On Nov 26, 2005, at 12:47 PM, LN wrote:
I notice that most of you seem to use more than one browser for
internet purposes. Can
you tell me which you use and why?
Firefox: my main browser, use it out of habit, mostly, since I've
been using Mozilla in one form or another since Version 0.6.
Safari: Use occasionally, FF has problems printing some pages, I also
use it to test things to make sure they work with Safari. There's
nothing wrong with Safari, I've just never gotten into the habit of
using it.
Mozilla, Netscape: I support users with these, and the menus are all
slightly different.
IE: When I absolutely have to I grit my teeth and fire it up. Given
that the Mac version of IE is long, long obsolete, more often than
not, if I need to do something in IE, I use Microsoft Remote Desktop
and use it on one of our server PCs in the office. That said, most of
my interaction with IE is telling people "Don't use it, it's crap."
and scouring spyware out of PC users' systems.
If I run into a site that claims it only runs on IE, more often than
not, I can just change the user agent string and get in with Safari.
(You need to enable the debug menu for that. <http://tinyurl.com/7ld9>)
One really useful tool I've found is PDF Plugin, which lets you open
PDF files within the browser, (which support Adobe dropped for a
couple of versions) at <http://www.schubert-it.com/pluginpdf/> Free
for personal or academic use. I like it better than Adobe's browser
plugin, and if there's a feature (some forms features and stuff like
that) that isn't supported by the plugin, you click on the gear menu
and re-open the page in Acrobat Reader. This works in all OSX
browsers *except* IE.
Oh did I say "Don't use IE, it's crap"? :-)
--
Bruce Johnson
"No matter where you go, there you are", B. Banzai
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