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Deja Q

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Sun Apr-26-09 05:03 PM
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Just installed Firefox...

Sadly, the icon didn't show up in the Applications folder. This is odd as using Spotlight finds the app right away.

Is that normal?

Thx!

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Stinky The Clown

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Sun Apr-26-09 08:29 PM
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1. self delete

Edited on Sun Apr-26-09 08:30 PM by Stinky The Clown

misread the post ... sorry

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Pierre.Suave

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Mon Apr-27-09 12:29 PM
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2. Firefox sucks on a mac

If you must, use Camino instead.

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Deja Q

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Mon Apr-27-09 12:56 PM
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5. Thanks!

I will look up Camino...

Might consider Safari as well...

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Pierre.Suave

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Mon Apr-27-09 02:42 PM
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7. The beta of safari 4 is wicked awesome

Edited on Mon Apr-27-09 02:43 PM by Pierre.Suave

Camino is also awesome, and will be even more awesome when 2.0 gets out of beta.

Www.caminobrowser.org

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Stinky The Clown

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Fri May-01-09 04:34 PM
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13. Does it allow the user to chnage the color of visited links?

The only browser I know of that allows that is Firefox.

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Adelante

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Fri May-01-09 12:01 PM
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12. I agree about Firefox on a mac

Camino and the newest OmniWeb are the best for me.

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av8rdave

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Wed May-06-09 06:27 PM
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14. I've had good luck with FireFox

I also run XP on my Mac, and using Firefox makes the transition almost imperceptible (other than the fact that Windows is slow and sucks).

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cbayer

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Mon Apr-27-09 12:51 PM
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3. Firefox was so buggy for me. Would quit unexpectedly and frequently.

I am using OMNI and I really like it, but I think I might have mentioned that to you already.

:hi:

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Deja Q

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Mon Apr-27-09 12:55 PM
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4. What version of Firefox?

3.0.9 has behaved itself nicely so far... though I haven't looked to see if it, like how it does in Windows, cause memory leaks...

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cbayer

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Mon Apr-27-09 01:02 PM
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6. I am not sure which version. I downloaded all the updates until I switched to OMNI

about a month ago.

I don't know what memory leaks are. All I know is that it seemed unstable and unreliable, particularly if I were working in multiple tabs.

You sure seem to be enjoying your new computer!

:hi:

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Stinky The Clown

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Mon Apr-27-09 07:44 PM
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8. I have Firefox on my MacPro, my MacBook and Sparkly's iMac

It runs great on all of them.

This version/build:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032608 Firefox/3.0.8

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cbayer

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Mon Apr-27-09 07:54 PM
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9. Maybe it got better after I switched. I see that what I have is 3.0.1, so I have missed

some updates.

But I am so happy with OMNI, that I am not inclined to go back. The only thing I don't care for is the search function. I really like that Firefox put it in a toolbar on the bottom. But that's not biggie. I love the tabs view on OMNI because I can easily tell when a page has been auto-updated and has changes - a great plus when moderating.

:hi:

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Stinky The Clown

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Mon Apr-27-09 10:32 PM
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10. Here's why I stick with Firefox ......

When I center click (click the scroll wheel) a link (say, a DU thread), it opens in a new tab and automatically switches to that tab. I can't get any other browser to do that. Also, and equally important, I can change the color of visited links. For me, unvisited links show up in blue. Visited links in red. The default colors are to close in value in other browsers. This color choice, on DU, for example, makes it much easier to see what threads I've read or what posts within threads I've clicked.

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struggle4progress

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Thu Apr-30-09 02:11 AM
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11. Some other browsers you might look at, besides Camino, Firefox, OmniWeb, & Safari:

Opera is very customizable
Shiira has an incredibly informative "view source"
Sunrise has a "print webpage as pdf function" that saves a few clicks if you do this often
I like iCab, too

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