My latest switch: Safari to Firefox 3

[Mario8672]

I've noticed myself putting up with Safari's minor inconveniences for too long, so I hesitantly downloaded Mozilla's new Firefox 3.0 today. After about 20 minutes of logging in to my bookmarked websites, and adjusting settings, I've got everything running very well actually. It's more elegant and (noticeably) quicker than Safari on my i(ntel)Mac 2.0GHz. But, I have to admit, I'm REALLY missing the "Activity" box (accessed from Window--->Activity). I really favored using it to downloaded buried files in websites (like YouTube .flv's, for example).


Basically:
Firefox!, love it!, activity box?

[nixgeek]

There are enough add-ons for Firefox that can possibly make up for it. Just browse through the selections in the Add-Ons selection under the Tools menu.

I'm still on the last RC release. Hope to get the final version soon.

[Mario8672]

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

[nixgeek]

I just installed 3.0 final and I have to say it's really gotten a lot better since the betas and release candidates. Kudos to the Mozilla team for a great release.

[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.

[simbalala]

Resizable text input fields.

I expected that Firefox would copy that feature, but I guess not.

[jbarley]

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

jb.

[ghajela]

I also realised that the FF works more faster then the Safari. I tried opening the same site of both and felt that FF takes less time to load it.