Comments on: A Web addict’s browser setup

By: Oshoma Momoh

Oshoma Momoh — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 13:48:03 +0000

Sean: I have yet to try yubnub. Thanks for the pointer.

James: Here’s why I use Firefox: it’s very fast, doesn’t chew up as much memory as IE; clean, simple, usable UI; tabs; search box; bookmarks open in tabs; lots of useful extensions; nice dev tools including pretty-printed View Source; it’s good to try new things. Drawbacks: cut/paste from HTML tables into Word doesn’t work; and some sites don’t render properly… but this almost never bites me. Most major sites have figured out they need to test for Firefox compat, since it’s now >10% of browsers. On my blog, Firefox accounts for half of the hits.

My gripes with IE7 Beta are: performance; rendering / compat bugs; UI appears to be regressing in usability. I am sure the team will fix the first two issues before they ship.

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By: Rehan

Rehan — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 22:45:41 +0000

James, try the IE7 preview and then you may appreciate Firefox a bit more. I like IE6, but I really don’t like the interface of IE7 and I’d rather use Firefox.

By: James Drage

James Drage — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 22:14:57 +0000

I tried Firefox for 3 days and just uninstalled it. The perf is quite good, probably better than IE6. However, there are too many rendering bugs - to the point where it was unusable on several sites. I saw varying results from cosmetic problems like image alignment all the way to missing functionality (mostly with scripted pop-up menus) and even a completely blank page. I haven’t tried the IE7 preview yet.

By: Sean O'Hagan

Sean O'Hagan — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 02:36:27 +0000

Nice tips.

coComment is indeed nice, but there are some sites on which it just doesn’t want to work. (In fact, the whole site appears to be down at this very moment.)

YubNub (http://www.yubnub.org) has become quite indispensible to me recently. I’ve installed the yubnub Firefox search engine plug-in and use it constantly. For example, someone has created a command called “coComu” which takes you to your coComments page (ie. type “cocomu oshoma”). Need to search Amazon.ca? Type “amca Dickens”. There are hundreds of useful commands and the community is developing new ones everday.