Apple Safari
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After using it for a little while tonight, it seems that it renders text a lot better and more clean than Chimera, but at the same time, that’s all lost on certain sites where it tries to detect what browser you are using and serves up a specific css for that browser. Usually it works fine. There is a neat series of Applescript items on apple’s site for Safari, and they do a good range of things. I really have gotten used to tabbed browsing because of Chimera, and sadly, that, along with the poor Flash performance, are my only reasons NOT to use it as my main browser. It does tend to be a little more picky on certain css instances, so it may make you write more compatible and better code. The way it handles bookmarks is very nice, and it starts up damn quick.
One last good/bad thing: Because it has the Flash plugin embedded in it, it doesn't seem to choke when you have multiple browser windows open that are using Flash. With Chimera and IE, they are using the plugin that resides in the system library, and they share it. Safari has its own, so it doesn't suffer...but the Flash playback that it does have is really really really slow...so its a moot point. Just an interesting note.