j/k, but yea, why not just use Opera you wanker. I wuv me some Opera.  Woo woo for Opera!

Mmmmmm, I love my new fan.  And hey Justin, I bought some of my very own Arctic Silver (v 3.0!) woo woo.  Want to borow it for a year? (:

But look at the other browsers for the mac:
Mozilla – gecko based. gonna get faster (hopefully) now that it’s based on pheonix.
Camino – gecko based. cocoa front end (and they have RABID followers)
Safari – khtml based. Standard Apple product. not too complex to use, but has some good featuers (tabs, pop up blocking)
OmniWeb 4.5 – khtml based. Lots of power features (complex ad blocking, autoupdating bookmarks, advanced cookie controls). Finally renders decently, wont be a power player until it has tabs like the rest of the mac browsers.

So baiscally, now there are 4 main browsers for mac os x. all based on opensource renders. I think this fares well for the open source community

One thing to think about: it was one major browser than made the transition from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X. It was probably one of the first Carbon apps. It shipped with Mac OS X 10.0. That took a lot of commitment at a time when Carbon was not as fleshed out as it is today. (Remember that a lot of vendors didn’t ship Carbon apps until after 10.1.)

Let’s also think about the network stacks they had to build on, and how they were different between Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X. What kind of effect could this have had, especially on one of IE/Mac’s major current complaints: speed?

And we have yet to see some of the nice features of IE/Mac in Safari, and I don’t know enough about the others besides Camino to really comment on them: in-page keyboard navigation shortcuts, page holder, auction tracker, in-window history, password management, helper app management, security and proxy support, etc.