Tag Archives: firefox

The other day I called up a web-based software company that provides reusable content for one of my clients sites. I asked them why a certain page was showing a login instead of the content. As they tried to track down the problem, the browser that I was using came up, and they said “You have to use IE, Firefox is not supported.” Even though that had nothing to do with the issues I was encountering, and the site works perfectly well in Firefox, they were only willing to help me if I was using the proper browser.

Lame, clearly. When did the business world become so homogenized.

Tab Switching

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Firefox: Control+Page Up, Control+Page Down

Safari: ⌘{ and ⌘}

Camino: ⌘⌥← and ⌘⌥→

Adium: ⌘← and ⌘→ by default, ⌘[ and ⌘]

iChat: ⌘{ and ⌘}

TextMate: ⌘⌥← and ⌘⌥→

Dreamweaver: ⌘` (which is wrong, that is for switching windows)

I don’t know what the appropriate response is: Argh, groan, or sigh.

Firefox Overworked my Processor

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Firefox ran at 102% of my CPU today, according to Activity Monitor. I’m not sure how that is possible, but the audible increase in fan activity was the first indicator. The same thing happened at work today too. Then, I thought it was because I had so many tabs open. And when it happened just now, I discovered I had opened a tab with a movie in it. But then, I clicked on Help to see if there was a Feature Request button, and I saw that Firefox was downloading an update. Still, it brought my processor to a halt with whatever it wanted. It makes me (once again) consider switching to something Mac-native. Oh, how I would miss my extensions.

Firefox Update for Mac on PC

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I get the unified application structure idea for Firefox, where the single application ports to various operating systems, but this is a little ridiculous. My copy of Firefox on a PC just auto-updated. I hadn’t heard that an update was due, so I checked out what’s new:

Great! So now Firefox is a universal binary. So why did it auto-update my PC?