Your best buddy has been nagging you for years and there it is... you finally decided to give this mac thingy a try. Believe me with time you will come to love your Mac. But at first it can be VERY difficult because most of us have been Microsoft Windows formatted for so long. Anyway one of the things I found most annoying was to build from scratch a new software library. Let me try to help you with what I found out there. This is a "to be continued" Journal of a Switcher:
- Browser : all you'll ever need is Firefox for mac or the built-in Safari. Google Chrome is not yet available for mac. Opera and others can be great alternatives just like under Windows. I'll use the space here to tell you about my Firefox experience. To be honest, I was a bit disappointed by Firefox 2.0 (don't worry this is nothing compared to my Internet Explorer 6 experience). I found it to crash often and more seriously to be a huge memory monger. Since I have Firefox 3.0 I am totally satisfied. I don't see anything really useful about the big talks nowadays about javascript speed. What I do see is the user friendliness of Firefox 3.0, most specially through all the plugins available out there. Here are the plugins I cant' live without:
- Firegestures : How did we do before ? I can't remember. I use mouse based navigation all the time. But most people I see using Firefox don't even know what it is.
- Adblock Plus : it's not when you install it that you see a real difference but when you remove it. You get so used to browse the net without annoying ads that you really believe internet is really like that... until you remove Adblock and rediscover how bad it has become.
- Tabmixplus: another thing I don't see people use often in Firefox is it's tab feature. Even though tabs are built into Firefox. I've seen a lot of people open as many Firefox windows as they need just as they use to do in the old Internet Explorer days. For those of you who didn't know (after all if everybody just assume that everybody knows... we're going nowhere) if you middle click on a web link while browsing on Firefox, it will open in a tab inside the same Firefox window and you can move between tabs easily. That said, eventhough the built-in tab feature is great, I always use Tabmixplus as a replacement for it's many time saving cool options. Check it out.
- Downthemall : another fine Firefox extension. Downthemall! is a download manager. With it you can fast download as it can split a large file into smaller pieces and download them concurrently, you can also stop and resume downloads, mass download selected files on a page etc. Great tool.
- Foxmarks : If you have more than one computer and care about having the same browsing experience, this is for you. Foxmarks can syncronize your bookmarks across as many Firefox and as many computers as you have. Even works cross platform between a Mac and a Pc. And you can also access you bookmarks at any time if you're not on your computer.
Of course, there are so many extensions (check here) out there that you can spend days testing them. Find the right ones for you.
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