As a proud Mac owner I (thankfully) don't have to suffer through using Internet Explorer. Unless I am testing websites that is :( I've switched to a mac about a year ago. One huge problem I have had is the Firefox implementation under OSX. You might know it was a memory hog, but its performance under OSX is awful! But for developing web sites its great. It might be how I use it but I see the spinning wheel of death every time I change tabs. At one point I found some tweaks that helped (not checking for safe sites, limiting your browsing history) but I always felt it was some small bug that caused the performance problem I was seeing.

Enter Mozilla's latest deployment of firefox. Firefox 3 Beta 2. It runs unreal. I guess I don't need to purchase that shinny new skinny mini machine apple just came out with. It's been very stable so far and I have only seen a few minor issues with sites. Biggest problem is javascript problems. Yahoo mail doesn't work and portions of ebay are broken as well. Nothing major except yahoo mail - and I can run the old version of mail fine.

A couple of things. Firebug is a extension that I simply couldn't live without. The developer is working a new version but these guys have already got one http://fireclipse.xucia.com/ in beta that works great. Next your gonna want to use different profiles so you can go back to the previous version for whatever reasons. Mostly because your plugins won't work with the latest version. To do this from a terminal navigate to where your firefox is installed (/Applications). "cd Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/" then "./firefox -ProfileManager" a new screen will pop up. Click the create profile button and follow the directions.

You won't be disappointed!

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