Firefox For Mac Downloads Top 170K in 2 Days; "Polished" V...

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Link: Firefox For Mac Downloads Top 170K in 2 Days; \"Polished\" Version in March
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[MacDawg]

Downloaded it

But still not compelled to drop Safari
Neither work with Wachovia Bill Pay (evil IE )

Unless there is a compelling reason, I'm staying with Safari

 

[macridah]

I also keep current with firefox, but I use safari a majority of the time ... 98%. If some page doesn't look right in safari, then i see how it looks in firefox ... i don't care how it looks in IE.

 

[1macker1]

OH, i didnt know this wasn't a complete version. If they can't speed up the launch time, I'm all in.

Downloaded it

But still not compelled to drop Safari
Neither work with Wachovia Bill Pay (evil IE )

Unless there is a compelling reason, I'm staying with Safari

...I hope UG knocks AU off their high horse!

GO VOLS!

 

[cluthz]

Downloaded it

But still not compelled to drop Safari
Neither work with Wachovia Bill Pay (evil IE )

Unless there is a compelling reason, I'm staying with Safari

I don't like safari because i can't see where the links are going.
In mozilla/firefox and most other brower the links are viewed at the bottom of the page if you hoover the mouse over the link..

 

[ThePreacherMan]

Firefox Question

How do you import your favorites from Safari? There is an import option in prefrences but it won't work. Anyone else experiencing diffuculties? Any suggestions?

 

[Bob Knob]

I don't like safari because i can't see where the links are going.
In mozilla/firefox and most other brower the links are viewed at the bottom of the page if you hoover the mouse over the link..

Have you tried to turn on the Status Bar... View - Staus Bar

 

[Nermal]

How do you import your favorites from Safari?

How to spot an IE user: They call bookmarks favourites.

In answer to your actual question, I don't know, other people have had trouble too.

 

[iLikeMyiMac]

How do you import your favorites from Safari? There is an import option in prefrences but it won't work. Anyone else experiencing diffuculties? Any suggestions?

In safari go to the debug menu and click Export Bookmarks. Save it someplace
In Firefox go to bookmarks->manage bookmarks. Then in the bookmarks manager to to import.

 

[jackc]

I'll take another look at the "polished" version when it comes out, but I recently went back to Safari after using Firefox for a while. The main problems for me were lack of single-window tabbed browsing, and passwords that weren't being saved.

Some Firefox features that I miss are type-ahead links, an extension to get rid of error dialog boxes, googlebar for searching with highlighted terms, better auto-completion of URL's (they stay out of the way), and probably a few more that I can't remember at the moment.

 

[cluthz]

Have you tried to turn on the Status Bar... View - Staus Bar

no...
Maybe I shold give safari another shot..
The spellchecker is a nice feature, especially since I don't speak/write english natively.

 

[PlaceofDis]

Downloaded it

But still not compelled to drop Safari
Neither work with Wachovia Bill Pay (evil IE )

Unless there is a compelling reason, I'm staying with Safari

have you tried Safari's Debug menu that can be activated with OnyX or TinkerTool?

 

[ZildjianKX]

I use firefox as my primary browser, but there are 3 things that are killing me...

One, open firefox and close all the open windows. Now go to tools-->Downloads. Now try to open a new browser window, it won't let you.

Two, close all the browser windows and try clicking on a bookmark. It won't open.

And three, i hate how the default skin on the mac doesn't show website icons in the bookmark bar or the dropdown menu like the windows version does.

Well, and one more... I can't figure out how to remove search engines fromt the search engine box.

 

[Mav451]

I use firefox as my primary browser, but there are 3 things that are killing me...

One, open firefox and close all the open windows. Now go to tools-->Downloads. Now try to open a new browser window, it won't let you.

Two, close all the browser windows and try clicking on a bookmark. It won't open.

And three, i hate how the default skin on the mac doesn't show website icons in the bookmark bar or the dropdown menu like the windows version does.

Well, and one more... I can't figure out how to remove search engines fromt the search engine box.

Well first two aren't possible on the PC version of Firefox, but the third one strikes me as odd. Site icons (bookmarks) and favicons (URL bar/tab bar) are switched on by default. I have to deliberately change the settings:

user_pref("browser.chrome.site_icons", true);
user_pref("browser.chrome.favicons", true);

both to false to disable icons.

I guess, the first thing would be to check wut these options are set at. You can find them through about:config, or you can use a custom user.js file set them.

