Alternate Browsers for OS X 10.6

September 19, 2009 12:45 PM

Other than Safari and Foxfire, what free-downloadable browsers run well on OS X 10.6?
posted by partner to Computers & Internet (8 answers total)

Camino - 10.6 info.
posted by niles at 12:51 PM on September 19, 2009

Opera is my browser of choice. A new version of Camino is imminent (Gecko for rendering, like Firefox, but Cocoa UI rather than XUL...if you want to get all technical). iCab, Omniweb, Konqueror are available too...check the Mac OS X column of the table on wikipedia's browser comparison page
posted by gregjones at 12:52 PM on September 19, 2009

Opera runs splendidly well.

Although it does suck that trackpad gestures (page forward/back) do not work.
posted by special-k at 1:00 PM on September 19, 2009

Google Chrome, or rather, Chromium. Chromium is the daily build of the web browser made by Google that you can run on your system. I use it daily, love it, and rarely need to load up Safari at all. Google doesn't have an officially released Chrome for Mac yet, but expect by the end of the year.

Here's the updater that TechCrunch provides that, when run, updates you to the latest build:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/16/our-mac-chromium-updater-stay-up-to-date-on-the-best-versions-of-chrome-for-mac
posted by jz at 2:10 PM on September 19, 2009

The current release of Foxfire, or Flamingfox, or whatever it is, isn't running well under any OS right now. I'm finding it maddeningly crash-prone.
posted by bicyclefish at 3:54 PM on September 19, 2009

Special-K

Track pad gestures being different from mouse gestures? I've had no problem with those on my Mac, though if it's not liking to read a button press plus trackpad movement I could see it being an issue.

You might try the two button forward and back, hold right then left for back, left then right for forward.
posted by Jawn at 6:06 PM on September 19, 2009

The current release of Foxfire, or Flamingfox, or whatever it is, isn't running well under any OS right now

I'm running 3.5.4pre on Ubuntu Hardy, and it works fine for me. What extensions have you got in yours?
posted by flabdablet at 5:31 AM on September 20, 2009

Track pad gestures being different from mouse gestures? I've had no problem with those on my Mac, though if it's not liking to read a button press plus trackpad movement I could see it being an issue.

You might try the two button forward and back, hold right then left for back, left then right for forward.

I have the new MB pro which as no buttons. A three finger swipe to the left is back and to the right is forward. three finger swipe up = page up, swipe down = page down.

All these work just fine in Safari and Firefox but not Opera.
posted by special-k at 1:14 PM on September 20, 2009