Re: Browser Use

On 11 feb 2009, at 10.30, Andrew Zima wrote:
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> Would the last person mind sharing an example of Firefox's lack of =20
> Contextual menu support? YMMV but I've never had a problem with =20
> contextual menus [finding them or using them on G4/G5/intel].
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> In the future, could the person having problems atleast mention what =20=

> OS [ 10.3, 10.4, 10.5] and what platform [PPC vs intel] ?
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I=92m not the person you are referring to but I have a Cocoa favourite I =
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use a lot. The mini Dictionary view you can access by hovering over a =20=

word and hit a key combination. The correct keys is located in System =20=

Preferences/Keyboard and Mouse/Keyboard shortcuts. I have changed my =20
settings and cant remember the original. It might have been ctrl + d?

There are probably a plug-in for FF that will do this and this =20
illustrates a bit the different approach between OW and FF. OW comes =20
jammed with integrated features and FF needs to be taken care of by =20
the user until it shines.

I don't know when the Dictionary feature were introduced but it has =20
been there for Cocoa apps for at least a couple of OS X versions and =20
it is CPU agnostic.

My biggest issue with FF is it=92s inability to scale performance wise. =20=

With some (large) amount of heavily tabbed windows, perhaps with lots =20=

of scripts and/or flash, it stalls on me. I find OW reaches crawling =20
speeds in a more direct proportion to the load as does Safari. FF =20
however suddenly hits the limit and if I'm less than very patient I =20
have to force quit it. This is with latest FF 3.0.6 on latest OS X =20
10.5.6 on both Intel and PPC. With faster hardware the problem gets =20
easier to get out of since it all depends on waiting for the browser =20
underpinnings to finnish whatever it is doing. The whole OS wide user =20=

interface often gets stalled when this is happening to me and =20
sometimes I find it easier to remotely login (I have a couple of Macs =20=

sitting on my desktop connected with Gbit) and kill FF from a command =20=

line.

OW might not be perfect (yet) but all in all it is one of the things =20
that really makes my choice of OS platform extra worthwhile. When I =20
think about it OS X would be significantly less attractive if OW =20
disappeared! And yet it would be pretty nice anyway in such a case.

I think Apple should make their http://www.me.com/ page to recognise =20
OW as a capable browser with the default browser settings. Or is it =20
perhaps OmniGroup that should think twice about it and come up with a =20=

solution? In any case there should be an non issue to surf right in on =
http://www.me.com/=20
  with a WebKit based browser such as OW.

John Stalberg