Firefox 2.0 – will I ever go back to Safari?

Unfortunately, this is the truth – it looks and performs greatly. It’s Firefox 2.
I just installed it, (yes it’s a “boring” saturday afternoon, just me and my mac) and found out some new and old features… I was particularly missing the possibility of having dropdown folders on the bookmark bar (like in Safari), and now we’ve got that!! But there’s many other features taken from other cool browsers like the Oslo based Opera..

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I also never used that much the search engines, which are so cool!!

ad-hoc-searches

Lots and lots of old and new plugins and addons!!

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I’m particularly amazed by the Coliris extension: indeed a revolution in the browsing experience:

Cooliris is a set of free browser extensions that gives you the power to quickly preview the underlying content of links without clicking. Simply rest your mouse over a link and see the content immediately. No more clicking back and forth! Cooliris lets you browse the web faster. Pre-fetches your links so you can preview it without clicking.Reduces Back button clicks and dead link visits.

In the image below I’m reading a blog, using the ctrl+mouseOver feature on the comments link, and et-voila a pop up comes out with the link-contents. You can also select stuff on it. If u don’t like, just move the mouse away, click something else and it’ll disappear. Cool!!!!!

Coliris

These guys have also produced another yammy product: PicLens. It’s an extension for viewing images on a web page in full screen, like with your preferred slideshow-software!!!! For now, it only works on safari :-) In the image below, I’m browsing my pictures collection on Flickr.
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I’ve decided, Safari for image-purposed and free-time browsing, firefox for all the rest…

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