Comments on: Free Browsers on OS X

By: Helenka

Helenka — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:47:19 +0000

Operaaa :-)
I use the same “setting’s” files on my w2k (at work), debian (home-desktop) and iBook, it’s great only copy it and no need to configure ;-)

By: Christopher Forsythe

Christopher Forsythe — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:58:54 +0000

Did you look at things other than the contents of your hard drive?

By: Martin MC Brown

Martin MC Brown — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 19:31:55 +0000

Glenn: True, but then I don’t talk about popups in any of the browsers either…

Also, Safari is given only a quick view because although the HTML engine is open source, the rest of the Safari product is not.

By: Glenn Henshaw

Glenn Henshaw — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 19:20:09 +0000

I think that the feature description for Safari is also a little out of date. IIRC, popup blocking has been available since Tiger (10.4) was released last spring.

By: Martin MC Brown

Martin MC Brown — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:25:16 +0000

I’m not pissed about Shiira – I fully admitted in the very first response that I made a mistake there.

I am pissed about all the browsers that people are listing that were not in the original spec for the article, or where, even in the article, I have made specific exceptions.

By: Brian Dash

Brian Dash — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:20:19 +0000

Shiira didn’t make it to many areas (including both VersionTracker and MAcUpdate) until December with v1.2.

Huh? Strangely enough, prior to Shiira 1.2 there was Shiira ... 1.1! It was listed on VersionTracker in August, and on MacUpdate at around the same time.

I can only write an article based on the information available at the time - the fact that other information and options have become available in the two months between me writing the article and it being published is not my fault.

As has been clearly demonstrated, the information was available at the time. You failed to do sufficient research into the subject matter and are now pissed that you're being called on it.

By: Martin MC Brown

Martin MC Brown — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:12:24 +0000

To identify the oen browser that I missed, for which I have already apologized for omitting.

I did actually search for FOSS browsers before writing the article, and I found quite a few which had been started and had died.

The article was originally written in November – Shiira didn’t make it to many areas (including both VersionTracker and MAcUpdate) until December with v1.2. It only hit the mainstream blogs and other sites fairly recently.

I can only write an article based on the information available at the time – the fact that other information and options have become available in the two months between me writing the article and it being published is not my fault.

By: Brian Dash

Brian Dash — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:06:49 +0000

Perhaps you could've spent a little time doing research into the available open source browsers before you wrote the article? That would probably have made a lot of people happy.

By: Martin MC Brown

Martin MC Brown — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:03:07 +0000

What do you expect when neither Safari or OmniWeb are free software?

Based on the free software products that are in the article, what other comment was I supposed to make?

I know, perhaps what I should have done is feature three FOSS browsers (Firefox/Mozilla/Camino) and then suggested that we all pay Microsoft to update Internet Explorer?

Would that make you happy?

By: Christopher Forsythe

Christopher Forsythe — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:52:17 +0000

Still, the entire article is like this to me:

GO FIREFOX GO MOZILLA GO CAMINO GO GO GO!!!!!! oh ya, there is that safari thing and that omniweb thing