Why I don’t use Firefox
Tim Bray is asking why he shouldn’t switch to using Firefox instead of Safari. There certainly are a number of compelling reasons to switch, but I have a few personal reasons not to switch:
- Scroll-wheel-click doesn’t open a new tab. I know I can still right-click and open a link in a new tab, but you know what? I really like using scroll-wheel-click for this, so I probably won’t use Firefox full-time until it does this.
- The delete key doesn’t go back in the browser’s history. Another thing I’m used to from Safari (and IE and Netscape/Mozilla, I think)
- In Safari, the bookmarks on the bookmarks bar can be opened with Cmd-1…Cmd-0. I’ve put several bookmarklets up there and can access them with command keys. This is super cool and Firefox doesn’t support this.
Uh…that’s really all I’ve got. It really is a nice app, in many ways superior to Safari, I just don’t like to change the way I work, I’d rather change the application to fit the way I want to work.
Note to all software developers out there: user interface issues will keep people from using your produce, especially if there’s a good enough alternative.
