Backpack extension for Firefox

David, I agree. I guess I'm lazy to check it with Little Snitch running. I'll just wait a bit to see if there'll be smoke and install it at a later date. The widget looks mighty fine though :)

Mirko: yea but the user name and API key get saved locally, it's not like the extension author needs it transmitted back to them for any reason. An app like Little Snitch should catch any transmission like that, and I'm sure someone would notice and call foul pretty quickly.

I don't feel comfortable entering my Backpack API into any add-ons or widgets not made and/or supported by the 37signals (the makers of Backpack). As it's stated on your Backpack account page, anyone that has your API will be able to access your account. You can change your password but this stays the same.

A few things: * the Backpack widget is much better than the Firefox extention * don't get caught up in the Carbon vs. Cocoa thing: Carbon apps can access all of the same goodies that Cocoa apps can, and in some cases, more * while I like Firefox, it's unlikely to run as smoothly has Safari does on Mac OS X. It's already a great browser; there are lots of goodies coming--see http://webkit.opendarwin.org/ * the reason Apple picked KHTML and not Gecko (Mozilla's engine) is that Gecko was big and bloated and KHTML is lean and fast * Safari passes the Acid2 test today; we're still waiting on Firefox. See http://www.webstandards.org/act/acid2/

Firefox certainly could if Apple were using it as the platform for Safari.

Yea but Firefox doesn't play with any of OS X's built-in services like the spell-checker or text summarizing. It's great that Firefox has all these cute extensions available, but it has to be written in Carbon to make it easily portable between other OS's which rules out all these other great fundamental systems and functions that Apple has provided.

Wouldn't Safari be so much better if it were Firefox? Yes, yes it would.