Scrolling over Flash content doesn’t make any bad for me, just move the cursor to the scrollbar (maximum Firefox window), then I can scroll freely.

sudo mkdir -p /etc/firefox
sudo cat “XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1″ > /etc/firefox/firefoxrc

I tryied, it’s works! Hope it’ll helpfull for you guys!

Love Linux, love Firefox!

-I far and away prefer alt instead of ctr for this purpose, and don’t find that hand position awkward at all. Perhaps it should be mentioned that I play piano and guitar, and ma thus used to some hand positions others would find very awkward? In any case, I relish the use of alt for this purpose.

-I prefer it to not select the whole URL. Double clicking is not a problem to select it all when I want to, but having the entire thing highlight when I only want a portion is a pain.

-I don’t have that problem.

I do have Firefox crash occasionally, though. Probably more than in Windows, but not enough to be noticeable to me.

After all, one of the huge advantages of Firefox is how well it handles a crash. I just start it up again, and I’m golden.

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Another thing I can’t understand, except the points you already wrote down, is the differences between “Preferences”. Why is this stored in “Edit” in Linux and not in Windows?

Dont thrust firefox down our throats

Flash scrolling appears to also affect swfdec, so it’s not just adobe’s flash here. Not sure whether java is also affected as I don’t have that installed right now.

Tab via alt instead of control is probably because a number of standard linux apps follow the same scheme, irssi for example. Same goes for the urlbar issue, gtk widgets behave that way, so firefox on linux behaves that way for the sake of consistency. Basically, the mozilla devs have chosen consistency with the host environment over consistency across environments. I for one support this decision, but I realize its a largely subjective issue.

On the tab jumping, I usually just use ctrl-tab, so I’ve never even noticed that difference.

I haven’t experienced the scrolling past Flash problem. That’s just weird.

And as far as click-selecting the URL, that kind of weirded me out at first, but I find that I need to click a part of the URL about as often as I need the whole thing, so in either configuration it’s not the desired behavior a significant portion of the time. So it’s not really something that bothers me, other than just adjusting to the difference.

Regarding using other people’s computers without Firefox installed, that’s what Firefox Portable is for. The awesome thing about that is that you can just pick up your profile directory, whether it’s from XP, Linux, or Mac, and copy it right onto the Flash drive and have all of your extensions/bookmarks/settings copied over with no fuss.

Even though I know in theory that other browsers are “better” than Firefox, I always find myself switching back to Firefox. It’s unstable and a memory hog, but I love its interface and am just used to it.