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And speaking of Firefox ...

I just went to an interesting, if lightning paced, talk by Robert O'Callahan, who works for the Mozilla Corporation. He showed some pretty damn impressive SVG stuff in the Firefox 3 beta that I haven't seen before. He stressed that the point of Mozilla is to promote an open web, and part of that mission is to try to encourage developers to move away from using proprietary plugin based architecture, such as Flash and Silverlight, to do their cool stuff. That's all very well, but there are powerful authoring tools for Flash (I don't know about Silverlight) and not many for SVG. I didn't manage to ask the question, but I wonder if Mozilla would consider a foray into the world of authoring tools.

John Gruber has switched back to Safari after a dalliance with Firefox 3, and outlined some of the reasons for switching back. It's a feature comparison, and I don't know some of the Safari features or care about some of the Firefox shortcomings he mentions, but there isn't anything in his post that I disagree with. I've used Firefox exclusively for a number of years, and while there are definitely things about it that shit me, I can't see myself using any other browser any time soon. Gruber mentions the reason himself.

Perhaps the biggest difference between Safari and ...

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Performance improvements such as: better data reliability for user profiles, architectural improvements to speed up page rendering, over 330 memory leak fixes, a new XPCOM cycle collector to reduce entire classes of leaks, and reductions in the memory footprint.

• Mozilla Developer News » Blog Archive » Firefox 3 Beta 2 now available for download
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Mozilla has released its 2006 audited financials and that little Google search box in the top right of Firefox is the gift that keeps giving. [...] Mozilla gets 85 percent of its revenue from Google.

• » Mozilla banks Google bucks; Builds a portfolio | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

I hate using a mouse. I much prefer to work with the keyboard. I also do a lot of work in a browser. One of the most useful keyboard shortcuts I've come across in Firefox is the apostrophe. If you want to go to a link, simply type ' and start typing the link text. For example, gootodo doesn't have any keyboard shortcuts, but I can create a new todo by typing 'new and hitting enter. That's quicker than moving my hand to the mouse and moving to the link. You can also go to the detail of a particular ...

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