10 thoughts on “MPU 069: Browser Wars”

1. Bob DeGrande January 18, 2012 at 1:59 am

   Great podcast, this is a really important topic. I go back and forth between desktop browsers nearly as often as I change Twitter clients (currently usually Firefox and Chrome for Flash), but I think there are a couple of good iOS browsers that you didn’t mention. IMO by far the best iOS browser is iCabMobile. It has just about every feature imaginable (one that i rely on a lot is much easier ReadItLater support than Safari), but it also has a QuickStarter page which is similar to Speed Dial on a desktop browser. This is really great on an iPhone/iPad as you can just use one tap to get to your most frequently used sites.

   I don’t think any of the browsers that support Flash do a great job of it (although Skyfire is a pretty good general purpose browser), but of the ones I have used, the one that supports Flash the best is iSwifter, which not only plays Flash videos, but some Flash games as well.

   Thanks for the heads up on Speed Dial 2, I have been using Speed Dial, which isn’t nearly as capable.
2. George from Tulsa January 18, 2012 at 3:54 pm

   Camino!

   Camino, which was recently updated, is a Mac-specific iteration from the Mozilla base. It is slick, reliable, and easy to reset (meaning, return to bare, no cookies, etc). Open source, community built.

   I use Camino when I want to browse freely without “security” like Ghostery and NoScript.

   Give it a try: http://caminobrowser.org/
3. Michael H. Gerloff January 19, 2012 at 1:10 pm

   Another great show – thanks a lot!

   I assist Bob that iCab mobile is a great browser for iOS. Next to unlimited tabs the cool thing is the download ability. Safari on my iPad always drives me crazy whenever I want to download a podcast or sth. else.

   And I also highly recommend iSwifter for iPad when you need to see a flash website on the iPad. I use it quite often for checking video clips on a broadcaster website I work for.

   And I like the OmniWeb browser with the sidebar and the workspaces.

   Thanks again for the show.
   Michael
4. Frege0 January 20, 2012 at 7:20 am

   See below note on ReadNow:

   I’ve pulled ReadNow from the Mac App Store because of an infringement letter. In my current situation I’m not allowed to provide any further information.

   I’m very sorry, but ReadNow is not available for download until the future of it is completely clarified.

   – Michael
5. Overniven January 20, 2012 at 9:22 am

   I believe what has happened with Firefox is that they moved from numbering their updates from 3.0 -> 3.1 for example

   To 3.0 -> 4.0

   I think that this makes the updates more visible to the user, so it seems like there are more updates.

   Visio is the MS office diagraming software.
6. Duncan Baines January 22, 2012 at 4:10 am

   I agree with David’s point about companies like Microsoft, Adobe not making their Apps behave as ‘Mac Apps’. However, the Photoshop print dialog box has a lot of functionality (that I use everyday) that isn’t in the native Mac print dialog box – so I think sometimes the problem of companies not being ‘Mac Apps’ is more complicated than it initially seems.
7. Andrea January 22, 2012 at 7:14 am

   My biggest annoyance with Safari is that when I start typing in the address bar, the list of suggestions has my bookmarks in the bottom place. The top place is given to what Safari thinks is the best suggestion, then there’s all the browser history and, after that, the bookmarks.
   If I bookmarked a page, I would like to have easy access to that page. With Safari I have to hit the down arrow several times, whereas with Chrome I just have to hit enter to go the the desired page.
   I searched for a setting or extension to change this behavior in Safari, but couldn’t find anything, and that is keeping me on Chrome for the time being.
8. Craig January 23, 2012 at 9:13 am

   David and Katie both indicated they like the functionality that a plugin like GreaseMonkey provides, and missed it on Chrome. Fortunately there is an equivalent called TamperMonkey. I’ve not dug into the details so I’m not sure if it’s fully compatible with GreaseMonkey scripts, but it seems to do the job just fine and I’ve been using it for a while now without any problems. Definitely worth a look if you want Greasemonkey type functionality in Chrome.
9. Mike B January 23, 2012 at 9:48 am

   Another great show! I agree with David that Chrome’s Print Preview is annoying. To disable: On your Google Chrome address bar, type “about:flags” (without the quote) and press Enter.

   Scroll down to Print Preview and click “Disable” restart Chrome.
10. Robert Livingston February 7, 2012 at 12:11 am

    I like WOT – web of trust. I find that the little warnings about questionable sites serve me well. It keeps me out of those hellish sites that “trap you” and push ads at you so hard that you cannot breath.

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