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Omniweb has a lot of features and a pretty good user interface, especially in configuring the preferences.   It looks similar to Camino on the surface.

Go to > Safari Preferences > Tabs. Check enable tabbed browsing.

Is that what you are looking for?

I use Firefox 2 so I can have approximately the same interface in both Mac (at home) and Windows (at work). I do most of my browsing with Java/Javascript turned off and any page requiring ActiveX will simply be bypassed. I also appreciate the various extensions available for Firefox, specifically Adblock Plus, Flashblock, NoScript and Tabbrowser Preferences.

Between the free browsers I like Safari. Firefox is nice too.

The only pay for browser I would consider would be Omniweb. It uses webkit so it is pretty similar to Safari but has a lot of features if you're really into that sort of thing.

Zall wrote:

Sort of. it works, but in Firefox, I have it set where if a web page forces a new window open, it opens in a new tab; Safari just opens a new window.

Safari->Preferences->General-> Switch the "open links from applications" to in a tab of the current window.

As for me I use Shiira, Firefox, WebKit, Camino, and Safari.  Camino is currently my default.  I like Camino because it has spell check and other features of firefox, except it is cocoa.  Safari is my second choice mostly because of Inquisitor.

Im still a netscape person. I have saved alot of  sites in my preferences sidebar and I was afaid they wouldnt transfer to the other browsers.

No one has mentioned Camino.  Not very good anymore??

I love Camino, but I've gotten really attached to OmniWeb's tabs. I use OmniWeb as my default, and Camino as my secondary.

I use Safari pimped with AcidSearch, Saft, & SafariStand as my primary.
An optimized Firefox build with GrApple (Uno) theme is my primary backup.
An optimized Camino build pimped with Camitools, Camicon, and UnifyCamino is my secondary backup.
Things like Opera, Internet Explorer, and SeaMonkey are in the toolbox but only ever used for testing.

OmniWeb looks nice but I'm not getting a web browser for $15 when I already have something I like. The graphical tabs are definitely a nice touch though especially since SafariStand lets me emulate that w/o a drawer (as well as site preferences). Still I think I'd prefer graphical tabs as Tooltips like Apple demoed them for Leopard.

Anyone know about Opera, opinions??

I don't like Opera, silly interface and there are no features that make me want to use it.

Overall I like Firefox best right now. This is because I choose to require the features provided by several of the available plugins. Of secondary importance, Gecko based browsers have font preferences which actually work - with WebKit font prefs are barely suggestions.

If Firefox were to just go away I would probably use Safari with many plugins or maybe OmniWeb. Neither offers everything I get with Firefox and the plugins I use with it but either would be aceptable to me if there were no better choice.

If you just want a simple, solid browser that is fast, secure and displays pages legibly then Camino is a good choice. Customisation is a bit more cumbersome and not as flexible as Firefox and Safari with plugins or OmniWeb out of the box but overall Camino "just works".

For what it is worth, I am using OmniWeb to post this.