Been trying out Firefox over the last couple of days. It's pretty nice. Overall, it's mostly the same as IE.
There are some annoyances. I can't use some pages to their fullest extent. In MovableType, I can't see the editing buttons on the entry page so I lose the convenience of higlighting a word, pasting in a link, and having the anchor tags automatically generated around that word. One big problem is that I can't enter in text into an "enhanced" text box at work intranet site. That's a show stopper. Until that gets fixed, IE will still get used. Whether the problem is with Firefox or with people writing non-cross-platform compatible javascript, I don't care. I just want stuff to work. Right now, IE does that for me.
Firefox has one killer feature - opening all the links in a bookmarks folder into their own tabs. Now I can go to all the sites I visit daily at the click of a single label. When one site is being slow, I can see that right away and just start reading a site that's already finished loading. So cool.
Posted by kstroke at February 28, 2005 12:43 PM