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With this week’s release of Firefox 1.5 I decided to take Cory’s advice and make the switch at last. It’s been bugging me recently, that my bookmarks in Safari were fairly numerous and that a large proportion were significantly out of date. I’ve been using Safari since it’s inception and there has never been an easy way to manage them without devoting loads of time to it. Anyway, the upshot is that I was considering deleting all of my Safari bookmarks and starting from afresh – but then the new edition of Firefox came along and so I’ve gone that way instead.
So far, two days in, everything is turning out to be as hoped for. I’ve skinned it up with a nice theme called GrApple Graphite Pro and downloaded various search engine plugins like Wikipedia and Del.icio.us (both from here) and finally (so far anyway) a handy Web Developer plugin that allows me to do all sorts of things with code/css etc.
More importantly, my bookmarks are relevant once more and somewhat easier to manage imo.
I’ve also spent rather a lot of time recently (see my previous post about bird flu) adding tags to every photo in my iPhoto library. Well, actually, about 1/3rd of them so far… Searching for a particular photo should be a little easier next time…
Heroes: Boris was shouting about tags long before anyone else I know – he obviously has mysterious powers of prediction about these things. 
Villains: PriceRitePhoto for ripping people off with such barefaced audacity. Check out this account of doing ‘business’ with them.
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Check out the Web safari at http://www.pandia.com/sew/116-quintura-search-beta.html or http://www.quintura.com.
Heya Pete, thnx for the shout out.
I’m not clear on why Firefox 1.5 helps with bookmarks? (Myself I don’t use bookmarks at all anymore–except for the bookmarks bar which is loaded up with tools I use–since I can always find what I found before again via Google anyways
I refuse to use Firefox for one simple reason: non-existant integration with OS X. Camino goes a long way to do so, but isn’t quite there yet either. I just switched back to Safari this week in fact…
BTW: seems you need your spam filters tweaked and your MT upgraded… ahem…
Am I missing something about Firefox on OS X? I have it, of course, but rarely ever use it. Actually, our intranet requires a proxy setting that I don’t like to use and Firefox lets you set those independently of the OS, so I do use it for infrequent trips to the wiki.
I have a lot of bookmarks in Safari, but have long since stopped using them, as I do all of that with del.icio.us – that way, I can get to them from any of the 4 macs I regularly use.
GreaseMonkey sounds kind of cool, but honestly, I doubt I’ll ever use it, unless I had some really pressing need, some “killer app” that required it.
Am I missing something about Firefox on OS X? I have it, of course, but rarely ever use it. Actually, our intranet requires a proxy setting that I don’t like to use and Firefox lets you set those independently of the OS, so I do use it for infrequent trips to the wiki.
I have a lot of bookmarks in Safari, but have long since stopped using them, as I do all of that with del.icio.us – that way, I can get to them from any of the 4 macs I regularly use.
GreaseMonkey sounds kind of cool, but honestly, I doubt I’ll ever use it, unless I had some really pressing need, some “killer app” that required it.
hmmm – I think I need to clarify why I made this move because of my bookmarks…
Basically, my Safari installation was overflowing with bookmarks. I was considering just deleting all of them when I did the Firefox thing. Now, I have an empty bookmarks browser and my Safari inst still has all of the bookmarks should I ever need them…
I never really did adopt del.icio.us properly – i guess this is why I was in this mess to begin with. Ironically, now I’m using del.icio.us full-time because of the Firefox plugin…
Additionally, my online bank didn’t work properly with Safari and Firefox does..
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I never did like Firefox really – but there was so much hype about it I thought it was time I gave it a go. I suspect that it was the PC users who, faced with a proper alternative at last, made all the fuss. But as of now I’m not unimpressed with it and on my main machine 12″ 1.25ghz it’s certainly more stable than Safari…
I’m gonna stick with it for now – I’ll update this entry if I have anything to add as time goes on…
(actually, I just noticed the first thing that doesn’t work in Firefox – Boris’ preview code below the comments entry box
heheh
/me sparks up Firefox 1.5 …
Preview works for me!
Let me get this straight… you switched browsers at least partially to start with a clean Bookmakrs folder?? You do know you can manage your bookmarks in Safari (and Firefox and Camino and and .. they all have pretty advanced bookmark managers). Just create a folder, call it “Backup”, then create another one with today’s date, then dump all you got in there. Voila. Cleaned up bookmarks, and not a one lost!
“Let me get this straight… you switched browsers at least partially to start with a clean Bookmakrs folder??”
erm… yep.
“You do know…”
smartarse… It’s not so much that i didn’t know you could do that, of course I did, but more like my mind wasn’t heading down that particular path… and anyway, like I said… smartarse