Re: Browser Use

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W. "Ian" Blanton, Director of Consulting Group, Tech Superpowers, Inc.
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On Feb 21, 2009, at 5:15 AM, John Stalberg <[email protected]> =20
wrote:

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> 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 =20
>> what OS [ 10.3, 10.4, 10.5] and what platform [PPC vs intel] ?
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> I=E2=80=99m not the person you are referring to but I have a Cocoa =
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>  I use a lot. The mini Dictionary view you can access by hovering ov=20=

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

> System Preferences/Keyboard and Mouse/Keyboard shortcuts. I have cha=20=

> nged my settings and cant remember the original. It might have been =20=

> ctrl + d?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> My biggest issue with FF is it=E2=80=99s inability to scale =
performance wise=20
> . With some (large) amount of heavily tabbed windows, perhaps with l=20=

> ots of scripts and/or flash, it stalls on me. I find OW reaches craw=20=

> ling speeds in a more direct proportion to the load as does Safari. =20=

> FF however suddenly hits the limit and if I'm less than very patient=20=

>  I have to force quit it. This is with latest FF 3.0.6 on latest OS =20=

> X 10.5.6 on both Intel and PPC. With faster hardware the problem get=20=

> s easier to get out of since it all depends on waiting for the brows=20=

> er underpinnings to finnish whatever it is doing. The whole OS wide =20=

> user interface often gets stalled when this is happening to me and s=20=

> ometimes 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 comma=20=

> nd line.
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> 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.
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> 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 =20=

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