Preview of Firefox with OS X native form widgets

Please tell me that this means that password form elements will now have the standard dot character replacement! I don't know why but the asterisk style replacement bugs me so much that it's the one reason I don't use firefox on my mac.

"Am I the only one who recognizes what a huge security leak keychain really is?"

What?

All the entries stored in the keychain are triple DES encrypted and can NOT be accessed without the account password. The only 'huge security leak' is not having a secure password, and that goes for far more than just keychain. Even if for some reason you can't use a secure password for your login, nothing is stopping you from creating a separate default keychain with a secure password and using that.

Personally, I keep my keychain on a USB drive which means I have secure access to all my logins/passwords on whichever Mac I happen to be using. I also store bank details and credit card numbers as secure notes in my keychain.

The Mac OSX Keychain is one of the most underrated tools on the Mac and is certainly not a huge security leak.

Danny-choo,
It looks like unstyled widgets appear in an OSX-native way, but those styled with CSS appear as they do in FF2. For example if I style a submit button to have a green background and a 1px solid black border - there is none of the OS X bevelling / translucency. Personally I hope it stays this way, because to me, it's the right solution.

Beatnikpad optimized build w/Firefoxy + one of Aronnax's FF themes gives you a damn close integration. If you install UNO, you can even install the Grapple UNO theme, which merges the tabs into the bookmarks bar in the same way that Safari looks.

Themes: http://www.takebacktheweb.org/

Not a mac user, but as usual I'll admit that looks sexy



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If it crashes less than twice a day, it will be a huge improvement over 2.0 for me.

@15, Thad:

Great, now I've got to dig out all of my '80s AHIG books.

Glad to hear you're with me, no matter the course! ;)

Cheers,
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I don't know much about this widget stuff, so I have a question...

Besides appearance, how is this beneficial to mac users? Does it make Firefox open faster? Because that is pretty much my only gripe with it, not what the font of the "search" button looks like haha.

Camino's UI seems rigid and frustrating compared to being able to completely modify Fx's UI. That's why I don't use Camino. Stiff UI. The optimized builds of Fx run just as fast to me on my MBP.

That said, bring on improvements already. It seems like Firefox 3 has been in development forever.

Thad, thanks for clearing that one up for me. I've know there were different types of Widgets, but not being a developer I wasn't sure about the difference :-) I'm glad I use Bon Echo with the aqua form widgets, haven't had to deal with the boxiness for a while. and now I know what that means!