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- 3 years ago on August 26, 2005
Jon Hicks posed the question “What browser are you using the most on OS X?” and suggests that Firefox’s popularity (it came second to Safari) is mainly due to the Web Developer extension. I suspect it may also be an issue of consistency for those of us who use both Mac OS X and Windows.
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Oh, I almost forgot Safari’s sweet, sweet handling of RSS feeds.
I couldn’t agree more with MonkeySpank. FF on OS X isn’t nearly as good as it’s windows counterpart. Safari is much faster, plus the “middle-click open in new tab” works in Safari. However, the two extensions I do love to use with FF when I use it on the PC is WD Toolbar and Greasemonkey. Still on the Mac, I’ll sacrifice functionality for Safari’s speed. I have tried DeerPark (alpha of FF 1.5) on OS X, and it does seems much faster, and does support “middle-click”.
You mean middleclick on javascript links or middleclick on all links? I’m just wondering, because in Win&Lin you can click your scroll wheel on a non javascript link to open in a new tab. Is that different on macos?
xeen, woody probably means that we cannot middleclick on any link. i am in the same situation : firefox 1.0 on the mac, unlike windows and linux, ignores middleclicks (to open a link in a new tab or close a tab). fortunately, firefox 1.5 will fix this.
MonkeySpank
3 years ago
August 26, 2005
Firefox on OS X is woeful compared to Safari in terms of speed and UI refinement. And why the hell does it STILL interpret a horizontal motion (two finger drag on a Powerbook trackpad) as a Go Back mouse gesture???
The only reason I use FF on OS X is because of your Web Developer extension. And very occasionally to check out a site that I suspect may be misrendered by Safari.
If your Web Developer extension was available for Safari I’d drop FF in a blink.
Now Firefox on Windows…that’s another matter.