Software Substitutes III

Your web browser is like your favorite brand of tea (you can tell I’m an Englishman!) or your favorite brand of anything really. Although you can use a different browser, it tends to leave a bad taste in your mouth!

I’m a Firefox person through and through. But Macs come with Safari, so why not just use Safari as my one and only browser? Well, for me, the choice is one of speed, ease of use, and most of all, the ability to install plug ins.

So what should we have in our Applications Folder? I would recommend having Firefox and Google Chrome as two backup browsers. The other day, I was on a website, on Firefox, and just could not get a video to play. Instead of wasting time on finding out the cause (as all other video sites were playing just fine), I just fired up Safari, went to the same website and watched the video without a problem. I’ve found that with these three browsers, I can handle any combination of video, image, text or form without problems.