What's the default browser

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for all 'new' macs OS10+

Safari? Netscape?

Ta

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[dragonlady7]

OS10x all came out with IE as the default, but I don't know-- 10.3 is coming out in ... 10 days now? (Go to apple.com and see what the counter says...)
and I bet they'll have Safari as the default on that one.
Safari wasn't out the last time they released the OS.

[Macguru]

You are right again dragonlady7,

Here is the software it comes with :

iLife (including iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie and iDVD), QuickBooks for Mac New User Edition, FAXstf, Art Directors Toolkit, Microsoft Office v.X Test Drive, FileMaker Pro Trial, OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner, GraphicConverter, QuickTime, iChat, Safari, Sherlock, Address Book, iCal, iSync, DVD Player, Mail, EarthLink, Acrobat Reader, Classic environment and Apple Developer Tools

Here is the full spec sheet :

[apple.com...]

[limbo]

Thanks

I had heard rumours that Safari would become the default browser.

How does it measure up to, say, Opera6?

[dragonlady7]

I really like Safari. I use it exclusively on my Mac (at home).
Occasional pages don't work in it. Especially ones that have IE-proprietary code.
But I find it very fast-loading, very sleek-looking, and very easy to customize.

However, I must say, the browser I use at work (on Win2K box) is Mozilla. I've never actually gotten around to using Opera. So, I can't compare Safari to Opera.

>right again

My boyfriend says I'm always right, but I'm not sure how he knows that. ;)

[Jeannot]

Safari

[aaronjf]

I started using Safari as soon as it came out. The first couple of releases were buggy, but showed potential. They quickly cleaned it up and it has been my default browser for a while now.

While its desplay of web content is much closer to IE for PCs than IE is Mac, it still has some wierd quarks when it comes to CSS. For the most part I can preview work in Safari and know that it is going to look the same in IE on a PC, there are still things I have to double check. So far though, it has made it so that I rely on Virtual PC for cross browser/platform a lot less frequent. :-)

Now if Google would just make a PR bar for Safari...

[pleeker]

I just recently took the dive and switched from IE to Safari as my browser of choice. I had used Safari quite a bit since a stable version came out, but was never willing to make the switch until recently.

I like it, and will continue to get used to it. AutoFill needs to improve to at least the level IE has -- Safari's is very poor relatively speaking.

It also needs the ability to Tab through every field on a web form, including checkboxes, drop-downs, etc.

And I'm not a fan of how Bookmarks work, but I'll deal with it. :)

[madmac]

I recently got a powerbook that shipped from the factory with OS X 10.2.7.. it had safari v1.0 pre-installed and in the dock. Though IE was in the preferences as the default browser, it was a no-brainer to change that ;)