Brad,

In Safari, hold OPTION and right-click link. Click “Download linked file as…” and choose a location.

In Camino, right-click link. Click “Download Lnk Target…” and choose a location.

In Opera, click any download link and you’ll be given the choice of where to save the file.

Firefox’s download manager doesn’t help you out any: it claims “All files downloaded to (name of folder)” which isn’t true when you’ve just downloaded 50 files into 50 different folders.

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I want to like Firefox but it just feels heavy on my oldish 867 PowerBook with 512mb of RAM.

Ahhh I can’t change my skin back, there is no file ect. above the address bar!

I hate this skin, I can’t read the RSS, Google Toolbar don’t work anymore…how can I uninstall this?

Themes are not functionality; they are lipstick on a pig.

Firefox does not behave anything like 99% of other Mac applications. It does not support any Cocoa services, its drag and drop support is poor, and it uses a completely wacko sense of file associations (like associating downloaded .zip files with Stuffit Expander instead of Apple’s non-shareware extractor). Firefox uses the same “click-and-hold means control-click” mechanism from Netscape 4, and it feels every bit as out of place now as it did then. Show me one other application (besides another Mozilla app) that behaves that way.

I really wish Camino were still in active development. Without the cruft of themes and XUL interface design, it looks and performs wonderfully.

On a site like 43folders where Cocoa poster-children OmniOutlier and QuIcKs|Lv3r are paraded around as lifesaving tools, to advocate Firefox for Mac is just silly.

[…] Det har en fyr der går under navnet Aronnax gjort noget ved og skabt en række themes til Firefox, som får den til at ligne OS X en smule mere. Jeg er selv blevet noget mere glad for Firefox efter jeg opdagede temaerne. […]

They say they’re for Mac OS X Firefox, but when I try to install any of the themes, I get the error, “could not be installed because it is not compatible with Firefox 1.5.0.1…will only work with Firefox versions from 1.4.1 to 1.6.” This is not the first time I’ve run up against Firefox’s lame extension and theme version detector.

Firefox for OSX reall does suck. Hard.

I use Camino (It is in active development) and Safari most of the time, occasionally using Shiira (Webkit based, feature rich) and SunriseBrowser (WebKit Stickies, basically).

I use Firefox bery rarely, and quit it immediately when I’m done with it. The only reason to use it would be extentions, and most of them are broken on the Mac.

I’m still hopelessly devoted to Camino’s nightlies. Paired with CamiOptions, it’s (almost) as functional as a Firefox install loaded with some of the more popular extensions.

That being said, these themes do help somewhat in making Firefox more palatable when I do need to check something there.

If someone can show me a browser, other than Firefox, that allows me to pick where I download a file to on a per-file basis, I will switch. Until then, Safari, Camino, and Shiira will not replace Firefox on my Mini.