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Most of my browsing is still done with the default OS X browser, Safari, for the following reasons:

Built in spellcheck as you type in textboxes. This is almost a necessity, once you have used it, going back is difficult.

No other browser (that I am aware of) has implemented a History menu item. This is so useful, as it gives the last 10 days of webpages listed under 1 click, sorted into submenus by day, and with the most recent few directly under the menu. I know this information is available in other browsers, but not in such an easy to use manner.

Font rendering, appears to be clearer in Safari (and maybe that is just a figment of my imagination). Although it is (currently) the only browser to support the CSS text-shadow property. So sites (including mine) that use this look so much nicer in Safari. Once this is more widely adopted (by Firefox/Gecko perhaps), I’m sure it will be used and abused all over the web, but for now it is only on (generally) mac user’s sites.

A wider issue is with the OS X keychain (application password manager). The keychain, should, theoretically allow me to share web passwords with other applications (although Camino isn’t there yet… KeyChain question – MozillaZine Forums) which is partially tying me in to Safari, as all my passwords are currently linked to Safari. Not a huge problem for me, as the other reasons above mean I want to use it anyway.

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