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mac user, new browser

by emerica9283 Jan 11, 2006 8:37AM PST

what browser works well on a mac, i just bought an ibook last week and ive been usin the safari but i dont like it, i had the sbc yahoo on my old sony laptop. but when i had tried to download it on to here it didnt work it said i needed a newer version of ie and i downloaded wut it told me to and it still didnt let me get sbc yahoo so i need a new browser, any recomendations? thanks!

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How about Firefox...

by John.Wilkinson Jan 11, 2006 10:57AM PST

Firefox is one of the best browsers available and is compatible with Mac OS X 10.3 and higher. It supports tabbing, extensions, themes, is fairly security-oriented, and has one of the best times (program load and page load) around. There are a few known bugs in it, though they should be fixed in a release later this month. The next best option would be Opera, which has the same functionality and a more interesting layout but little third-party support. Aside from that, you're pretty much limited to Safari and IE (support for which was recently ended on the Mac platform), as the Mac is still a minority operating system compared to Windows.

Hope this helps,
John

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