Mac users are easily impressed apparently. First of all, yeah, no tabbed browsing, and God knows why they ditched Gecko. But also, what's new? Apple is passing off every feature of Safari (which is a very unoriginal name + hardly compatible with their iProductline) as an innovation, while actually it's been done - a lot. (Well, except for SnapBack, but if you ask me, you've got to surf for ages before you forget where you last clicked.) Let's just go over their so-called inventions: Popup killer: Mozilla. Instant bookmark categorizing: Phoenix. Google toolbar: Phoenix. Dragging bookmarks around: IE. Granted, it's a combination of features from several browsers, but that doesn't make it new, let alone innovative.
For the record, I'm no Mac user... I've got 2 ancient Macs which I don't use anymore. But if I did have, say, one of their 17" PowerBooks (I like those though), I'd definitely use Mozilla instead, and bear with the cosmetic glitches.
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I was giving examples. Afa I know, Opera was the first browser to have a native popup killer, etc. etc.
Mac users are easily impressed apparently. First of all, yeah, no tabbed browsing, and God knows why they ditched Gecko. But also, what's new? Apple is passing off every feature of Safari (which is a very unoriginal name + hardly compatible with their iProductline) as an innovation, while actually it's been done - a lot. (Well, except for SnapBack, but if you ask me, you've got to surf for ages before you forget where you last clicked.) Let's just go over their so-called inventions: Popup killer: Mozilla. Instant bookmark categorizing: Phoenix. Google toolbar: Phoenix. Dragging bookmarks around: IE. Granted, it's a combination of features from several browsers, but that doesn't make it new, let alone innovative. For the record, I'm no Mac user... I've got 2 ancient Macs which I don't use anymore. But if I did have, say, one of their 17" PowerBooks (I like those though), I'd definitely use Mozilla instead, and bear with the cosmetic glitches.