Fortunately, Camino adheres to the Apple standard, allowing me to have my cake (having CTRL-N move down one line, as it was Meant To Be) and keyboard-driven browsing. While this sounds minor, it bites me every time. Firefox has apparently overwritten the CTRL-N key to do nothing (overriding the operating system). This is a big deal for me because the Emacs key bindings are deeply ingrained in my fingers (and most of OS X, as it turns out), but Firefox doesn't allow this. This is going to sound odd, but one of the critical things that it supports is the ability to type a partial URL in the address bar (which it will auto-complete) and hit CTRL-N to move the cursor down to the first (or subsequent) matches. Camino is very lightweight (if "feels" lighter than Safari) and it supports my browsing habits. Recently, I stumbled across Camino, which uses the same rendering engine as Firefox, which means that my 2 favorite keyboard shortcuts work. Conversely, one of the things I hate about Firefox are all the plug-ins! I tend to find useful plug-ins and add them, which adds to the weight (and start up time) for the whole browser. I maintain a love/hate relationship because one of the cool things about Firefox is all the plug-ins available. This added to the spacebar to scroll down and shift-spacebar to scroll up and you can get a lot done in a browser without a mouse. I've found my address and never taken my fingers off the home row. From there, I can hit the slash key and start typing "London". In my new mouseless browsing mode, I go to the home page, hit the apostrophe and start typing "contact", hit enter and now I'm on the contact page. How many times do you go to a web site and you know the name of the link you want already? For example, if I need to go to the ThoughtWorks web site to get the address of the London location (this happened earlier today), I know (or can guess) that there is a "Contact" link on the home page, which takes me to a list of offices. The apostrophe does something similar, but it restricts the matches to URLs only. When looking at a web page, the slash starts an incremental find for text within the page. I love the keyboard affordances it provides, especially the slash ("/") and apostrophe ("'") shortcuts. One of my recent tendencies is mouseless browsing. Consequently, after The Productive Programmer came out, I continue to find new ways to make myself more productive. After it's off to the publisher, you can't turn off your interest in the subject. Once you write a book, you become really immersed in the subject matter.
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