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

By: Margarida

Margarida — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:50:04 +0000

I loathe Powerpoint (or, for that record, any Office application) for Mac. iWork '09 is so intuitive, well integrated in the system and it's way more productive than Office:mac.

Now, I tried both but ended up sticking with Firefox because it's more compatible with websites and I feel it is easier to work with.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:52:04 +0000

Oh, I forgot to add, noscript, as there are too many dodgy adverts on even mainstream sites

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:30:24 +0000

Well the safari save as web archive seems broken with many many files that I have tried it with, at least with firefox and a decent text editor I can always recover a full version of a saved file

By: Taylor

Taylor — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:12:56 +0000

Part of the reason so many people use powerpoint on a mac is because it is the standard and most common system. I do agree with you that keynote is capable of producing higher quality presentations than powerpoint. However, when you show up to give a presentation somewhere, there is a very good chance that they are using windows and not OSX. This means that if you did a keynote presentation you are running the risk of having any number of problems in reading a keynote file through powerpoint. These include scaling issues, missing or strange replacements of transitions as well as missing or strange replacements of effects, changes in text and general formatting problems, in particular image and text box placement. The ideal scenario involves showing up to the location you are presenting, opening up your file and being ready to go.

This is why I typically try to do all of my presentations in LaTeX using the Beamer class. It generates high quality and well formated slides as a pdf which can be read by either adobe reader (windows) or preview/skim/etc (OS X).

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.