(Another) Trial at Other Browsers
Every once in a while I get a feeling like I should try one of the other browsers available in OS X. I tried Safari for a while and then OmniWeb. (Which just recently became freeware.)
I have no idea why I try every year because I really just waste a lot of time trying to move bookmarks, find equivalent functionality in the new browser, and just generally try to make the browser I’m trying into Firefox. When you run Safari, you just feel like you’re using a browser circa 1998. Omnibrowser was a little better but just not familiar enough to keep. While I was experimenting Safari 4 came into Beta. It’s pretty (I love the “Speed Dial”/CoverFlow knock-off.) but it doesn’t do anything spectacular. I can still see where it’s useful for beginners but I’m, I suppose, a “power user”; I have 30+ RSS feeds I keep track of, I have dozens of bookmarks and they’re stored on a social bookmarking site, (Delicious) and I occasionally edit a website, so having a lot of dev tools available is helpful.
All that said, Firefox just seems like a more solid browser; it works exactly the way I would think a browser should. Every once in a while, I see a new feature on one of the other browsers but the thing is that within 2 or 3 months, it is easily mimiced. I’m pretty well convinced at this point that Firefox will be my browser from now on.