Finnie on Firefox

Scot Finnie writes a characteristically exhaustive review of Firefox. In general, he gives it a big thumbs-up, as I do. But he misses a few points – or more accurately, he’s missing a few extensions.

Scot says, “You can’t change the order of Firefox’s tabs. They appear in the order they’re created. The ability to reposition them using drag-and-drop is an obvious omission that Mozilla should rectify.” Already fixed: Get the miniT (drag+indicator) extension.

“You can’t leave tabs open when you close the browser and have them reappear automatically the next time you launch Firefox. … You can’t name and save sets of tabs to be reopened later.” You need the TabBrowser Extensions.

In fact, as Scot’s review points out, the wide availability of extensions is the greatest strength of Firefox. In its default configuration, it handles about 90% of my browsing needs, and extensions handle most of the rest. There are only a small number of specific instances where I need to use IE anymore (notably SharePoint sites).