Comments on: Firefox Campus Edition.. Say What?

By: BlogTrage » School days: Firefox Campus Edition

BlogTrage » School days: Firefox Campus Edition — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:33:53 +0000

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By: MacTipper

MacTipper — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:51:24 +0000

@Paul I like safari over firefox because of the bookmarks bar shortcut. For the short amount of time that I HAD to use firefox, I found no solution to this. Also, firefox seems to run slow on MY computer. (Macintosh also.) I don't know why this is. In addition, I don't know of a firefox look that I like. If somebody has a firefox look that looks exactly (or close enough) to safari, then I would be interested. Other than that, I understand why people like firefox. When I'm editing my mac tip blog's layout, I have to use firefox because safari isn't quite compatible. That's one major plus for firefox. MacTipper My Mac-Tipping Blog

By: Why Apple’s Safari Is Still a Smart Option

Why Apple’s Safari Is Still a Smart Option — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:41:58 +0000

[...] fan boys/girls. I also offer some tips you may not be aware of. (Parts of this was first posted on Paul’s blog a few days [...]

By: emil

emil — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 21:55:36 +0000

the page looks cool :)
but I wont download, why should I, I already use ff, but Zotero seems nice, I sure gonna try it some day

By: Paul Kim

Paul Kim — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:29:29 +0000

Hey folks – we had a slight delay on our end, but the download is live now.

By: c. wess daniels

c. wess daniels — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:34:46 +0000

Have they decided to not do it?

By: Brandon

Brandon — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:30:59 +0000

Well I see no download link.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:49:05 +0000

That’s looking pretty good!! I’ve always been a big fan of firefox.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:09:58 +0000

*Can’t believe he has been using CTRL+TAB and CTRL+SHIFT+TAB instead of CTRL+1-9 in FF for so long*

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 03:35:08 +0000

@CWD – for me, I find it much easier to switch tabs with Apple + 1-9, which is why I pick ffox. I always use Apple+1 to go back to my first tab, generally gmail, regardless of what tab I’m on.

By: C. Wess Daniels

C. Wess Daniels — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 03:08:04 +0000

well it’s a bummer that it’s still not up yet, I expected they would have posted it by this time.

concerning safari and firefox, I still choose to use Safari, now Beta 3. I think a lot of it just comes down to preference and while safari doesn’t have anywhere near the development that FF does, I think it has some invaluable options.

here’s my little list:
1) hot-keys tied to your toolbar bookmarks. That means the apple key plus a # 1-9 will launch either a javascript or a bookmark/let that is tied to that particular number. This works really well for using apps like Pukka for posting to delicious, as well as quick access to online apps.

2) inquisitor rocks the house, and it’s customizable.

3) Safari 3 is really fast, and I’d have to say it’s just as fast or faster that FF.

4) the new safari beta search is off the hook.

5) It’s lighter on your system resources, which can make a difference when you’re running a lot of stuff.

6) It’s easy to adblock with proxies.

7) It’s easy to switch tabs – apple-shift and left/right brackets.

I am sure there are more reasons that safari rocks but ultimately I know that most of these reasons will never switch the hardcore FF user over to Safari. I do however think these reasons at least make safari a smart contender – not just for the fan-boys.

By: Don Wilson

Don Wilson — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 05:56:51 +0000

More emphasis on “read the whole article before showing my stupidity”. ;)

By: Kabren

Kabren — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 03:51:17 +0000

Every now and then I go back to Safari, but Firefox always draws me back in. Here’s an example…

Thanks for the info!

By: Yannick

Yannick — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:24:35 +0000

So when do we get Firefox “Web Developer” Edition that comes bundled with “Firebug” and “Web Developer Toolbar” so we don’t have to download them separately? :)

By: Pensador

Pensador — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:18:49 +0000

Thanks for the info! I’m big fan for Firefoxâ€”I’ve been using it since Firebird.

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:36:18 +0000

@moz - What's your reasoning behind that? Any specific features of Safari you prefer over Firefox or vice versa? I used to tout Safari/WebKit because of its speed but I eventually went back to Firefox for the wealth of developer tools.

By: moz

moz — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:51:44 +0000

Safari is better then FireFox, and Apple have nothig to do to improve it, because it true. But we always have a choice what solution to use.

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:02:43 +0000

@Don – “You can download Firefox Campus Edition at firefox.com/backtoschool later today. ” emphasis on “later today”

By: Don Wilson

Don Wilson — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:01:54 +0000

Site doesn’t work for me

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:00:17 +0000

@Paul Kim – Thanks for the update!

By: Paul Kim

Paul Kim — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:54:32 +0000

Hey Paul: There is no money changing hands for the Firefox Campus Edition. We are looking at ways to introduce Firefox add-ons to people who might never otherwise have tried them, and reached out to a few add-on developers we thought had created interesting functionality on top of Firefox.

By: Center for Teaching & Learning

Center for Teaching & Learning — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:25:44 +0000

Building an academic, and social, web browser…

Paul Stamatiou points us to the imminent release of Firefox Campus Edition – a “back to school” version of the web browser that comes with a few add-ons geared for students. While only one of the add-ons, Zotero (which we’ve……

By: Bloog.com » Blog Archive » Firefox Campus Edition

Bloog.com » Blog Archive » Firefox Campus Edition — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:11:12 +0000

[...] Mozilla plans to release a special Firefox Campus Edition later today. You can learn more about it from Paul Stamatiou. [...]

By: Abi Jones

Abi Jones — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:19:27 +0000

In May I got my M.Ed. from George Mason University (home of the team that developed Zotero) and I’d never heard of it until just now. That makes me really sad, especially considering that I was in an Instructional (internet-based) Design program.

I used delicious to hold all of my bookmarks, and while it doesn’t have the functionality of Zotero, it does let me see who else bookmarked the same article and lets me look at all of their other bookmarks.

If someone could combine the two I’d be supremely happy.

By: Blake Brannon

Blake Brannon — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:05:50 +0000

Seems like a nice way to get students to start using Firefox. After all, they will be the market when all these IE using baby boomers die. I don’t think I will download it however. Nice post!