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Mozilla Firefox and the middle mouse button
Authored by: BohrMe on Apr 05, '05 11:12:56PM

I've been using the nightly build with middle-button support for a week or two and to be honest, I still don't like Firefox. I can't put my finger on it but there's just something not right about it on the Mac and Windows platform.

I much, much prefer Camino over Firefox. I like the way it renders pages and it's sometimes faster. But for general page browsing Safari is still my favorite.



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Mozilla Firefox and the middle mouse button
Authored by: jhirbour on Apr 06, '05 07:48:32AM

I recently bought a microsoft optical mouse (USB) and had a fine working middle button (clicking the wheel) and right click buttons. (running os 10.3.8)

After I loaded the driver that came with the mouse... now I don't have a working middle clickable button it instead works as an ALT click. There seems to be a crap load of options in the preference panel it added... but I think it would be easier to just uninstall the driver LOL

Bottom line I think my case has more do with mouse driver and the OS than with particular applications... :-(



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Mozilla Firefox and the middle mouse button
Authored by: octo on Apr 06, '05 08:27:37AM

Regardless, the Firefox issue most definitely had to do with the application code itself. Thankfully this problem was finally fixed in CVS, and we should see it go away in the future. Still kinda interesting though, that I took a stab at it myself without even realizing the CVS fix existed, and even took the same approach. (of course the only other approach would require a lot more development effort than one could be willing to put in for a quick fix)



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Mozilla Firefox and the middle mouse button
Authored by: octo on Apr 06, '05 08:34:13AM

On Windows, Firefox has one kink that really annoys me. Windows seems VERY eager to swap the process out of RAM, and as such you always have an annoying thrashing lag when you havn't been using the browser for a while.

On MacOS, I can see where you're coming from as to odd kinks. When I originally got my PowerBook, I tried Safari. It worked well, but its total and utter lack of configurability was starting to drive me nuts. Firefox was a natrual choice, as since 1.0PR it had become my de facto browser of choice on all the other OSes I use.

Lately I've begun trying Camino myself. One feature of it that I really like is its password remembering kinks. One site I have to frequent is designed to change its name in the password dialog so you can't have your browser remember the password. Well, Camino is the only browser not fooled by this, making my life a lot easier :)
Then again, it to has some minor kinks that bother me. Right now, they are mainly 2 things. First, I like my tab-bar to be left-justified and not centered. Second, it seems to like displaying "Loading..." in window tabs even after the page is loaded, if something didn't happen just perfectly. In the end, though, I think the main reason I keep going back to Firefox is that its what I use everywhere else. Of course with the next few releases of Camino, that could easily change.



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