 

[JeDiBoYTJ]

I like firefox, much speedier than Safari (not a whole lot, but still noticable), and I hate the fact that when you have multiple GIFs on one page, that the computer goes up to 100% CPU and slows down... firefox doesnt do that for me.

 

[abc123]

safari is a cpu hog, firefox sometimes uses more than i would like but it is much better. both still go crazy when there is flash on a page though, will that ever be sorted out?
i was also turned off safari when it wouldn't ever load pages.

 

[Mav451]

Well flash takes some CPU grunt to support...if you have a G3 or a low-end G4, its not surprising that flash will have a huge hit on ur CPU utilization. Even at my clock speeds, it still takes a 15-20% chunk, which is alot.

Another method is to force flash animations to only play when you click on them:

http://www.floppymoose.com/

Go to the bottom of the page for the specialized flash-ad blocking code. It enables you to have all flash blocked on initial load-up. If you wanna see it, you simply click the region where the flash woudl be.

 

[eric_n_dfw]

Safari Bookmark Exporter

This worked great for me to export my Safari bookmarks: http://homepage.mac.com/simx/

 

[blvdeast]

For tab browsing, either hold down the command key when you click on a link to open it in a new tab, or press command T to open a black tab

To save passwords, go to preferences and there is a Saved Passwords option, mess with it to get your passwords to work

If you highlight something and right click it there should be an option to Search Web for what you highlighted

Not sure what is meant by type ahead links, but you would want to see error dialogs just for the security of your browser. For example if you type in http://www.yahoo.com:https://www.macrumors.com, in explorer (I don't know if it is fixed or not) you would see the first URL but be in the second URL. So you would click on a like that sent you to http://www.goodsite.com:hackersite.com. You would only see the goodsite on the address bar, but be in the hackersite. If you type that in Firefox, it alerts you.

I'll take another look at the "polished" version when it comes out, but I recently went back to Safari after using Firefox for a while. The main problems for me were lack of single-window tabbed browsing, and passwords that weren't being saved.

Some Firefox features that I miss are type-ahead links, an extension to get rid of error dialog boxes, googlebar for searching with highlighted terms, better auto-completion of URL's (they stay out of the way), and probably a few more that I can't remember at the moment.

 

[CaptainHaddock]

Am I the only one who doesn't find Firefox particularly speedy on the Mac? When I bring up a page, I see the page being visibly drawn downwards line by line (it's hard to describe) instead of blinking into view at once.

Also, middle-clicking links to open in background tabs doesn't seem to work. I can't browse without that functionality.

Camino has the same gecko rendering engine as Firefox, but it's very, very speedy for me! And the middle-click thing works.

Admittedly though, the Firefox interface looks nicer and cleaner.

 

[bousozoku]

Am I the only one who doesn't find Firefox particularly speedy on the Mac? When I bring up a page, I see the page being visibly drawn downwards line by line (it's hard to describe) instead of blinking into view at once.

Also, middle-clicking links to open in background tabs doesn't seem to work. I can't browse without that functionality.

Camino has the same gecko rendering engine as Firefox, but it's very, very speedy for me! And the middle-click thing works.

Admittedly though, the Firefox interface looks nicer and cleaner.

I'm thinking that you're the only one because for me, Firefox is more speedy than Camino and web pages are quickly shown in all cases. Of course, media requiring a plug-in slows them down--equally. Pages without such media are shown almost instantly.

 

[Brother Michael]

FIREFOX:

I like Firefox because you can block certain site pop-ups but allow others to give you pop-ups.

I really liked the way it did "find" just start typing the word you were looking for...doesn't do that anymore.

remove imbeded ads

SAFARI:
Looks like an OS X app.

Doesn't have the status bar at the bottom...I kinda like that look. Makes the Window "float" more.

 

[Mav451]

Both Safari and Firefox can enable/disable the option of viewing the status bar.

 

[flat6]

Also, middle-clicking links to open in background tabs doesn't seem to work. I can't browse without that functionality.

That's what gets me right now.

That and QuickSilver insists on using Safari to open internet pages, and I haven't figured out how to tell it FF is the new hotness.

 

[flat6]

Hmmmm, also. I was looking over the most popular extensions, and saw that there was one which had gestures. It sounded cool, like jerk the mouse left and it'll go back a page, or make a circle and reload the page... but it didn't seem to work, or at least on OSX when I tried it