Journal Jorj X. McKie's Journal: First Firefox Post...
ForSC - Updated 20100225
With the Annoying Virus Adventure in the past, and all of our computers updated with the latest AVG antivirus, I turned to the issue of a new browser. Firefox is the first test, and I like it a lot. First thing to get installed was a mouse gestures extension, as I've become dependent. Very nice installation for extensions, and much of the UI shows better planning than IE. I'm not 100% sure about tabbed browsing yet, but it definitely is very nice in some situations.
The one thing that I miss from IE, at this point, is the image toolbar. Not only could I initiate an image save with one click, but it would also tell me how the images were laid out on the page. Anyone know if this is contemplated as a feature or implemented in an extension?
Also, I would be very interested in anyone's Firefox tips and tricks. I know a lot about the ins and outs of IE, but I'm a newbie with this browser. Thanks!
Update: Another minor irritation: IE keeps a "last saved in" setting for each type of file that is saved (or, at least, different settings for web pages and images), but Firefox does not. It looks like saving a download file, an image, and a web page all use the same "last location" setting.
Update 2: I've set Firefox to be my default browser, but when I open an internet shortcut on my desktop, it uses IE instead. However, URLRun (a program that takes the current content of the clipboard, removes spaces and line breaks, and opens it as a URL - it's very useful for long URLs that are broken between lines in e-mails) correctly uses the default browser. Double-clicking a local HTML file correctly uses the default browser. Anyone know how to correct this?
Update 3: Almost forgot to add: I'm writing this in Mozilla Moontiger. Gotta love that Firesomething!
With the Annoying Virus Adventure in the past, and all of our computers updated with the latest AVG antivirus, I turned to the issue of a new browser. Firefox is the first test, and I like it a lot. First thing to get installed was a mouse gestures extension, as I've become dependent. Very nice installation for extensions, and much of the UI shows better planning than IE. I'm not 100% sure about tabbed browsing yet, but it definitely is very nice in some situations.
The one thing that I miss from IE, at this point, is the image toolbar. Not only could I initiate an image save with one click, but it would also tell me how the images were laid out on the page. Anyone know if this is contemplated as a feature or implemented in an extension?
Also, I would be very interested in anyone's Firefox tips and tricks. I know a lot about the ins and outs of IE, but I'm a newbie with this browser. Thanks!
Update: Another minor irritation: IE keeps a "last saved in" setting for each type of file that is saved (or, at least, different settings for web pages and images), but Firefox does not. It looks like saving a download file, an image, and a web page all use the same "last location" setting.
Update 2: I've set Firefox to be my default browser, but when I open an internet shortcut on my desktop, it uses IE instead. However, URLRun (a program that takes the current content of the clipboard, removes spaces and line breaks, and opens it as a URL - it's very useful for long URLs that are broken between lines in e-mails) correctly uses the default browser. Double-clicking a local HTML file correctly uses the default browser. Anyone know how to correct this?
Update 3: Almost forgot to add: I'm writing this in Mozilla Moontiger. Gotta love that Firesomething!
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