Learning My First Mac

From the beginning, I've been trying to break from my old habits and learn the primary offerings of the Mac. I didn't install Picasa to handle my photo needs (as much as I love it), and I didn't download an alternative browser to replace Safari. For the first few weeks I've been using Safari OK, and especially with this being a brand new computer the speed of the browser feels just as good as any other. I haven't missed the myriad of browser extensions on Firefox primarily because I prefer not to use them; after years of crappy computers, I've learned to love bookmarklets as an alternative light-weight way to provide the value of extensions, and bookmarklets work as expected in Safari. I've had some trouble learning the keyboard shortcuts, just like with everything on the Mac, but once I discovered [control+tab] for quickly sliding through tabs I wasn't horribly disoriented. So why did I download Firefox last night? The Awesome Bar. After years of using Chrome and Firefox on PC's, I fully expect the URL window to act as a smart bar that can handle partial URL's, keywords, and searches seamlessly. Seriously there's no reason why this shouldn't be in Safari also, but it isn't and it drives me crazy. I'm constantly putting searches into the URL form, and getting redirected to a broken page that asks "did I mean to search", with the words now filled in to a search box. It's easy to move forward from there, but I shouldn't have to. And until Safari does something about this, I'm now splitting my time between Firefox and Safari on the Mac. That is until Chrome comes out, which will probably win me over from all browsers just like it did on the PC.