Firefox extensions

[gilana]

OK, a few more of my favorites:

Firefox extensions:

Sessionsaver - Restores all browser-windows + tabs after shutdown or a crash (install)

GooglePreview - inserts preview images (thumbnails) of web sites and Amazon products into the Google and Yahoo search results pages. (install)

Greasemonkey extensions:

Mailto compose in Gmail - makes mailto: links start a new Gmail message (install)

LJ New Comments - Shows which LJ entries have new comments since you've last read. (install

Comments

[gilana]

Buggy how? I'm using Firefox on OS X and not having any problems.

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

My big problem is that Safari Bookmarks Extractor doesn't work with the latest OS, so there's no way for me to export my bookmarks into any other browser. And I just don't feel like copying them all by hand. Seriously, that's the only thing keeping me from switching to Firefox.

[gilana]

Hmmm. Did a quick google -- try this.

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

Wow, that was easy.

Once upon a time, *I* was a customized third-party extension queen. I guess I've lost the knack.

Curse you for giving me another toy to play with when I have papers to write!

(When I click on a link with the mouse wheel button in Safari, it opens in a tab, which is extremely convenient. It's not doing that in Firefox. Any advice?)

[(Anonymous)]

Never mind, I fixed the mouse wheel thing. Now I'm confounded by the fact that it seems you can only close a tab when you're in it.

As I said CURSE you.

Er, thank you.

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

Uhh... that was me. Apparently I'm not signed in to LJ on Firefox.

Sorry for the spam!!!

[gilana]

You can right-click on a tab to close it. Or you can get extensions that will put a close button on each tab.

And I'm sorry, or you're welcome! :)

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

Turns out I didn't need an extension -- just as middle-clicking on a link opens a tab, middle-clicking a tab (whether it's active or not) closes it. How simple and easy! Yay!

buggy firefox

[cos]

1.5 is reasonably stable, which is a big improvement, but it still has some serious leaks. If I leave it running for a week, it can get very unweildy and sluggish and I need to quit it. I'm used to leaving browsers running for a long time.

It's got user interface problems. The biggest one is that I can't consistently scroll web pages up and down with the arrow keys. Once I click inside a page, arrow keys just move a cursor in it. PgUp and PgDn also mostly don't work. This lack of comfortable keyboard scolling alone is a big enough problem to make Firefox effectively not usable for me. But there are lots of smaller usability problems, like having to use a click-drag-unclick to close a tab, instead of a simple click. Very annoying. And data entry into web forms is getting better, but is still poorly designed. For example, if I'm typing text in one field, and I click the mouse on another text field, I want a cursor active in that other field right away. Firefox takes it as a generic click outside current field, and merely ends data entry on the current field without switching to the one I clicked on.

Then there's a host of little bugs. For example:
- When I first start Firefox, it often doesn't fully work - most menus are missing, and the URL bar doesn't accept keyboard input - until I switch to some other app or to Finder and then back to Firefox.
- Sometimes when I look at a pulldown menu, either from Firefox's bookmarks or from a web form, after I close the menu, the space it occupied on the screen goes blank (white), and stays that way even if I load a new page, move the Firefox window, or close Firefox entirely. I need to re-open the same menu and re-close it 1, 2, or 3 more times, until it properly replaces the blank area with what was supposed to be there.