SunriseBrowser for web designers

I use the firefox webdev kit too but honestly, something about sunrise makes it nicer when you're checking your site and such.
Runs a little faster in my opinion and is very minimal on pixel real estate.
Not a must have but definitely worth a try.

Whoops... should read @9 ^

@ 8
I use the exact theme you reference, Adam. While the theme is a definite improvement over the default- the underlying 'ugly' is as you realize....Firefox is not native to our machine.

( The optimized version has been a crash prone headache for me in the past, but I'll give it another shot.)

With this relevation regarding Leopard, and until Camino has the webdev and firebug plug-ins, nothing will come close to Firefox; the alternatives (ie the browser in this article) seem to muddy the water. I'm sure I'll get used to the beast but I'm not happy about it.

And thanks for the links, I appreciate it.

^ powerbookG4 1.25gb 1.5ghz

Firefox is dog-slow and doesn't use Mac-standard keyboard shortcuts.

It's not an option.

@8: of course I'm aware of that. However, this could be down very slickly as follows: have it do a keyword search if you hit RETURN and have it do a Google (etc.) search if you hit, e.g., OPT + RETURN

Firefox is ugly? Are you guys serious? I mean, hey, you hate the default theme. Fine, it certainly wasn't designed with a Mac in mind. Hook up a new theme, guys. GrApple (http://www.takebacktheweb.org/) basically makes it Apple friendly and you can get drop-in widget kit replacements like Firefoxy (http://www.amake.us/software/firefoxy/) which will give you Philippe Wittenberg's awesome widget kit, or you can grab a community optimized build of Firefox with a standard Aqua widget kit from Neil (http://www.beatnikpad.com/archives/2007/02/24/firefox-2002). My own community builds use Philippe's kit, cause I like it better, Neil builds a version for each.

bfad (#2), who needs Command-L + Tab? Option-Command-F gets you directly to the Google search bar.

Article author, combo address/search field is a bad idea: Does a TUAW contributor actually still type full URLs? :-) Are you not aware that many/most URLs don't require full typing? Try entering simply "target," "apple," or "tuaw" (in the address bar).... If the fields were combined, how would the browser know that you *don't* want a Google search in these cases?

#7, I agree. But although I love Firefox's features, I can't use it; can't get past the "ugly."

Leopard will not be supporting Safari plug-ins.
http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/an-end-to-browser-pimping

It's time for designers to officially ditch Safari in favor of the ugly yet functional beast that is Firefox.

Sogudi (http://www.andrewburke.orcon.net.nz/mac/sogudi.htm) is a great freeware addon to enhance the Safari address bar. You can set it up so that simply entering a space and then a word or phrase, will cause a Google look up of that word or phrase.

Keywords followed by phrases will bring up everything from movie reviews to currency conversion.

This sounds like an ad, but it's not -- I'm just a happy user!

YEah im with you guys on Firefox. The only thing that sounds really useful is the pdf of the entire page. But honestly i dont need that so much although itd be nice to have. Not to mention it uses webkit. Thats almost an inconsequential share of the market... and if it doesnt render EXACTLY like safari then its completely irrelevant. The only benefit to this is the ohter features described which all come for firefox via add-ons.