Back to the Fox
I tried. I really did. But the Fox is just better in almost everything.
To Safari or to Firefox
Since I made the switch I’m having this dilemma: Should I use the good ol’ Firefox or use the more macish Safari?
As I’m posting this I just discovered one more reason not to use Safari. Blog.com’s rich text editor doesn’t work with Safari. Still I’m forcing myself to give it a try. First because it fits much better into the OSX GUI and also because it seems to be a little bit more snappier than Firefox. So what don’t I like about it? Well in fact a number of things:
- I miss all those nice Firefox extensions. Sure there is Pimp My Safari, but it just ain’t the same thing, is it?
- I still didn’t find a way to use the address bar to perform I’m feeling lucky searches in google;
- I can’t move or edit bookmarks without entering the bookmark manager thingy;
- Some sites just don’t like Safari;
- I found a way of having Firefox’s “Search as you type” feature but it’s not as good as the original one;
- And other pet peaves that I just don’t remember right now …
Still I’m sticking with Safari for some time and give it a chance!
Mozilla XForms beta plugin
Great news:
From adot’s notblog*:
Bryan Ryner (bryner) brings us the news that he and the Mozilla XForms team “released a beta version of the XForms plugin for Firefox and Seamonkey” Yours truely spoke with Mr. Ryner at length about this release and here’s some of what he had to say.
Firefox - Rediscover the web
The wait is finally over. No more ‘it’s still in beta’ excuses. Take the Web Back, now … Hmm, it seems they changed the moto to Rediscover the Web!
Firefox - Rediscover the web
The wait is over. Firefox 1.0 empowers you to browse faster, more safely and more efficiently than with any other browser. Join more than 8 million others and make the switch today. Firefox imports your Favorites, settings and other information, so you have nothing to lose.
Check this and this if you still don’t know why you should change.
Update: Check the cool new Google Firefox Start Page!!!
Live Bookmarks
Firefox 1.0 PR is out and with it Live Bookmarks. Combined with del.icio.us it makes a great bookmark system that you can use anywhere.
And the popup-blocker has a nicer interface too 
Deleting annoying url autocomplete items
Very nice Firefox Tip:
adot’s notblog*: tip of the day
If you’re like me and you don’t use bookmarks very often, instead relying on bookmark keywords and address autocompletion, this tip is for you. When you get bogus items in your address autocomplete list, you can easily delete them by just arrowing down to the bogus one and hitting shift delete on your keyboard. Cleaning up your address autocomplete for common sites every once in a while will make your browsing experience more pleasant.
Ben Goodger’s Firefox weblog
I feel I must be the only person geek that didn’t know Ben Goodger had a Firefox Development blog since January 2003.
Firefox, Thunderbird and Charamel
Get Firefox 0.9 and you’ll have a fast, usable, standard compliant browser.
Get Thunderbird 0.7 and you’ll have a top of the notch e-mail client.
Mix both with the new Charamel Theme and you get this… very nice!
