Ditching Firefox for a bit
This has all been said before, but want to encourage rails folks to switch to the webkit nightly builds, it’s saved me quite a bit of time lately.
The current release of firefox takes tons of memory, and crashes all the time. While the latest firefox beta uses less memory, it still crashes often, plus I couldn’t find an easy way to use firebug with it, which basically makes it unusable, since development takes so much longer without firebug/something similar that it’s like being in the stone age.
I had downloaded a webkit nightly build a few months ago, but found that it crashed too often when I tried to use the web inspector, which made it unusable.
However, the more recent nightlies do not crash for me, plus the web inspector is, so far, even easier to use/ more powerful than firebug.
So, Webkit is faster, smaller (in terms of memory), plus has the main feature that I need (firebug / web inspector). There’s really no reason for me to keep using firefox.
It always felt silly to have a 2.5gz/4gb mbp and have my browser feel ‘slow.’ No more.
February 22, 2009
Just installed... indeed very fast, but missing perhaps my favorite feature of FireFox (also why I don't use Safari): CMD-<#> to switch tabs - CMD-1 goes to the first tab, CMD-9 to the last, etc.
February 22, 2009 at 5:36 PMThere seems to be a solution, but it's not elegant:
http://justinblanton.com/2009/02/go-to-safari-tab-with-keyboard
Mike - yeah, I miss that too. I spent a while trying to figure out how to get it in webkit, but to no avail. It looks like there are some plugins, but it shouldn't be that hard imo. I wonder how hard it would be to write myself.
February 23, 2009 at 5:33 AM