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So, this is my dock… notice anything unusual. Four different web browsers. I’ve come to the conclusion that I need all four of them because each succeeds in a specific area where the others fail.
Chrome has become my default browser. I use it for most tasks because it’s super quick, it has a nice user interface, and I love that each tab runs as a separate process (I think other browsers do this too, but I’ve only noticed it in Chrome). The only problem with Chrome is that it’s too new. Every time I use it I come across a plugin that isn’t supported or a website that doesn’t recognize it.
Which brings me to FireFox. Everything works with FireFox. With the exception of those weird Microsoft plugins that only work in IE, I’ve yet to find a site or an addon that is incompatible with FireFox. Yes, I’m sure they exist, but it’s probably not something I care about.
Next, I have Camino, which is basically a lite version of FireFox that has been optimized for Mac. The only reason I keep it around it because it handles flash better than any other browser. When I watch live streaming video in Safari, I can’t do anything else on my computer. Open the same site in Camino, and I hardly feel it.
This leaves me with Safari, which actually doesn’t get used a whole lot anymore. I think it has the best UI of the bunch, and it’s very fast, but there really isn’t anything it offers me that I can’t do in Chrome.
