Alex Hutnik › Comments

Yes, Firebug is indispensable. In Safari, I just Command-T, Tab to open a new tab and tab to the Google search bar. I'm using Safari 4 and it's lightning fast. - Alex Hutnik

You can also command+L to get to the address bar and then tab 1x over to the google search. - Frankie Warren

Firebug makes firefox slow. I got rid of all extensions. - Paul Buchheit from BuddyFeed

Agreed, Paul. Unless I'm actually doing web development, I don't activate it. Some people I guess are *always* doing development work :) - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Yeah. I only use it when I'm debugging, but I don't turn it off. Maybe I'll only use it inside my dev VM and nix it from my most frequently used FF instance - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

It's ⌘⌥F (hidden in the Edit > Find submenu). If you want, you could use System Preferences' keyboard shortcut editor to change it to ⌘K. I usually just ⌘L,⇥ though (even in Firefox). - Andrew Witte

This should be possible: most UI elements in Mac OS X are scriptable or shortcutable. I'm currently restoring my computer so I can't give specific instructions yet, but a good place to check is in the keyboard system preference pane. - Mark Trapp

I once started Firefox with "firefox -p" and created a profile without extensions. - Claudio Cicali ♋

FF way too slow try Chrome - Thomas Power

I really don't like Safari. It doesn't actually feel fast to me. I am sure the rendering engine is fine, but the rest of it is so sexy and animated that it makes everything seem slower. Even opening new tabs in the new version feels slow for me. Can't wait until Chrome is released for Mac OS. - Bret Taylor

Even disabling firebug doesn't completely fix the slowness. I used to run two separate firefox instances, but now I've just stopped using firebug. - Paul Buchheit from BuddyFeed

I use Chrome for day-to-day surfing, and Firefox for development. After trying Chrome, I never looked back on Firefox due to slowness. - Ivan Zuzak

How you do it in Safari: Command - L and then Tab. That sends you to the location bar and then tab to the Search bar. (And Frankie beat me to it) - Louis Gray

Command + Option + F for Safari search bar - Mayuresh Walke

I'll try disabling Firebug and only enable it when necessary. - Benjamin Golub

To elaborate on what Andrew Witte and I suggested, go to System Preferences, then into Keyboard & Mouse, then into the Keyboard Shortcuts, click the plus sign, select Safari from the application drop-down menu, use "Google Search..." for the Menu Title, and pop in any shortcut you want. Changes take effect immediately. - Mark Trapp

disabling firebug for most domains is the first step, also, if you're using 3.0 try 3.1 (currently in beta), big performance improvements across the board - Louis Simoneau

I find web inspector in Safari as good as firebug for my development. Having said that, FF 3.1 as pointed out by Louis, is definitely lighter than FF 3.0, however, Safari wins the performance game hands down. - Karthick R

@Paul - Curious as to what you use for DOM, Javascipt/CSS debugging? - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

I thought it was just me, but yeah Firefox is slow on both Windows and Linux. I use Windows at work and there are almost job-saving extensions that I use in Firefox that I couldn't live without (Showcase Sidebar mainly because I have to monitor 5 sites at once). If it wasn't for that I'd be using Chrome on Windows. On my home systems (all use linux) there is no chrome yet, and quite frankly I'm not impressed with the other browser choices. Opera is just....bleh...Chrome needs extensions plain and simple - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