those of you that use FF, do you use mousegestures? i'm coming over from PC to macbook and i'm wondering how i'm going to do mousegestures with only one button. i have FF with gestures on my wife's ibook and they didn't work very well using only the "left" click. i'd try to drag a link (super drag and go) and it would do the mouse gesture. i tried to scroll a scroll bar inside a webpage (not the generic one on the right side) and it did a gesture.
which really begs the bigger question: why aren't the macbooks and macbook pros equipped with a trackpad like the mighty mouse, in that it senses "left" and "right" clicks?
AFAIK the macbook/MBP trackpad makes a right click when you put your second finger down on the track pad.
Oh and I mostly use safari with saft to make it better, and igetter to make up for the terrible download management - although I havn't updated my saft since I ran my last system update so its not working at the moment. You can set igetter to automatically take charge of downloads in all browsers - and I've found it to be a geniunely speedy (and FREE) download manager.
I did dabble with shiira for a while which I really liked, but last time I used it, it was still in beta, and slightly buggy. Firefox is my backup browser for sites that don't work in safari. but I hate it because it takes ages to launch, whereas safari is almost instant, and I like the bookmarking and RSS reader in safari. I also hate the way the google search field in the toolbar of other browsers doesn't stretch (safari's has a slider to make it whatever size you want). Safari is also faster than firefox at loading pages.
If I had little RAM on my machine I might use camino/firefox instead of safari/firefox, because I think camino runs lighter than safari and doesn't cache so much. Safari can you up a heck of a lot of RAM sometimes. Its still my favourite browser though, but maybe shiira will take its place one day.
Internet browsers, as with any number of things, are a matter of personal preference? You take em for a test drive and determine, based on your own criteria, which one does it for you - then you go for it. With few exceptions, there are pros and cons with just about everything, you shouldn't base your choice on what someone else uses, in my opinion of course . The majority of browsers are "free," so the cost of trying them isn't an issue, let us know what you settle on?
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those of you that use FF, do you use mousegestures? i'm coming over from PC to macbook and i'm wondering how i'm going to do mousegestures with only one button. i have FF with gestures on my wife's ibook and they didn't work very well using only the "left" click. i'd try to drag a link (super drag and go) and it would do the mouse gesture. i tried to scroll a scroll bar inside a webpage (not the generic one on the right side) and it did a gesture.
which really begs the bigger question: why aren't the macbooks and macbook pros equipped with a trackpad like the mighty mouse, in that it senses "left" and "right" clicks?
AFAIK the macbook/MBP trackpad makes a right click when you put your second finger down on the track pad.
Oh and I mostly use safari with saft to make it better, and igetter to make up for the terrible download management - although I havn't updated my saft since I ran my last system update so its not working at the moment. You can set igetter to automatically take charge of downloads in all browsers - and I've found it to be a geniunely speedy (and FREE) download manager.
I did dabble with shiira for a while which I really liked, but last time I used it, it was still in beta, and slightly buggy. Firefox is my backup browser for sites that don't work in safari. but I hate it because it takes ages to launch, whereas safari is almost instant, and I like the bookmarking and RSS reader in safari. I also hate the way the google search field in the toolbar of other browsers doesn't stretch (safari's has a slider to make it whatever size you want). Safari is also faster than firefox at loading pages.
If I had little RAM on my machine I might use camino/firefox instead of safari/firefox, because I think camino runs lighter than safari and doesn't cache so much. Safari can you up a heck of a lot of RAM sometimes. Its still my favourite browser though, but maybe shiira will take its place one day.
1. Cross platform
2. Tabs
3. Extensions eg. del.icio.us
4. Little icons in the bookmarks bar
Internet browsers, as with any number of things, are a matter of personal preference? You take em for a test drive and determine, based on your own criteria, which one does it for you - then you go for it. With few exceptions, there are pros and cons with just about everything, you shouldn't base your choice on what someone else uses, in my opinion of course