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Alternative Web Browsers

Looking for alternatives to Safari and Firefox? Take a look at these other browsers:

- Opera - now it is free, and worth checking out. Compatibility issues aside, it is very fast and full of resources, besides great keyboard navigation and a pleasant interface.

- Camino - a Mozilla-based browser with a native Cocoa Interface. Faster than Firefox or Mozilla, but has no support for Firefox extensions.

- Shiira - think of it as Safari RSS (uses the same engine) minus the bugs. The big minus here is that there's no Keychain Access support. Has a nifty 'Tab Exposé' feature.

- Sunrise Browser - the smallest browser for Mac (900k), uses Safari rendering engine and bookmarks, has useful resources for developers, such as showing the url to all the items you mouse over, including videos and other media files. Great page source viewer too. No tabbed browser or RSS though.

- Flock is a new web browser based on Gecko (Firefox and Mozilla engine) and was released some time ago. It's still in developer preview stage but it is fairly stable (never crashed on me) and has lots of interesting features, such as integration with blogging on almost any platform, del.icio.us and Flickr. Also support lots of Firefox extensions.

- iCab - I don't really like this browser, but it is small, fast, supports tabbed browsing and is the only one in this list that runs under Mac OS 8.5 and 9.x (Classic).

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