Over the last few weeks, I've noticed Safari seems to get slower and slower. I had to use Firefox to test a couple of sites in development (and to try getting round mime-type problems with browsers ... don't get me started on that...), and found it to be ridiculously quick in comparison.
Add to that the fact that NatWest's online banking service now supports Firefox (finally!), and case closed: I've switched.
There were only a few catches. Firstly, figuring out how to make Firefox the default browser on OS X. This post pointed me to the Safari Preference Pane, problem solved.
The second problem is that I really like all my new browser windows to open as tabs. Unfortunately, there's no preference for this within Firefox. Mozilla update to the rescue - the Single Window extension sounds like it does exactly what I want....
Finally, my bookmarks. I've got quite a few in Safari (even though Safari's bookmark handling sucks), so I want those in Firefox. Safari Bookmark Exporter to the rescue! This handy utility did a perfect job of copying my bookmarks over to Firefox.
Posted by savs at July 15, 2004 10:51 PM