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 Post subject: Transitioning to Firefox
PostPosted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 7:24 pm 
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Safari really is an underwhelming browser, lack on features, customizability, all that.

This will bug me no more.

I'm making the switch to Firefox, the next post I make will be from there.

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 Post subject: Transitioning to Firefox
PostPosted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 7:26 pm 
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 Post subject: Transitioning to Firefox
PostPosted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 7:26 pm 
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I am now Firefoxing.

It having a different spell check than Safari is slightly annoying (it hasn't learned all those words I told Apple apps to learn), but I think I'll stick with it.

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 Post subject: Transitioning to Firefox
PostPosted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 7:28 pm 
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Eh, Firefox included a good spellchecker well before Safari did. It's not Firefox's fault you haven't told it how you want to spell things.


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 Post subject: Transitioning to Firefox
PostPosted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 7:29 pm 
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Install Google toolbar if it's not already in it.

Go grab Grease Monkey as a good add-on. Book Burro is a nice thing to add. There's a nice little Google Notebook plug-in.

I would get to carried away with the add-ons for a while.

By the way, you should switch to Google bookmarks sooner rather than later.

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 Post subject: Transitioning to Firefox
PostPosted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 7:33 pm 
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Jim Yingst wrote:
Eh, Firefox included a good spellchecker well before Safari did. It's not Firefox's fault you haven't told it how you want to spell things.

I know that.

I'll whip it into shape son enough.

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 Post subject: Transitioning to Firefox
PostPosted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 7:38 pm 
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Li'l Jay wrote:
Install Google toolbar if it's not already in it.

Go grab Grease Monkey as a good add-on. Book Burro is a nice thing to add. There's a nice little Google Notebook plug-in.

I would get to carried away with the add-ons for a while.

By the way, you should switch to Google bookmarks sooner rather than later.

Word.

Will keep all that in mind.

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 Post subject: Transitioning to Firefox
PostPosted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 7:59 pm 
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Bubbles wrote:
Safari really is an underwhelming browser, lack on features, customizability, all that.

This will bug me no more.

I'm making the switch to Firefox, the next post I make will be from there.


You may have to keep Safari as a back-up if you do on-line banking at someplace like Suntrust.

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 Post subject: Transitioning to Firefox
PostPosted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 8:07 pm 
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I can think of a few, limited scenarios where I would want a separate dictionary for each separate
application, but I dislike the whole idea in general. Tools Approach, people! One good dictionary
for use with all of your apps!

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 Post subject: Transitioning to Firefox
PostPosted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 8:10 pm 
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Beachy wrote:
I can think of a few, limited scenarios where I would want a separate dictionary for each separate
application, but I dislike the whole idea in general. Tools Approach, people! One good dictionary
for use with all of your apps!


This type of thinking is one of the reason I use rich applications from Google when I can. The seamlessness begins to accumulate after a while, and things work well.

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 Post subject: Transitioning to Firefox
PostPosted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 8:54 pm 
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must-have extensions for me:
Google bar lite - better than the official google toolbar (see their site for details)
tab mix plus - extensive improvement of the tabbed browsing
adblock plus - self explanatory. :)
bbcode extra - quickly add forum codes in posts. REALLY handy here.

Those first three are essential "install immediately after Firefox" things for me.


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 Post subject: Transitioning to Firefox
PostPosted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 9:02 pm 
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I forgot about Adblock. I use it all the time. Every time Serge or Glover get a new avatar.

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 Post subject: Transitioning to Firefox
PostPosted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 10:10 pm 
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Addons I have found useful
Download Helper ( you can download practically any embedded media)
Flashblock (you can block Flash, and create a white list of sites you want to allow flash on)

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 Post subject: Transitioning to Firefox
PostPosted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 10:18 pm 
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Flashblock sounds like one of the single greatest things ever.

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 Post subject: Transitioning to Firefox
PostPosted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 10:39 pm 
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I use Firefox too. I'm not familiar with those add-ons that the others have mentioned.

I've hardly used my Safari browser.

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 Post subject: Transitioning to Firefox
PostPosted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 12:01 pm 
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Firefox is the Official Browser of Judge WAN.

Gold Star for Bubbles.

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 Post subject: Transitioning to Firefox
PostPosted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 2:52 pm 
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Judge WAN wrote:
Gold Star for Bubbles.

:yay:

I guess I like Firefox, but it seems to be slower than Safari, which is annoying.

But it's got neatness that Safari just doesn't have.

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 Post subject: Transitioning to Firefox
PostPosted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 9:24 pm 
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Still digging Firefox.

Just so y'all know.

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 Post subject: Transitioning to Firefox
PostPosted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 9:27 pm 
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 Post subject: Transitioning to Firefox
PostPosted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 3:38 am 
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Bubbles wrote:
I am now Firefoxing.

It having a different spell check than Safari is slightly annoying (it hasn't learned all those words I told Apple apps to learn), but I think I'll stick with it.

:thumbsup:

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 Post subject: Transitioning to Firefox
PostPosted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 11:27 pm 
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So, I just downloaded Firefox and am using it as well.

Mostly, I did it to try and help me fix the strange things that Firefox does when it displays the new changes I've been making to my website. My links page, for example - in IE, all the banner links right-justify just fine, but in Firefox, my friends were telling me that they are all tossed around the page. The banners, that is. Not my friends.

I know how to fix it (and have done so on my new collaborations pages), but want to run and tweak the site while using Firefox just to make sure that all updates I make in the general website overhaul for the next week or so are running fine.

So, I've only been using Firefox for about an hour or so, but I do like the weather add-on I installed. Plus the Red-Shift V2 theme I installed.

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 Post subject: Transitioning to Firefox
PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:34 am 
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