Which of the teeming multitude is the best? Ars rounded up the contenders, threw a few web pages at them, and took note of the results.
Of course, that other 8.7% could be any of 8 other browsers for OS X.
#Review of browsers for mac mac
According to the Ars Technica site log for June 2003, Safari users accounted for 7.4% of all visits to compared to 8.7% for all other Mac web browsers. Safari is fast becoming the most popular browser for the Macintosh, and it's overall usage share has nearly doubled since its introduction. However, Mac users need not suffer with its shortcomings, as there are a plethora of web browsers for the discriminating surfer to choose from. Two-and-a-half years after the launch of OS X 10.0, Macs still ship with Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.2 installed and configured as the default browser. Mac users had several slow web browsers to go with their slow OS. It was a large application with its own rendering engine, and it was. There was OmniWeb 4.0 which had a beautiful rendering engine, but was slow, and Internet Explorer 5.1 which was rendered most pages accurately, but was slow.
Most complaints were along the lines of poor rendering times and incompatibilities with some web sites, but the overarching theme was that despite having a modern OS for the first time in memory, Mac users were still second-class citizens when it came to surfing the web. For the first year to year-and-a-half of OS X's existence, one common complaint was the poor performance of available OS X browsers relative to other platforms.
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