Firefox 3 to be more integrated with OS

But Safari and Camino are not a patch on Firefox when it comes to real-word useablity for me. use several greasemonkey scripts, especially for gmail, and I also use the del.icio.us menu plug-in in place of my bookmark menu. I find these things invaluable and can live with the UI quirks of FF for the sake of them.

You can put a dress on a pig, but its still a pig. The reason I use Camino over FireFox is much more than looks. Firefox just performs too poorly and integrates too poorly on a Mac for day-to-day use.

If they fix the start up problem (2 minutes of constant bouncing on a 1.66GHz Intel Core Duo Mac mini w/ 1GB Ram) I'll be happy. Safari 3 loads fine, I'm staying with it.

Native web widgets (form buttons etc) are already in the nightly builds and look great.

I use Safari 3 with Safari Block (but safariblock won't work in Leopard because it doens't have inputmanger support)

FF isn't fast enough and is ugly...

Yeah, I don't know what these guys were thinking. If we didn't care what our apps looked like or how they functioned, we'd all be using Windows & IE and no one would need Firefox. So, their argument for making it look/work similarly across platforms is ridiculous.

Much props for finally doing native apps, though! I can't wait to see how FF3 turns out.

Cheers,
FL

The biggest issues with Firefox and making it look okay on MacOSX is that when you add plugins that change the ui, things go very weird and not at all usable (or even aesthetically nice). I think there is a fundamental issue unless you're willing to compromise somewhere.

I'd much rather, they set about better framework integration so that Mac OS features like the Services menu etc. was really usable from within Firefox.

I'm looking forward to the final release of Safari in a few days. Hopefully it'll fix the memory problems, and also work with Google's offerings a little better.

As for FF, it doesn't support the 'hover cursor over a word and press ctrl+cmd+d to see a quick definition' feature that Safari does :(

Maybe they'll fix the memory leaks in the OS X version finally. Both Firefox (and Camino) sucks on OS X compared to its Windows and Linux counterparts. I love Mozilla, but why can't it run as smoothly (especially when using the flash plug-in) as Webkit based browsers on OS X? I'd take the crummy interface with a fixed engine every time.

If you want more concept shots, take a look at the following link:

http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3/Theme/MacOSX