Macworld Holds Battle of the Browsers

dumbArtMajor writes "Macworld has an article breaking down most of the available browsers for Mac OS X and evaluates speed, rendering, etc. Did your app of choice kick the other guy's ass?" I don't want to know which one kicked which other one, or where they kicked them. I just want one browser that works.

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Make AppleScript Work For You

[pudge]

The story includes this:

Launch the Script Editor application (located in the Applications: AppleScript folder) and type the following:

try
tell application "Internet Explorer"
GetURL "http://apple.slashdot.org/"
Activate
end tell
on error
end try

To use a browser other than Internet Explorer, enter its name within the quotation marks after tell application. To open more sites in separate windows, add new GetURL commands with the other pages' addresses.

Bleah. You shouldn't need to know the browser name, or what events are understood by the app, or what arguments it accepts. Just use this:

open location "http://apple.slashdot.org/"

It uses your default http handler, and should work fine with all the browsers (and if not, send in a bug report to the maker of browser you're using).

iCab...

[singularity]

I am disappointed the article did not mention more about iCab's unique abilities. It does have some problems supporting CSS, and it is HTML compliant to a fault (although being "compliant to a fault" with HML could be argues as impossible), but some features it does offer are only now being integrated into other browsers.

iCab's Filter Manager is one of the most powerful things I have ever seen in a web browser. You can filter almost anything (cookies, JavaScript, images) based on domain, link, or another other thing.

Mozilla's coders could learn a lot by studying iCabs Filter Manager.

Do you want to turn off JavaScript except for your online banking (that requires it), and allow all cookies but those coming from DoubleClick? Done. Want to accept Slashdot cookies forever, but Yahoo cookies only until the end of the session? Done. Do you want to not load images that are 480x60 pixels big and not accept any images that come from */ad-bin/*? Done.

iCab (along with some other browsers) also supports "Open in Background Window", which is something I cannot imagine being without while surfing.

Another great thing? You can set it to only send a Referrer: header inside the same domain (or set it to not be sent at all)

Unfortunately the article forgot to mention iCab's ad filtering (which is much more powerful than simply rejecting all images not from the original server and its ability to block pop-ups without seeing them.