As I’d say in Finnish: “Nyt tuli mitta täyteen!” which roughly translates to:”My measure is now full”. It basicly means I’ve had enough.
-Since Firefox 2.0, you can’t do ‘two finger scroll’ on MacBooks when browser is playing a Quicktime video. It stalls and jerks down or up basicly making it un-usable for many seconds.
-About a month ago, Firefox crashed on me eight times in one day. It seems that they thought this might happen as they build in an automatic session saver.
-Every so often something goes wrong, it starts taking too much CPU time and it has to be restarted.
-It takes absolutely ages to launch for the first time after a restart or login.
For about a month I’ve been contemplating on switching to Safari or Camino. First I thought I’de wait for 10.5 and then give Safari another chance. But yesterday, again, I was struggling with it and switched to Camino. I’ll still definately try Safari 3.0 when it comes but as it’ll take while to arrive, it leaves me plenty of time to try Camino.
I’m going to miss the way Firefox handles RSS listing (I’ve started using Vienna, the open-source project, as my main RSS aggregator), some of its plugins and the way you can press Cmd+n to select a corresponding tab but those things alone are not enough to keep me in. Oh yes, and the predictive search bar, that’s really cool and well missed.
I’m not looking back until maybe Firefox 3.0. Maybe. I guess one problem with it is that it is only ever going to be as good as the Windows version and as a Mac user I expect applications to excel their Windows counterparts.
kristian
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2 Comments so far. Leave a comment below.camino or vienna? which one you’d prefer? firefox is certainly getting out of question, I won’t even give a chance to safari..
At the moment, Camino for browsing and Vienna for feeds. Both for their open-sourceness. If I was going to pay for a RSS reader, I’d get Net News Wire I do like the way Firefox handles feeds, ie. you could have them in a drop-down list in bookmarks toolbar or even in a folder in the toolbar.
I haven’t used a dedicated RSS reader for a while just because I think Firefox does it well. But that’s not really an excuse. I think news and blog type of content fall in a special place between regular web browsing and email, and so they should have their own app to support them. It’s just really nice to be able to see excerpt of the whole article and then decide whether to read more about it or not.
Vienna is really basic but at the moment it’s enough.
kristian