Firefox on the Mac sucks! Jan22 '06

# (1 of 9): Michael » bluetrait.com

8 hours, 45 minutes after the fact. (Sun 22 Jan 2006, 4:35 PM CST)

1.5.1 is meant to fix a lot of the mac issues.

# (2 of 9): Matthom

10 hours, 39 minutes after the fact. (Sun 22 Jan 2006, 6:28 PM CST)

Well... that's good to hear.

# (3 of 9): Josh » joahua.com/blog

17 hours, 8 minutes after the fact. (Mon 23 Jan 2006, 12:58 AM CST)

Yeah, but 1.5 (original) was meant to do that, too. I can't see why any Mac user (i.e., not a web developer) would choose Firefox over Safari.

# (4 of 9): Matthom

22 hours, 42 minutes after the fact. (Mon 23 Jan 2006, 6:32 AM CST)

I can't see why any Mac user (i.e., not a web developer) would choose Firefox over Safari.

You're right - there's only two possible scenario's for that:

1. They've used Firefox on the PC, before, and they realized there's a Mac version of Firefox, too.
2. They are closely related to a web developer (ahem), or a close friend, etc - of which the web developer screams "Firefox!" in their ears, every so often.

# (5 of 9): Jason » weill.org

2 weeks, 2 days after the fact. (Tue 07 Feb 2006, 12:01 PM CST)

CTRL+PGUP and CTRL+PGDN navigate through tabs in Firefox for Mac.

I keep Firefox around for the web developer toolbar, but Safari or Camino are just better applications for the Mac. Camino uses Cocoa to wrap the Gecko rendering engine, so it displays pages nearly the same way as Firefox but handles more like a Mac application.

# (6 of 9): Bradley B

3 weeks after the fact. (Mon 13 Feb 2006, 3:19 AM CST)

3. Much better cookie manager
4. Much better way to make shortcuts for web queries (QuickSearch)
5. Extensions (eg. Sage, Flashblock, SessionSaver) let you add/customize features--even mimic Safari behaviors like snapback, or behaviors from Omniweb/Opera/IE (mix and match your favorites).

You can also change tabs in Firefox using Command-n, where n is the number of the tab you want (counting from the left). Or you can use the tab key to put the focus on the tab bar and then cycle thru the tabs with the arrow keys. Or you can customize how to cycle tabs by installing one of the many tab-related extensions.

# (7 of 9): Jackass

3 months after the fact. (Wed 26 Apr 2006, 11:37 PM CST)

The Control Tab issue you mention isn’t true here. I don’t know where you heard that and I am running 1.5.0.2

# (8 of 9): Phil

8 months, 2 weeks after the fact. (Mon 09 Oct 2006, 7:33 PM CST)

Another problem... On my iMac core duo, if I open 7 or 8 tabs firefox starts sucking up CPU just sitting there. I've seen it using 107% of CPU.

# (9 of 9): Johnny Sarcastic

1 year, 5 months after the fact. (Thu 28 Jun 2007, 5:34 AM CST)

Hey I'm a web developer and the reality is we do not customise our code for the mac. I develope ecommerce sites and have never been even asked by a customer to make it function on a mac. I use both a mac and a pc, I do graphics and desktop publishing and that whole world is mac based. But it's so annoying to load a page and get that spinning beach ball and have to quit out of firefox (and lose all my pther tabs and windows. I also cannot access a lot of features on sites (NetFlix online movies for one) because they are not supported. Safari is fine but I'm not a mac only kinda guy. I guess all the TV hype pisses me off. I've been using mac's since 1991 because I have too. Don't get me started on fonts! Peace-out