Firefox and Blogdrive rant

Firefox appears to be one of the "better" browser with additional features and allows installation of Plugins. I love using it and it's my prefered browser for many reason, mainly due to it's tabs ability. Allowing me to open several window at the same time.

I don't use Opera much despite it's amazing ability in memory management. It lacks many basic feature a web-browser should have.

MSIE, the most commonly used browser, is still the BEST browser around. It's more stable and have better support for most website on the internet. I don't use it only because it doesn't support tabs.

So, that leaves Firefox. Although it's my most prefered web browser, I HATE It.

There's so many thing wrong with it, it can't find or search within textareas. It takes a long time to start up. It always have problem with memory management (crash easily). And it CRASH anytime it feels like it.

Worst of all, it always crash when I'm trying to load Blogdrive's WYSIWYG Entry Editor. WTF?

it's nothing wrong with Blogdrive's Editor, rather it's firefox not being able to support the complexity of Blogdrive' s editor.

Damn you FIREFOX! Would you for once, not crash at all?

Tags: Firefox, Blogdrive, WYSIWYG, browser,

Firefox Find feature not working in textarea

One of the thing I dislike most about Firefox is the inability to use the find function within textareas. This is very annoying when it comes to editing php/js codes or templates which have very lengthy and complicated structures.

The Find (Ctrl+F) is especially useful to skim through a large number of words to get to the specific terms easily. I use it all the time either surfing, reading, or coding.

So, a little search on google I found this:
http://www.geektronica.com/2005-11-10-firefox-find-doesnt-work-in-textareas
http://www.liewcf.com/blog/archives/2004/10/firefox-pr10-cannot-search-in-textarea/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252371 (official bug report)

So (again) why isn't it implemented? Are they disabled on purposed for some sort of security reasons? Or is it just like what the other guy said that they just haven't fixed it?

It's really annoying when I can't get things done due to limitations. And it have a very serious performance hit. The only way I can get this done is to "View Source" and find through the source code. It doesn't work all the time especially when it comes to situations with escape HTML tags such as &lt;(<) &gt;(>) &quot;(")

Does anybody know if there's a fix / greasemonkey-hack / firefox-extension
that I can download?

Tags: Firefox, Find, Textarea, Search, View Source,