‘Twas Brillig*

The announcement of Safari for Windows is something I wasn’t expecting and I can’t work out if it is a good thing or not. I dislike Internet Explorer and am happy about the inroads that Firefox has made into marketshare, but can’t help feeling that without a huge advertising campaign another browser is just going to occupy the same kind of niche position opera or, even worse, flock (a browser I like, but with a core which will always be playing catchup with firefox) has.

I guess if one good thing comes out of it (and assuming it has the same rendering engine) people might actually test their websites on it and keep Mac users happy.

I use a lot of tabs in Firefox (33 at the last count) and by default Firefox makes me have scrolling tabs. I tend to navigate via the tab icons rather than title so tabs really don’t need to be very wide. I’ve found that changing the property browser.tabs.tabMinWidth in about:config to 32 seems to do the trick of making the tabs just wide enough for me to see the “favicon”s and the close icon for all my tabs. It is a pity that several sites (including some on work’s intranet) don’t set the icon.

This is why I have greasemonkey installed.