Posts Tagged ‘Firefox
Firefox is Still King When It Comes to Development
At home, I prefer Camino. At work, I use Google Chrome. I find both to be very pleasurable experiences. But no browser out there comes even close to challenging Firefox when it comes to development.
First of all, extensions such as Stylish and Firebug are invaluable. In fact, scratch Firebug, the default Firefox error console [...]
Firefox: Like An Old Shoe
I’ve had a long and painful war with which browser to use on my Windows machine at work. Firefox has let me down many times before, and the Mozilla Firefox developers have disappointed me. So I switched to Opera, and it’s made me very happy. I have really learned to love Speed Dial, [...]
The Equal Accessibility Paradox
Whilst reading Bruce Byfield’s “Divining from the Entrails of Ubuntu’s Gutsy Gibbon” today, I began pondering the evolution of Ubuntu. Ubuntu began live as Warty Warthog back in 2004, and rose quickly to fame. Its biggest selling point was that it was user friendly Linux, the best, most accessible Linux distribution to date. [...]
Take Three: Enter Opera
Using Flock was kind of a long shot. Flock is based on Gecko, like Firefox, which has given me a lot of problems. Flock served me well at first, but then starting gobbling up RAM. So, I’m pretty sure I’ve narrowed it down, for me, to XUL and extensions.
I’m not [...]
Darn it! Something Bigger May Be Wrong Here
I switched to Flock, and you know what? I dig it! It’s really nice, and it’s got some great features to boot!
However – this is after a day’s work. Know what else slowly swallowed my RAM? Firefox.
Goodbye, Firefox. Hello Flock.
Well, I’ve made the jump from Firefox to Flock. I’ve complained about Firefox for long enough, and a few days testing has shown that Flock will serve my needs just fine. I have a few observations though, so keep reading for the details.
A Final Word on the Firefox Fiasco
So the Mozilla develpers – particularly the Firefox ones – appear to have adopted this stance:
We are going to bring the XML/RSS easy-subscribe feature to a new, wider group who isn’t demanding it yet, with no planned course of action for the people who are currently using it and came to rely upon it. [...]
More on Firefox
It’s not constructive to constantly rant with no action. So rather than just bitch and moan, I decided to give the Firefox devs the benefit of the doubt and move my complaints to their USENET group as requested.
Here’s the thread. I got a fairly nice response from one of the devs, [...]
You’re Killing Me, Firefox
As I’ve said before, I’ve been a user of Firefox (albeit, by different names), since 0.2 (possibly 0.1). I’ve learned to love it. I love my core extensions, I love the tabs and the general feel. I have really enjoyed using Firefox.
As I’ve also detailed before, I have [...]
Firefox 2 is RSS Stupid
I’ve used Firefox since at least 2002 when it was “Phoenix 0.2.” The internet trail proves it. I *think* I used Phoenix 0.1. Either way, I’ve been on the Firefox bandwagon since the very beginning – actually before it – since I used Mozilla on Linux even earlier when it was in [...]
