Thank you bloggers Mac Fans and Mozillators

Another one I miss from Safari is Apple + Up and Apple + Down to go to the top and bottom of a long page instantly.

Now if only everyone would do that…
or maybe if you can just add that javascript to the mozilla .js file. Kind of like how they implemented nicetitles….

it’s definitely worth a try.

Mike D: Well, drat, I just played around with the keyboard shortcut preferences in the OS X System Preferences. Unfortunately, it looks like you can’t assign Backspace (the big Delete key) or any key combination including it. Have you looked into one of the keyboard programs like uControl or DoubleCommand? I’m not positive that they’d be able to handle what you need, but they might be worth checking out.

Personally, I agree with Greg about Cmd-LeftArrow/RightArrow to move back and forward. I’ve been using those since Netscape 4 because I go forward almost as much as I go back. Particularly when comparing different versions of a design (though that’s changed lately with tabs.)

It seems kind of pedantic to me, but I guess the Mac hard-liners want their own arrangements. I expect that this will become an option once some basic keyboard command support is introduced soon. I haven’t seen any extension for this per se, but I image that if it bugs you it must bug somebody else also, look around on places like extensionsmirror.nl and maybe you’ll come up lucky.

The aquafication release for Firefox (originally called 1.0Mac) was dropped in favor of doing all of the changes at once in Firefox 1.1 (when aviary-branch will merge back into the Mozilla trunk) and little issues like this and other Mac-only fixes are on the list for then.

Then i’m sure you already knew that.

Here is the one that really gets me though. I ALWAYS have used my scroll wheel push down button to open links in a new tab. That does not work for Firefox Mac… soooooo annoying.

Mag: Thank you for the thorough and informative comment. Good to know it’s on someone’s plate somewhere. I don’t so much mind that it’s not a default for the backspace key to work in this fashion as you could easily argue that command-arrow is a better habit to get in, but damn… it should at least be an option. I’ll probably just use Safari until this glorious “aquafied” version is released.

Although this seems like a really small interface shortcoming to some, it’s a good lesson in how difficult it is to get people to break browsing habits. Even though I’m already past the tough part of actually wanting to use Firefox, I simply can’t make the switch because the browser is asking too much of me.

If you want me on board, get rid of all reasons for me not to be.