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I was thinking I’d start a new thread on this blog about some of the things I do on a regular basis to get work done. Lately (like since the release of the new Safari beta), I’ve been trying out different web browsers to find one that really fits. For a long time, I was using Firefox on my Mac and was doing just fine, until I really gave Safari a chance and realized how much FASTER Safari is over Firefox (and how much that really makes a difference for me).

Using Safari was good for some time, though my biggest issues were the plugins (I really need a good ad-blocking program, and SafariBlock seemed buggy and missing some features), and site support. Since many sites are setup to allow only the most popular browsers, certain features weren’t available within Safari. With Apple’s latest version of the browser being released for Windows as well (most likely in a ploy to get more developers on board for the iPhone), this will probably change. But for now, I found Firefox was still a better choice for me over Safari.

I then tried out Camino (which is what I’m using currently). Camino is different from Safari in that it uses the same rendering engine as Firefox (so pages that work in Firefox should also work in Camino), though has a much more MacOS-friendly interface than Firefox (and seems a bit faster). So far, I’ve been very happy with Camino, and I like the built-in ad-blocking feature. One downside, however, is the lack of a Javascript console. Since I do a lot of web development, I’ve come to rely on Firefox’s Javascript console (and the Firebug plugin), so unfortunately, I still need to use Firefox to do this.

Hope you found this useful. I’d like to turn this into a regular thing: discussing what tools I use in my work, why I choose to use that tool, etc.

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