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Rogue, he's asking for Mac software.
I would agree with everyone on almost everything:
P2P: If your not using bittorrent, then the best p2p program out there is Aquisition. By far.
http://www.acquisitionx.com/
Coded by a guy at the local University here. Its shareware... costs about 25 bux Cnd to lose the nag warnings.
P2P: If your not using bittorrent, then the best p2p program out there is Aquisition. By far.
http://www.acquisitionx.com/
Coded by a guy at the local University here. Its shareware... costs about 25 bux Cnd to lose the nag warnings.
I don't chat a whole lot anymore, but iChat works very smoothly.
I use Safari most of the time, and Deer Park (Alpha 2) for those sites
that seem to favor IE. Much better than FireFox.
I don't do P2P at all. After sampling some of the crap that my friends
download with Limewire and all the others, I'm convinced there is
not much out there worth having. And in the very rare event that I
find something interesting, the quality is so bad, it's STILL not worth it.
I use Safari most of the time, and Deer Park (Alpha 2) for those sites
that seem to favor IE. Much better than FireFox.
I don't do P2P at all. After sampling some of the crap that my friends
download with Limewire and all the others, I'm convinced there is
not much out there worth having. And in the very rare event that I
find something interesting, the quality is so bad, it's STILL not worth it.
Now THAT'S even funnier than mine. Deer Park being the alphas of Firefox 1.5 (and the name for home-compiled versions). Unless you're compiling Deer Park from CVS (which you probably aren't), your Deer Park is actually older than Firefox 1.5!
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Yes it is! Deer Park Alpha 2 was released on July 12 Firefox 1.5.0.1 was released yesterday.
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PS: I -was- listing Mac OS apps... well, the Limewire under Windows 98 under VMWare thing was a stretch, but it's still OS X-ish.
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Yes it is! Deer Park Alpha 2 was released on July 12 Firefox 1.5.0.1 was released yesterday.
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PS: I -was- listing Mac OS apps... well, the Limewire under Windows 98 under VMWare thing was a stretch, but it's still OS X-ish.
Well Rogue, what you say may be true, but Deer Park runs much better than the
"newer" versions of FireFox. There are many sites that I have gone to that are
really strange with Firefox. The most common problem being groups of "buttons"
that re-arrange themselves as I drag the cursor over them. With FireFox, I have seen lines of text change position, and paragraphs as well. In addition, FireFox
support for foreign language fonts just plain sucks, and is in some cases totally
non-functional. So far, Deer Park is nearly as good as Safari in this area. So, if
as you say, Deer Park is a precursor of FireFox (I don't recall seeing anything on the
Mozilla site that says that) then they are clearly moving in the wrong direction.
"newer" versions of FireFox. There are many sites that I have gone to that are
really strange with Firefox. The most common problem being groups of "buttons"
that re-arrange themselves as I drag the cursor over them. With FireFox, I have seen lines of text change position, and paragraphs as well. In addition, FireFox
support for foreign language fonts just plain sucks, and is in some cases totally
non-functional. So far, Deer Park is nearly as good as Safari in this area. So, if
as you say, Deer Park is a precursor of FireFox (I don't recall seeing anything on the
Mozilla site that says that) then they are clearly moving in the wrong direction.
Rattman, uhum, it says right on all the download pages.
"Note: The Deer Park build you are using is NOT A FINAL OR PRE-RELEASE VERSION of Firefox, it has been made available for testing purposes only, with no end-user support. If that sounds scary, you'd probably be better off with the latest version of Firefox that you can download here."
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/deerpark/alpha2.html
@roguelazer
Not that I use a Mac, but I do find some websites render a little better in Deer park, but I also find more websites that crash the browser, and Deer park *is* the eventual direction of Firefox (and contains some optimizations and code improvements that dont make it into stable releases due to bugs)...
"Note: The Deer Park build you are using is NOT A FINAL OR PRE-RELEASE VERSION of Firefox, it has been made available for testing purposes only, with no end-user support. If that sounds scary, you'd probably be better off with the latest version of Firefox that you can download here."
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/deerpark/alpha2.html
@roguelazer
Not that I use a Mac, but I do find some websites render a little better in Deer park, but I also find more websites that crash the browser, and Deer park *is* the eventual direction of Firefox (and contains some optimizations and code improvements that dont make it into stable releases due to bugs)...
Hmmm, thanks Yoda for the link to that page. It's the first time I have seen it.
The page that contained the link that I followed to download Deer Park looked
nothing like that though. If I have some time, I'm gonna try to find the original
page and compare... Also, it's good to know that I'm not totally incorrect.
The page that contained the link that I followed to download Deer Park looked
nothing like that though. If I have some time, I'm gonna try to find the original
page and compare... Also, it's good to know that I'm not totally incorrect.