If not Snow Leopard, what system do you recommend to use on Apple?

A few things I don't like about it, just wondering what the best one is to use for surfing the web etc. Thanks.

How small the fonts are for the bookmarks, how you have to click each a second time to close it before opening another bookmark...little things, nothing major I don't think...
A family member was just saying the other day how they don't use Safari, and they use something else...I just wanted some advice on what else is good or recommended.

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    John_Levine_IOPHFI_INH wrote:
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    The copy of Snow Leopard license is here:
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    I have a macbook purchased in 2009. I just purchased a new ipod and am in a loop of updates that seems to have no end.  Do I need snow leopard? Will that then let me use the latest itune update?

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