Comments on: Annoying PowerBook + Firefox Scroll Issue

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By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 19:47:50 +0000

I have been trying to figure out how to fix this problem for a few months now and I just found your site and it took me about two minutes to fix it. My friend has also been annoyed with it so I will tell him about your site. Thanks Alot.

By: Literal Barrage

Literal Barrage — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 02:14:38 +0000

s based off of the 1.5 tree, it seems marginally faster than regular Firefox, at least on my Powerbook. It does seem a bit memory-intensive, though, but thankfully it seems to be missing several of the more annoying quirks of its OSX Gecko-based older brother. So what’s different about Flock, then? Plenty. At base, it’s a browser that’s seeking to change the way people interact with web services. The Flock devs’ summary

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 04:59:40 +0000

Give Camino a try too…it’s been on the Mac longer, I don’t see why the Firefox developers just didn’t use that code. A lot of it was rewritten in Cocoa, so it’s hella fast. It also incorporates a lot of Safari’s features, too.

I’d use it as my primary browser, except it’s not made by Apple.

By: Doug Stewart

Doug Stewart — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:38:30 +0000

Speaking of flippin’ sweet Mac browsers, have you checked out Shiira? It’s based on the same KHTML core that Safari is, but it adds some nifty features, like Core Graphics-powered “page flip” animation between pages and a “Tab Expose” feature that lets you see all the tabs in your window similar to the way hitting F9/F10 reveals all apps/all windows of a single app.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:34:29 +0000

Glad to help, Doug. I’m still using Safari for my regular browsing, just using Firefox for web development. The startup issue you mention is a big part of that. It’s not quite 20-45 secondson my PowerBook (1.67GHz, 1GB RAM), but it may be 15-20. Safari can start up from scratch before Firefox (already running) can spawn a new window. Maybe this will be fixed in a later version. I really like Firefox, especially with Greasemonkey, so I hope it is fixed!

By: Doug Stewart

Doug Stewart — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 13:58:38 +0000

Dang, man, you just solved my #2 gripe with Firefox on my Powerbook. Thanks a million!

(The #1 annoyance, by the way, is the fact that any time a new window is requested, the whole Firefox app itself freezes up for a good 20-45 seconds. I’ve no idea what causes it, but it’s the one thing keeping me from using Firefox exclusively on the Mac. YMMV.)

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MacManX.com » Blogroll Dive: 10/17/05 — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 07:05:26 +0000

[...] Bryan discovers a new web-based to-do list service. Michael reports that Invader, Binary Bonsai’s complex re-design, has hit the 35% mark. Khaled briefly discusses Flock, “a new browser that?s intended for bloggers.” Jon reviews the Motorola ROKR E1 (the first “iTunes Phone”). Craig is happy to be a 38. Chris publishes a tutorial on how to use PHP to make variables in CSS. Angsuman ruminates on Web 2.0. Mark learns how to set Firefox to recognize horizontal scrolling. And, Tom learns how to watch DVDs on a new video iPod. [...]