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Firefox and Chrome

Andrew — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 04:38:09 +0000

I started to debate myself over Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.

Now here is how I use both of them…

Google Chrome

Because it is fast, it is my primary browser. I check Google Reader read blog and etc. I cannot start developing web using Chrome as the Developer Tools is not as function-able as I thought it would be.

Google Chrome is like a weight loss version of Firefox, with all the extensions available online, I can of course operate it like how I operate Firefox before.

The only down point of Google Chrome, is those extensions are not 100% working well. Most are online apps, which make it a business tool but not end-user friendly.

Mozilla Firefox

Because it is slow, I place it my secondary browser. When I develop a website, only I will check it, and it’s a final check only I will come to Firefox.

I can’t stress enough that some addon like FireBug and Developer Tools are hell of the addon you must have if your business/career is related to web.

Well, of all… I am updating Mozilla Firefox to 3.6.2

Firefox lagging on fresh loading

Andrew — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:06:28 +0000

I think a lot of users have this experience. I for one, happen to experience it the earliest among my friends. Though I’d changed to Google Chrome months ago, but Chrome is getting unstable for my usage, and I love how FireBug plugin works in Firefox and all the rest plugin from Firefox. The list would go whole day just like sales training session. That’s why I’m still convince that Firefox gonna take over the browser share soon

Firefox preloader is a little application that helps load Firefox easier on first load. Firefox preloader load a little memory when you first boot up your computer, to help smooth fresh loading of Firefox. What I experiences without this preloader was a lagging session for at least 3 minutes everytime. Though there are tips on how to speed up Firefox, but it limited the whole usage of Firefox! I understand that bookmarks is one of the factor of speed loading, but I need those bookmarks However, I don’t see Mac version though….

Safari Open Tab

Andrew — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:32:49 +0000

With the new update of Safari 3.1, now they work somehow like Mozilla FireFox, they can force open in tab, with some tricks though…

defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool yes

Write/Paste this on Terminal when Safari isn’t open. To enable Safari to open a new windows just change the “yes” to “no”.

Sometimes it’s strange that why Safari don’t look into Mozilla FireFox and learn from them? They have to know that FireFox is well-known Worldwide compare to Safari at the moment, they (Apple) should at least take a survey into them to know why people likes to use FireFox, what function does FireFox has that Safari don’t have? Are they scare that people will says that they copy from Mozilla like how they said Vista copy from them? Come on, this is the “need” of consumers, it would be “copy” but it will be a feature only, even bathroom faucets are widely copied by Chinamen.

The new features of Safari that enable us to re-arrange tabs is also one of the thing I use FireFox. Now that I know Safari can force open tabs, I think it’s fine foe me to use Safari!

Browsers Test

Andrew — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:09:35 +0000

Browsers included, Internet Explorer 7, Safari ad Mozilla Firefox in Window Vista. This testing is unlike coffee makers test, this is the most recent update testing, included tha CSS3! Which Safari just gave the damn update! Whoa, guess like Apple still running on top of everybody eh? I really wish that Safari update can help the crashing problem that happen on me from time to time, whereas Safari 2 never crash on me since the very first time I used it until I update to Safari 3. Well, get your own copy of Safari today, not only it is the fastest (As in my experience) it is also one of the most advance browser, erm… Not really, it doesn’t support Java text editor applet until now, anyone got any idea why?