Comments on: Gecko 1.8: Bye-bye printed float bug!

By: Geoffrey Sneddon

Geoffrey Sneddon — Sun, 03 Apr 2005 17:00:16 +0000

I was playing around with Moz 1.8b last week, and I did notice quite a few things, but one that stuck out, was it’s sheer speed, can’t wait to see Firefox 1.1…

Offically, Firefox is just the Windows port of Camino, so, Firefox for Mac is the Mac port of the Windows port of Camino

Firefox just doesn’t have such a good UI as Safari… You know us Mac users Sure, the G5 optimised build flies, but Safari is still faster, even if it is only G3 optimised I do use Firefox for workin’ with CSS, as it does have the Web Developer Extension.

By: heretic

heretic — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 13:54:26 +0000

Egads! You said something nice about Opera.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 06:50:53 +0000

Camino looks hot!
I’m considering using del.icio.us aswell, but then I don’t know what I’d do with mindlessLemming. I found your del.icio.us account straight away! hehehe… Some cool links in there

We’ve both been too busy lately, it was your turn to respond to email this time

Damn! Sorry mate

By: Brady J. Frey

Brady J. Frey — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 06:25:06 +0000

We’ve both been too busy lately, it was your turn to respond to email this time

Yeah, it’s nothing special — and the lack of strong controls like forcing bookmarks (though I’m del.icio.us all the way nowadays) doesn’t help. What ‘does’ help is it definately feels more mac; in it’s key commands, it’s interface, it’s intuitive controls… something firefox lacks completely on the platform.

Hopefully as http://www.caminobrowser.org/ gets going, I’ll become a full turncoat.

Firefox is very PC like, it’s probably why you’re so accustomed to it!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 03:13:52 +0000

Well if it isn’t my old friend Mr Frey – hey bro
Believe it or not, IE is (was) slightly ahead of Gecko in this area, as their floats print when split across pages.

I’ve been using Safari a bit recently (testing only. PC’s forever! ) and my impression has basically been “So what?”. It obviously toasts IE mac, but I don’t find it anywhere near as friendly and usable as Firefox.

By: Brady J. Frey

Brady J. Frey — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 02:04:15 +0000

I sure as *#$ hope safari is catching up — the more and more I surf on my mac, the more I start leaning into mozilla browsers.

This is great to know, though — one because I was complaining about printed floats yesterday when I was fudging with my online resume — and two because it makes IE farther and farther in the distance. Cheers to pending defeat.