Geeks done good

[bcholmes]

So, I finally installed Firefox on my home machine (I've been a Netscape user for a long, long time, for both e-mail and browsing). I've had Firefox on a number of work machines, and love a lot of its features (highlighted address bar for HTTPS servers, the way find is handled, etc.), but I've avoided the switch because of the amount of stuff I'd hafta move over: bookmarks, pop-ups settings, etc.

So I've finally installed both Firefox and Thunderbird. And they did such a good job copying over my settings from Netscape that I didn't have to log in to LiveJournal in the new browser.

Man, why can't all programmers be like these guys?

Comments

[erik]

I had a similar experience installing Firefox; it migrated everything over just fine from IE (I had been using Opera mostly; Firefox didn't even admit it saw Opera on my machine at all...). It did act a little odd when I logged out of LiveJournal to let someone else log in; they couldn't stay logged in. I finally had to blow away the cookies.

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

They fouled a few things up here and there (which I'm sure you'll run into), but overall did an excellent job.

[indefatigable42.livejournal.com]

Nargh. Jealous. My computer isn't getting along well with Firefox... I'm going to have to uninstall and reinstall a pile of stuff in order to make it work. Probably in a very specific order, too.

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

It doesn't transfer anything from any of the popular Mac apps in the Mac version, unfortunately. That's been a real kicker for me in terms of any possibility of migrating to Thunderbird.

I'm using Firefox right now on my Mac at home at sort of a trial. No major issue so far, although I suspect that Safari may have all the features that I like about Firefox while still being faster. It's a tough call. I use Firefox at work, though, so there's some appeal there.

One problem is that PopCap Games' "BookWorm" locks up Firefox. I don't know if it does it to the PC version, but it does on the Mac. This is especially irksome because I usually have a zillion tabs open, so a brower lock also loses me all my open tabs.