The one thing I really, really like about Firebird on the Mac is the single button to make all the toolbars disappear.
I have an older iMac with a small (1024x768) screen. Often, after navigating to a web site, I want to switch to some approximation of "full screen" mode.
In Safari, that is four steps: the three keyboard combinations to make the status line, bookmarks bar and navigation bar disappear and then click the "zoom" button to re-expand the window to full screen. (Why does the window shrink when I make the toolbars go away?)
In Firebird, I simply hit the button in the upper right hand corner of the window title bar. (Why doesn't Safari have that button? Are the Mac OS X UI standards moving away from that widget?)
Safari scales the printout to match the window on the screen (someone's idea of WYSIWYG I guess).
Look carefully at the screen and the printout, the lines breaks in the text match exactly. If you want bigger text and graphics in your printout, make the your window narrower.
"TextEdit" does the same thing, if it is wrapping text to the window width (seeing this in TextEdit is the only reason is the only reason I figured it out in Safari).
The one thing that IE on the Mac has that I've never seen in any other browser is a great print preview. It lets you scale the printout and see what you are going to get immediately. It also lets you "push" the top of the web page (where the nav-bar and ads are) off of the paper.
Safari scales the printout based on the viewing window width (which wasn't immediately obvious to me). One can go through print preview to see what you are going to get, but it's much more painful.
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I have an older iMac with a small (1024x768) screen. Often, after navigating to a web site, I want to switch to some approximation of "full screen" mode.
In Safari, that is four steps: the three keyboard combinations to make the status line, bookmarks bar and navigation bar disappear and then click the "zoom" button to re-expand the window to full screen. (Why does the window shrink when I make the toolbars go away?)
In Firebird, I simply hit the button in the upper right hand corner of the window title bar. (Why doesn't Safari have that button? Are the Mac OS X UI standards moving away from that widget?)
It looks like Slash is putting a space in the middle of "story"--like this: "...sto ry...". The clickable URL appears (in the preview) to be correct.
I can send and receive SMS messages while talking on my GSM Treo 180. Yes, I have to use the built-in speakerphone or the earbud.
Safari scales the printout to match the window on the screen (someone's idea of WYSIWYG I guess).
Look carefully at the screen and the printout, the lines breaks in the text match exactly. If you want bigger text and graphics in your printout, make the your window narrower.
"TextEdit" does the same thing, if it is wrapping text to the window width (seeing this in TextEdit is the only reason is the only reason I figured it out in Safari).
The one thing that IE on the Mac has that I've never seen in any other browser is a great print preview. It lets you scale the printout and see what you are going to get immediately. It also lets you "push" the top of the web page (where the nav-bar and ads are) off of the paper. Safari scales the printout based on the viewing window width (which wasn't immediately obvious to me). One can go through print preview to see what you are going to get, but it's much more painful.