Mac Users Are Flocking To A New Free Browser.

GuyGene said:

Ig, me Pismo is indeed operated by pedals… but it gets me up the hills I need to climb. One thing I like to do - keep me money in me own account as long as I can, and being that the pedals do all I need them to do for me, which the Pismo does… nary a problem, except for a drive that failed, and recently failed RAM.

Anyway, it is not the Pismo that causes Safari to revert to something other than itself under the User Agent menu - it is something with Safari that does that…

Danny Boy, you’re not using a Pismo (PowerBook 2000 - 400 MHz or 500 MHz) are you?

I might give Flock another try… but it was definitely not as fast as OmniWeb, WebKit/Safari, etc. for me.

Danny Boy said:

I have the same problem, but it doesn’t revert to Internet Explorer, instead going back to default. It seems to happen only on certain sites. Sometimes I browse for an hour with no change. Then, all at once, it’s gone back.

Jason 'jace' allen said:

You’re right. Flock is really quite good. Much easier to use than Firefox and feels more like Mac software. The social networking stuff doesn’t interest me, but I found the web email features to be far superior to Safari. My web host’s we email doesn’t work right under Safari but is perfect in Flock. The pages look good, and page loading speed is comparable. Nicely done. Hard to beat the price.

Mr Squid said:

Flock is not bad.  It does what it says that will do, and it doe it very well.  My problem with it is that I did not find the social networking tools to be much for useful than just going to he various Web sites and using them directly.  Then again, I am not much of a social networker, so perhaps a hard-core networker will find Flock much more useful than I did.

Ken Wilson said:

I use WebKit with Developer. If I set the user agent to Safari sometimes it will revert back to ‘default’ instead, but what I don’t know is if it actually changed the user agent. It’s never reverted to MSIE. Ugh.

iggy pence said:

OK, I set up Safari with Developer tools, selected Safari 3.1 as the default user agent and all is well.

There might be a difference between the actual user agent used by Safari vs. the setting. Maybe there’s a prefs somewhere that would show what’s really be used, unless you can go to a site to see what user agent it detects.

A Pismo? Those are pedal operated, right? Ancient. Maybe that’s part of the problem.

GuyGene said:

P.S. I tried Flock, too slow on me old Pismo… deleted it already.

GuyGene said:

Ig, I think you are not understanding what I wrote - absolutely NOT, I haven’t have M$IE on my Mac since about ‘94 or so…

Do this:

1. make sure Developer is showing in the Safari menu - activate it in Preferences so it shows.

2. open Developer, then User Agent, and see what yours shows - it might be on Automatic, or probably MSIE 5.x.x. You do NOT need to have MSIE on your Mac; this feature is just to make a web site identify your browser as whatever you choose it to be.

3. select Safari under Developer/User Agent menu, go to some more sites, and let me know if your Safari will stay on itself (i.e., Safari, or whatever browser you chose), or revert back to MSIE at some point.