Mac Browsers, again!
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- Atkinson
Firefox is good but tacky. Camino seems more native but lacks a few things, eg, right click on image to get details etc. Safari is great but it lacking in any kind of features. Are there other decent options? Why has nobody mixed those three browsers to make a super browser?!
- studderine0
ive asked myself the same thing...
- rafalski0
You might want to add there is no decent free image browser/viewer for mac and some video files aren't played even with VLC (which usually plays what QT doesn't).
Mounting a video ipod takes about one minute on a macbook (15 sec in windows).Still, mac is known for its native support of all multimedia, isn't it? :)
- Atkinson0
my ipod takes about 10secs on mac. Hmm. Right about the image browser though, iphoto's rubbish!
- rafalski0
4G iPod mounts instantly, both video ones (mine and my gf's) take about a minute. Tried on two macbooks.
I use firefox. I like it better on windows. Can't stand safari's rendering of bold type and bolding of white on black text.
It's funny, I use windows at work and osx at home, everytime I sit at either it's like "oh, it's so much nicer than the other one" :)
- Atkinson0
I really think OSx is nicer but I just wish someone would make a decent browser. Most people use their comp most online, surely there should be a good all in one thing. Or am I talking web3.0, are we not there yet?!!
- blipp0
If VLC fils, try Mplayer. (http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.n... Works like a charm.
- welded0
You could try Shiira or OmniWeb.
http://shiira.jp/en.php
http://www.omnigroup.com/applica…
- NONEIS0
Rafalski, never heard of "PREVIEW"? It's free and robust as image viewers come. Check in your applications folder.
Video ipods that are formatted to work on both PC and Windows take about a minute to load up on a mac, ones formatted for the mac (ones that cannont be plugged into a pc without formatting) will take mere seconds to boot up on a mac. That lag is the price you pay for having it work on boht os's.
- NONEIS0
Oops, I meant ones that are formatted to work on both Windows and OS X.
- rafalski0
I use preview and it sucks - cannot browse, even within a folder unless you open images as a group. I need thumbnail preview and browsing up/down the folders.
Adobe Bridge does it, but comes free only with their other expensive software :|
- Atkinson0
Yeah I have the same problem. I've used Bridge and it's great. Preview's rubbish and Finder isn't great. Picassa is OK although it doesn't hold the real files, just a link, so it gets confusing.
- Jaline0
Preview really pisses me off with its limitations. I'll be looking into finding an alternative, possibly even Adobe Bridge.
Thanks for the info about MPlayer. I may check that out.
As for browsers, FF really hasn't given me any problems. Camino and Safari don't have as many extensions and expandability. FF doesn't look all that bad either.