Comments on: Why do Mac users use Powerpoint and Firefox?

By: MoDaD

MoDaD — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 04:40:05 +0000

"I never use Firefox or Firefox extensions so I guess I just don’t know what I’m missing."

You have no creditability after that statement. You should not consider yourself in a position to tell anyone anything about computers. If you told me the color of your computer, and it was in front of me, I would still check it myself because of how little creditability you have revealed yourself to have.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:16:38 +0000

“And while it is certainly true that Windows users should use Firefox, on the Mac I personally don’t see the point.”

LOL, what arrogance! Because some people want different features than you, that’s why. Maybe if Steve Jobs didn’t have the same level of arrogance, Safari would be extensible and people wouldn’t feel the need to make such silly statements as the one above.

By: counter

counter — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:08:53 +0000

I like firefox more because of extensions. Camino and others don’t support them. I’m forced to use powerpoint because of 3rd party plugins that don’t work with keynote. So I’m forced.

By: Jamez

Jamez — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:00:15 +0000

Well I would love to use camino as a browser, but at the moment there is a bug in camino that will not let you save pictures, or any files in that case. I use powerpoint, mainly because it was along first, so if iwork was around as apposed to appleworks 4 years ago then i would of jumped at the opportunity to replace the dated appleworks suite.

By: Gil Bates

Gil Bates — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:23:58 +0000

why do i use firefox?

extensions! extensions! extensions!

or should i say, add-ons. i don't know why they changed the name. i cannot live with my 5 little web developer extensions. and since the majority of my time using a browser is for work, i've become used to it's controls. so when it comes to me time, i don't want to learn a whole new program just to read fark

i would gladly switch to camino if only they had the same support for add-ons.

By: joe in oklahoma

joe in oklahoma — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:22:05 +0000

i have always used safari until lately, when it seemed to get less stable (it was crashing on me at least once a day). i like camino, and camino and firefox give me more access to google tools than safari, and firefox has browser sync, which allows me to be consistent across a number of computers.

those access issues and session restore are the dealbreakers, although safari does other things well, and even at times renders pages better than FF or camino. if safari ever dovetails better with google apps, i will try it again.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 03:59:02 +0000

I’m new to Mac and I have never used keynote. As for firefox, over Safari it is not that I am just used to it, it just works more reliably. Here’s how I see it, Safari passes the acid2 test, IE fails miserably, but if things are designed to look correct on IE it means they will be rendered differently on Safari. You can call it right and say it’s doing a good job, but you are still not seeing what the designer intended. Also with tabs, I have found Safari buggy. I clicked on a link and it opened a new window, but I wanted a new tab so i closed the window and command clicked on it. This created a new window, and this window had both tabs. Firefox just did it right from the start. Normally closing a window would be no problem, but I’m using a touchpad not a mouse…

By: Matt Davis

Matt Davis — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:02:20 +0000

FireFox seems to be more eager to show pages designed for an audience assumed to only use Internet Explorer. If a link in Safari produces anything from a badly formatted mess to a blank page, it’s time to fire up FireFox. If a web designer can’t do a website that works in THAT, I’m not interested in the site, nor the client that doesn’t care about it.

Safari isn’t perfect, Mac PPT sucks over the PC version, and KeyNote differs from PowerPoint in being a display vehicle over a creation vehicle.

You need a drawing package, a paint package and maybe even an outliner to work with KeyNote, whereas PPT is an all-rounder, adequtate at most things (good screen/print options) and excelling at none (it doesn’t play back movies well, especially in laptop/two screen mode, its typography is lousy, its builds require silly workarounds, the file format leads to size problems, it doesn’t link to external media well, some media requires geeky workarounds, I could go on…). KeyNote is unfinished, and PowerPoint is getting arthritis.

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 03:19:30 +0000

I’d love to use Keynote, but my presentations (and teaching) are always in Windows-only rooms. (And what classroom response systems work with Keynote? To my knowledge, Turning Point doesn’t.) Firefox typically runs faster for me, and at the time I switched, was compatible with more web sites than Safari was.

By: Alex R.

Alex R. — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:50:43 +0000

… although I totally agree about Keynote. It’s lovely and quick and not over-complicated, and it makes beautiful presentations! Convention over configuration!