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about:config does wonderful things
While this may work on Windows and Linux versions of Firefox, this does nothing on the Mac version. As I understand it, this is because Firefox Mac uses an outdated mouse handler that only includes support for one button (a throwback to the OS 9 days?), as opposed to Panther's flawless support for every button on my MX 500 right out of the box. I know there's a bug report detailing this problem along with a proposed patch, but the patch has not yet been integrated into any binaries.
Oh, you just had to make my day, didn't you?
At one level, I hate Firefox. I hate it because of what it's done to Mozilla, which is much more stable, uses no more RAM, and doesn't need extensions like TabBrowserPreferences or TabBrowserExtensions to actually let you load your tabs in the background or trap middle-clicks. On my Windows system, Firefox (1.0 final) crashes frequently and fails to exit properly about two times out of five. By version 1.4 (about two years ago, now), Mozilla crashed only under really unusual circumstances (like, on a WinME system that had been running for a week or so). But I use Firefox, because there are tools I've gotten accustomed to using. Which is also the source of its problems, I think: Firefox is where the cool kids like to play, and the cool kids just aren't down with boring stuff like debugging and refinement. They'd rather climb mountains than till the soil, to put it in zen terms. So by using Firefox for the features, I'm tacitly contributing to the problem I decry... Safari is nice and crisp, but I find it to be anemic in features by comparison with Mozilla and Firefox; and I'm frankly a bit disappointed in how it compares to Konqueror. OTOH, some of those high-end Konqueror-style features would probably be confusing to unsophisticated users. BTW, Firefox does support right-click -- just not middle-click. If it didn't support right-click, I'd be outta there so fast....
Oh, you just had to make my day, didn't you?
I actually find the opposite to be true between Mozilla and Firefox. |
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