![]() ![]() ![]() Flashblock forces Flash objects to display in a box that you choose to activate. Rather than block ads entirely, I prefer to reign them in the way I’ve long done in Firefox with the Flashblock extension, and in Camino via CamiTools. But I do hate garish, outrageously moving attention-hijackers that run uncontrollably. I can’t oppose Internet advertising in general-it pays my salary. When I noticed the Opera process sucking CPU cycles when not in use, I had to deep-six that ho. And its ten-second-plus startup time on modern hardware just doesn’t make sense. CLICKTOFLASH SAFARI MAC OS XBut its Mac OS X appearance and behavior are borderline. Opera has some very nice features that preserve the user’s work (open sites, filled form fields), and its type rendering is pretty good. Having had enough of Camino’s clumsy Gecko rendering, I switched to Opera several months ago. Because the developers of the Web’s most famous rendering engine are not particularly interested in Web typography (what?), solutions to the problem are always slated to be in the “next major version.” And if that next major version is a bullshit release (like Firefox 2.0) that is pushed out to distract from more important things happening elsewhere (like Internet Explorer 7) then too bad for the Internet! But Camino is powerless in the face of the immortal Gecko hyphen bug-no-“feature”-well-um-whatever-you-say-but-it-just-sucks. And it starts up so fast I’d swear someone sold his soul to the devil. ![]() Everything outside the content area is kosher. It wedges in Web form controls that sort of look right. In contrast, the Mac-only Camino browser tries hard to smooth over its underlying Gecko engine. It’s great for coding and testing your own sites with the benefit of third party extensions, but otherwise it’s pretty unpleasant to use. Because of their indifference to the Mac build of Firefox, and to anything outside the central clique’s sensibilities, Firefox on Mac will always have rough edges. When I switched from Safari to Camino last year I mentioned my longstanding grudge against the Firefox project. I go through browsers like I used to go through brands of breakfast cereal. ![]()
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