Tag: safari
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Alternative to Safari: Camino Browser
A good alternative browser to Safari on Mac OS X Leopard is Camino. Camino is based on Mozilla’s Gecko engine, so it operates much like Firefox on Mac, but a hell of a lot quicker. Camino just released version 1.6.1 (May 20, 2008), which fixed stability and security issues from their last major release, 1.6,…
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Import Google Bookmarks into Camino Browser
If Camino 1.x isn’t importing your Google Bookmarks (http://www.google.com/bookmarks) properly (it can hang during the import process) an easy fix or solution is to import your Google bookmarks into Safari first (File menu > Import Bookmarks). Then from Safari, export the bookmarks to an HTML file. Then return to Camino and import the bookmarks from…
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Safari Fastest Browser on Mac
So something that came as a bit of a surprise to me was that on certain sites, Safari is 4-5x faster than Firefox on page rendering. Recently I’ve been doing lots of work on SalesForce.com and I was thinking: “Man, their site is hella slow”. After talking with a friend in Paris accessing the same site, but…