{"id":265,"date":"2008-05-27T15:52:29","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T15:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntucat.wordpress.com\/?p=265"},"modified":"2008-05-27T15:52:29","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T15:52:29","slug":"why-is-firefox-in-windows-better-than-firefox-in-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/why-is-firefox-in-windows-better-than-firefox-in-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Firefox in Windows better than Firefox in Linux?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like Firefox. I use it at work. I use it at home. I get annoyed when I have to use other people&#8217;s computers and they don&#8217;t have Firefox installed. I have to say, though, as a three-year Linux user, that Firefox on Linux sucks, and that there&#8217;s absolutely no good reason for this suckage. <\/p>\n<p> Here&#8217;s what sucks about Firefox on Linux: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Flash crashes<\/b>. Yes, I know this is an Adobe problem and not a Firefox (or Ubuntu or whatever distro you use) problem, but it&#8217;s still a problem, and it&#8217;s annoying. It sucks. There are generally times of stability. Every now and then, though, Flash will crash on you. I&#8217;ve found this often happens when you have a lot of tabs open and try to close the last tab that&#8217;s open that has Flash embedded in it.\n<li> <b>Tab jumping uses Alt instead of Control<\/b>. In Windows, it&#8217;s cool to jump to the fifth tab by pressing Control-5 or to jump to the second tab by presing Control-2. In Linux, you have to press Alt-5 or Alt-2. Not as cool. It makes for awkward hand positioning, where I have to took my thumb or pinky under my hand.\n<li><b>Click doesn&#8217;t select the whole URL<\/b>. This doesn&#8217;t bother me that much, as I generally use keyboard shortcuts (F6 or Control-L), and I know the setting can be changed in about:config, but a lot of new users get confused and frustrated by this behavior, and it&#8217;s annoying for it not to be the default.\n<li><b>Flash interrupts scrolling<\/b>. If you have a middle-scroll button or finger-scroll touchpad, your cursor will stop dead in its tracks when it hits an embedded Flash element. Doesn&#8217;t happen in Windows, just Linux.<\/ul>\n<p> I guess that&#8217;s it. It&#8217;s not as bad as I thought it would be&mdash;a rather short list, but the Adobe Flash-related ones are particularly annoying. Ah, Adobe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like Firefox. I use it at work. I use it at home. I get annoyed when I have to use other people&#8217;s computers and they don&#8217;t have Firefox installed. I have to say, though, as a three-year Linux user, that Firefox on Linux sucks, and that there&#8217;s absolutely no good reason for this suckage.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/why-is-firefox-in-windows-better-than-firefox-in-linux\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why is Firefox in Windows better than Firefox in Linux?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,23,24],"tags":[134,911,921],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-ubuntu","category-web-browsers","category-windows","tag-firefox","tag-linux","tag-windows","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}