Can’t Make Up My Mind
- February 18, 2006
- 9 comments
Ever since I got my Intel iMac a couple weeks ago, I’ve been on the hunt for universal binaries (UBs) of my favorite apps. Not that the PPC versions run slow or anything. They run very fast compared to my old iMac, but the PPC versions do use a lot of RAM since they’re being emulated.
The other day, I saw that a new UB version of Shiira had been released. Shiira was already a very nice alternative browser, but this latest version sped things up considerably. After giving it a spin for a bit, I decided to make it my default browser instead of Safari.
Then a few days later, the latest version of Camino came out. I liked the look and feel of it better than Shiira, it was a little faster and it used less RAM too. I tried it out for a day, but decided to stay with Shiira since Camino didn’t have some features I missed.
Now today I discovered a UB version of Firefox on the Mozilla wiki. I already had the PPC version installed for testing sites, but it was slower than any other browser. The new UB version screams though. It’s faster than Shiira, and on par with Camino. Plus, I really love all the extensions/themes you can choose from.
The default theme of Firefox is pretty nice, but I wanted something a bit more Mac-like. I’ve now got the GrApple Default Pro theme installed and customized. It looks quite nice.
So after playing around and testing out the different browsers, I’ve decided to make the UB version of Firefox my default browser.
Les, I found a solution for this in Firefox. It’s called Mozex. You install it, restart Firefox and then configure it to open TextMate (or whatever) whenever you want to edit a textarea. When you’re done editing, save the file and click on the textarea again. It will update the field with whatever you’ve entered.
I’ve got it installed and running. I’m using TextMate to write this right now.
les
April 8, 2006
Leslie
April 8, 2006
Yeah, the one thing I don’t like is that you have to click the textarea again for the changes to be made. Kind of lame, but I’m not sure how else the extension would know to look for changes.
Actually, yes I do. If an extension can tell when its parent window gains focus, it could check. I may have to open the hatch on this extension and see if I can improve on it a bit.
Have you found a way to open up form content in an editor in FireFox? I’ve looked for an extension that does that but came up empty. That’s the only reason I continue to stick with Safari. The Saft extension for Safari lets me open form text in any editor and when I save, the form updates. Its become indispensable for me.