.
You the man. That fixed it. I'm still curious now about these others people are trying, but I love that my Safari problem was fixed! Thanks
Eddy, I have Flip4Mac already installed and I agree it's a great program. Was't aware of Perian. but it's installed now. Thanx for the tip
Unfortunately, Ron, my experience has been that there is no single do-all, best-in-every-way browser. I currently have 4 browsers in my Dock!
That said, the browser I use 95% of the time and the one I'm using now to type this comment is OmniWeb. It has its quirks to be sure – they all do! – but I think its strengths outweigh its quirks. And that's the secret – being happy enough with the strengths to overlook the quirks.
Anywho, go check out OmniWeb and see if you like it:
http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omniweb/downloa…
– Jeff
Wow. A new option. Thanks. Love it.
OK… perhaps there are a couple of other reasons 🙂
Ha!
Sad you had trouble with G-chrome. I love it.
Good luck in your search and remember to share with all of us!
I'm a huge Firefox fan, but don't know what quirks are bothering you. One you didn't mention was "Opera", which I've heard plugged by some Mac people (haven't used it much myself). As one commenter said, anything but IE 🙂
Now, I do agree with that! Thanks!
Knew there was a reason I liked you… I'm a Mac guy as well. I pretty much agree with what's been said above; anything but IE. I primarily use Safari or FireFox. This typically gets done what I need to get done. I do have to run Windows at work so I run it on top of my Mac in a Virtual machine, but even then if I can get away with FireFox I use it. My kids, who are still using Windows, go more for Chrome. I've heard a lot of good things about it, but haven't taken the time to seriously investigate it.
When I HAVE to use IE, I do… and that probably summarizes my dislike about IE… that there are some things that I HAVE to do in IE. Browsers should be programs that follow HTML standards and use other standard protocols so that pretty much any browser should display anything. Microsoft often heads out their own way and creates non-standard protocols that only work under IE. And that wouldn't be so bad if IE could successfully be uninstalled and reinstalled if it breaks, but since MS binds it to Windows that's almost an impossibility. Apple has taken a stance on the iPad and iPhone against Flash, but that's in favor of a new emerging HTML standard.
Now Jon, surely there are a dozen other reasons…:)
Thanks for your suggestions.
I keep coming back to Firefox. Every time something new comes out, or a browser updates, I give it a try but end up drifting back to Firefox. You can't beat the wealth of plug-ins available.
Thanks Chris!
Like mhick255 I have found the need to have all available. I find safari and chrome to be the fastest and usually the easiest to "fix" if something comes up, however that MAY be because I'm on Win 7 –
I know you said you're a mac guy, but that's one thing I like about Win 7 – it almost always detects the specific browser error I have and tells me exactly what to do to fix it – don't know if that's part of the problem or not jus sayin 🙂 I was able to watch the video fine as well – I wonder – is mhick255 on Mac or Win 7?
Thanks Kevin
I still dig Chrome… they are always fixing bugs almost as fast as I find them…
Thanks Marc!
I'm afraid the answer is…it depends. Or "anything other than Internet Explorer." I'm using Safari right now, but regularly switch back and forth between Safari and Firefox. As each one rolls out a new version, I will switch, since the newest versions tend to be faster than older versions of other browsers. I also use Fluid (http://fluidapp.com/) to create Site Specific Browsers (SSBs) for sites that I use often, like Google Docs.
BTW, on Safari, I was able to view your video from yesterday just fine. Do you have Flash installed in Safari? Or perhaps a plug-in that's blocking Flash videos, like BashFlash?
Thanks. Should have said I'm not a techie, but I did make sure the main plugins were updated. I'll look further.
chrome all the way. its simplicity is what does it for me. plus seems a load quicker that most others I've tried.
Thanks!