[birdman]

I switched to Firefox ever since Safari started screwing up text on certain web pages (e.g. Wikipedia, see here -- incidentally, Mail also does this in certain e-mails that use HTML text). But I'm so used to certain interface shortcuts from Safari that I'm itching to switch back... that is, unless I'm missing something obvious in Firefox. So perhaps someone can help me out.

1) Command-period to stop loading a page. In Firefox, the only options are the stop button and selecting stop from the View menu.

2) Shift-command-arrow to select the next tab to the left or right.

3) Command-up to jump to the top of the page. I never realized how much I used this shortcut until it wasn't there. I use a PowerBook, so I've had to train myself to press fn-leftarrow (the "home" key) to do this.

4) I liked having the favicons in the Bookmarks menu. Finding the site I wanted was easier because I knew that MacNN was dark blue, onegoodmove was light green, etc.

5) In Safari, IE, Netscape... well, just about every web browser for the Mac (and Windows, until IE 5 came along) you could type a word in the address bar and the browser would assume you wanted .com. E.g. I could type "google" and it would go to google.com automatically. Yeah, so I'm too lazy to type the .com, but I've grown used to it. With Firefox, this works for most sites, but sometimes it just picks some other site to go to. If I type bryanbird (bryanbird.com being my home page), it goes to the member profile of someone at braintoday.org. If I type clevelandindians it takes me to a Yahoo Group for the Indians. Why?

5) Really just a matter of preference, I liked being able to close another background tab by clicking its X button, instead of having to click the tab then mouse over to the right side of the screen to click the universal X button.

I like Firefox and Safari about the same, but as I said I only switched because of the text rendering problem. If there's a way to fix the latter, I'll probably go back to Safari, unless there's some obvious thing I'm missing in Firefox that addresses the issues above.

-birdman

[wataru]

There's an extension that puts a close button on every tab. Or you could just right-click.

[TETENAL]

Wikipedia works fine with Safari.

[birdman]

Yeah, I figured it was a problem specific to my machine. It turned out to be a font problem, as I suspected. A client gave me a font suitcase called "BASIC FONTS" that had things like Times, Helvetica, Geneva, etc. in it. Why someone felt the need to lump these all together in one suitcase is beyond me, but in any case it meant I had two versions of Helvetica installed, and OS X was simply confused as to which one it should use. Firefox was using the original one, whereas Safari and Mail were using the BASIC FONTS one (which I guess moved the glyphs around on the table and is why Safari was showing 'gibberish' a la my screenshot above).

With that solved, maybe I'll just go back to Safari...

[TheoCryst]

Hate to resurrect an ancient topic like this, but its easier than starting a new one. I just wanted to re-voice one of birdman's concerns with Firefox, namely number 4.

4) I liked having the favicons in the Bookmarks menu. Finding the site I wanted was easier because I knew that MacNN was dark blue, onegoodmove was light green, etc.

Are there any extensions/Ff prefs that change this? It's really the only thing that keeps me from using it at this point (quite frankly, I enjoy the Gecko rendering engine a lot).

[albook]

1. "Command-Period" stop page loading for me.
2. "Command-Alt-arrow"
3. "Command-Up/Down" scroll to the bottom/top for me.
5. If you dont enter the .com, .org, etc. it goes to the first Google hit. Search for "bryanbird" in Google and see where it points you...
6. Install the Tab X extension.

I'm using Firefox 1.5 on Mac OS 10.4.4. No idea why #1 and #3 work for me, but not for you!


Edit: TheoCryst, dont ressurrect old threads!
Create a new one instead...