OK, I've seen many comments here and elsewhere about how Firefox is so poor on the Mac, but frankly I don't see it. So I am genuinely interested in some reasons why this is perceived to be the case. Can you or someone else list the main complaints?
I use XP, OS X and Linux boxes and the thing I love about using Firefox on all of them is that I don't have to retrain depending on what OS I'm on at the time. I've tried using Safari, but although it gets lauded for its speed in rendering pages, I haven't noticed it being any faster. If anything it actually felt like it loaded pages slower. That's not scientific of course, and I've seen the Apple benchmarks showing Safari to be quicker.
I've come to rely on a couple Firefox plug-ins as well.
A blank keyboard would be neat to use in an office. It might prevent your co-workers from using your station, since most people (I think) are hunt 'n peck typers.;-)
I was considering getting an AirPort Basestation Extreme and Express together to extend the wireless network. But then I came across this note in the review:
One note: when using the AirPort Express as a WDS, you are limited to either using 128-bit WEP or turning off security altogether. This was not mentioned on the AirPort Express pages on apple.com, although it is addressed in the manual. WPA is generally not supported over bridged connections on WiFi products due to the fact that WPA encrypts the MAC addresses which WDS relies on for communication. Keep this limitation in mind when using the Express as a bridge.
Please enlighten me if I am incorrect, but I was under the impression that WEP was basically worthless as far as security is concerned, and that one should always use WPA.
And interestingly, the fastest ChampCar driver was still slower than the slowest Formula One driver in the slowest car of the time (Alex Yoong/Mindardi).
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OK, I've seen many comments here and elsewhere about how Firefox is so poor on the Mac, but frankly I don't see it. So I am genuinely interested in some reasons why this is perceived to be the case. Can you or someone else list the main complaints? I use XP, OS X and Linux boxes and the thing I love about using Firefox on all of them is that I don't have to retrain depending on what OS I'm on at the time. I've tried using Safari, but although it gets lauded for its speed in rendering pages, I haven't noticed it being any faster. If anything it actually felt like it loaded pages slower. That's not scientific of course, and I've seen the Apple benchmarks showing Safari to be quicker. I've come to rely on a couple Firefox plug-ins as well.
A blank keyboard would be neat to use in an office. It might prevent your co-workers from using your station, since most people (I think) are hunt 'n peck typers. ;-)
And interestingly, the fastest ChampCar driver was still slower than the slowest Formula One driver in the slowest car of the time (Alex Yoong/Mindardi).