06:11 AM

The great dilemma of my life

I am torn; unceasingly I flop back and forth, never settled, and every time I think I’ve arrived at some conclusion I am immediately beset by doubt and second-guessing.

I am a man who cannot settle on a browser.

Let’s look at the pros and cons here:

Safari has webkit, a beautiful html rendering system. It has a native state-of-the-art GUI, with fonts and controls consistent with the rest of the OS. It has PithHelmet, which lets me apply CSS stylesheets to individual pages (eg: John Hicks’ Del.icio.us hack) and kind of does ad-blocking.

Firefox has extensions; namely, Adblock and Foxylicious. Foxylicious, which maintains a semi-live del.icio.us bookmarks folder, I can probably make do without. Adblock, on the other hand, completely blows PithHelmet out of the water; the simple ability to right click on an image and then create a fliter from that image (or object)’s URL is so useful, and so much more powerful than PithHelmet’s “Block images from server” function, - and its method of excising those ads so much more effective than PH’s - that it alone has compelled me to use Firefox as my main browser. That, and ‘/’ for i-search.

But Safari is so pretty. And plays so much nicer with the rest of the damn operating system.

Any thoughts? Safari solutions or PithHelmet functions that I’ve overlooked? Help me achieve peace.

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  1. I have this same damn problem. Also, I have a similar problem with IM clients, with AIM, iChatAV and Adium.

    Right now I’ve settled on Firefox and iChat.

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  2. Firefox I sympathize with, but iChat? Whatever for, man?

    Z. D. Smith on

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