number 9

Firefox and me have been best friends for years, but lately it’s been messing me around.

Clint, what’s Russian for ‘just fire the fucking missile’?

I’m on a PowerPC OS X machine, and if I don’t shut it down overnight it’s leaked all free memory by the morning.
Plus it tends to sit and drool just when an auction is about to close, or a Wii turns up on game.co.uk, or you
just want do some work.

Firefox 3 fills me with dread.
I’ve heard it will be ‘faster, stabler and with more features’ which is a ‘pick 2’ situation if ever I heard one.

going native

Another reason used to be cross platform muscle memory, but I’m due a new laptop soon, and it’ll be a Mac
(because it’s the best laptop OS, that’s why. You may disagree, but you are wrong, please don’t waste everyones time saying so out loud).

I’ve tried Safari a few times, but there are a few things it can’t do that I need.

1. del.icio.us integration
2. your homepage can be multiple tabs (so they all open ot once)
3. keyword support (the real must have)

Today, Firefox forced my hand by breaking its own del.icio.us extension. The keyboard shortcuts no longer work, which for me means it might as well not exist.

exit strategy

I’ve fixed all the showstoppers above like this.

1. just use the standard del.icio.us bookmarklet
2. make a ‘hometabs’ bookmark folder and enable ‘Auto-click’. This loads all the folder contents, one per tab,
   when you click the folder name
   • (’Bookmarks → Bookmark all these N tabs’ does the same thing, but it’s easier to edit a folder)
3. use Sogudi

Sogudi was the real saviour here. I’ve found several projects that claim to do the same thing, but they either
involve hacking the search box or (shudder )the binary. More importantly, they just hack the ‘Google’ search box., instead of the location bar.

Runs fine on Leopard, and converting
all my Firefox keywords
just involved choosing ‘Safari → Sogudi’ and pasting them in.
Just remember to replace all the ’%s’ with ‘@’.

does whatever a spider can

Ceri also recommended Webkit . It’s a drop-in
nightly build of the new rendering engine, which is handy if you need to raise bugs etc.

It’s a lot less daunting than that sounds.
Shows up as a second Safari icon you can click to run Safari under it
(generally when the main icon is having trouble with a particular page).