I like Safari much better than anything else. There's no major reason for that, but rather it's the little things that have won me over. Firefox doesn't have native OS X form elements, and although sheer browsing speed is pretty decent, the program itself seems a bit laggy. In my opinion, Camino is a much better alternative, if you want to go with Mozilla. Even Camino, however, is somewhat buggy, and neither Firefox or Camino have built-in spell checking or speech capabilities like Safari. I also prefer Safari's brushed metal interface to the look of other browsers, and the snapback feature for Google searching is useful. The little progress bar in the icon of downloading files is another little feature that makes Safari a joy to use. I've also tried OmniWeb 5.1 and Opera 8 Preview 1. OmniWeb is good, but it's a bit unstable and the extra features don't justify the price for me. Opera 8 is a huge improvement over the previous version, but the preview release is buggy. So, overall, Safari seems like a more robust option compared to everything else I've tried. Even if something else is slightly faster or does something a little bit better, Safari is dependible, native, and free.
