[X4U] One Safari advantage over Firefox..

[eleventhvolume]

>> I find Firefox hard to look at compared to Safari. For me the
>> appearance of the type is just unappealing. Also, some features in
>> Safari don't seem to be in Firefox, like the ability to have a group
>> of sites that open in tabs with one click on the bookmarks bar. I know
>> I can accomplish that is Firefox, but the implementation seems more
>> efficient (requires less effort) in Safari. Can some of you help me
>> understand what unique features are driving you from Safari to
>> Firefox? I'd be interested.

Please excuse me if this is the second time you've seen the following, but I
could swear I sent this response yesterday. However, there's been no
reference to it on the list, nor can I find my email in the sent items
folder, so here are my reasons why I prefer Firefox:

- Requirement to confirm close when quitting: I¹ve once too often hit
apple/q when meaning just to close a tab in Safari.

- Sessionsaver - if I do quit Firefox (for example to reboot after a
software update), next time I launch Firefox reloads all the tabs I had
open.

-  del.icio.us buttons for social bookmarking/tagging.

- Greasemonkey allows me to configure how I view sites, most useful of all
being the Adblocker script with which I can remove most advertising,
particularly irritating animated ones.

-  Ability to rearrange tabs.

- Web developer toolbar - excellent CSS configuration tools.

-  Scrapbook - allows one to not only save webpages, but rename them,
organise them into folders and even annotate them with highlighting and
comments.

-  Page search - I¹ve grown to prefer the extended default capabilities
supplied by Firefox for searching for text within a page e.g. Highlight All,
Match Case, etc.

-  Themes - actually I¹m not really bothered about these at all, but the ŒGR
Apple (Brazil)¹ one I use is certainly preferable to Safari¹s brushed metal.

As to the appearance of type, I've never noticed this and can't tell the
difference when doing a side by side test of black Verdana on a white
background. However, I'll keep an eye out for differences as I'm interested
by this observation.

> I could not find Tab Preview, but while hunting for it, found Tab
> Sidebar. Could that be the same thing? If not, where do you find Tab
> Preview? 
Though it sounds like something better has been suggested, the homepage for
Tab Preview is:
http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/tabpreview/
  
All the best, Colin.

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