My latest switch: Safari to Firefox 3 - Page 2

nixgeek · #9 June 18th, 2008, 08:04 AM

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Originally Posted by jbarley

But the scrolling in FF3, yuk!
Even The Smart Scroll utility can't make FireFox scrolling acceptable.

jb.

True, it's not as smooth as Safari when it comes to scrolling but for me it's tolerable. Don't know if this still plays a factor, but it's something to take into account as well.

For me, Firefox's portability wins out over the extra performance gains from Safari.

BikerRob · #10 June 18th, 2008, 08:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Mario8672

Thanks! I found an add-on to do exactly what I wanted.

Can you share with us what that extension might be?

Mario8672 · #11 June 18th, 2008, 04:17 PM

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Originally Posted by BikerRob

Can you share with us what that extension might be?

It's called "Download Helper"; you can search for it right from Firefox too.

Mario8672 · #12 June 18th, 2008, 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by simbalala

I’ve been running 3 RCs for some time. I didn’t even realize last night when it told me there was an update that it was to the final.

I use both Safari and Firefox and often have both running at the same time. Safari supports services which I use all the time and its page search is killer. For web work I usually use Firefox.

If you haven’t already you’ll probably want to go to about:config in Firefox and switch this to false as I have.

What does that do exactly, and how do I do that?

simbalala · #13 June 18th, 2008, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Mario8672

What does that do exactly, and how do I do that?

When you click in the url bar (address bar) does the first click highlight the entire url? The default is yes and it’s a pain in the ****.

To change that behavior type about:config in the address bar and you’ll be taken to advanced prefs.

The easiest way to find that particular pref (or any for that matter) is to type the first few characters into the search bar at the top, eg: “browser.url”

Once you’ve found it, double click to change it to false.

Mario8672 · #14 June 18th, 2008, 05:06 PM

Done

simbalala · #15 June 18th, 2008, 05:33 PM

Another thing I found today via MacOSXHints is a pdf plugin for Firefox...

firefox-mac-pdf

It lets you view pdfs in Firefox. I’m on PPC and it works fine although at first it didn’t seem to work at all.

I opened a PDF which consists purely of scan images, a tractor mower manual. I couldn’t see a thing, only white. Then I figured out that the display was huge. I had to zoom out several times to get one page at a time within the browser frame.

Regular PDFs don’t seem to suffer from this issue.