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Well since OSX has a "flow" to it if you will why wouldn't they make it like safari. I know this is hard for apple fans to understand but there is more to a piece of software then how it looks. I'll pause for a moment and let that one sink in... sorry to burst your bubble

I like it! Safari or Firefox 3 - give me extensions!

So if I made a theme that involved potato chips would you submit it saying "Proposed FF3 theme for OS X looks like potato chips?" My point is nobody is assigned to this and there are some submissions. If you don't like it, make a different one.

I think it looks quite nice, it fits the look of newer OSX apps (ie, iTunes, Mail, etc..) and looks like it will blend in nicely with Leopard.

Looks like the skins at http://www.takebacktheweb.org/

It's very nice. They could make the search box plain white also the star in the adress box, then i'd call it a winner.

I like it, looks much nicer than FireFox does today. It's consistent with the rest of OS X finally, and if anything it's nicer looking than Safari.

so?

"This is a tracking bug for the new Mac OS X Theme for Firefox 3."

In other words, they're trying to make the default theme for OS-X look like it's an OS-X app. Don't see the problem here.

Wait so you mean now the app will blend in with the rest of my OS when I use it? The horror! The horrorrrrr!

This is cute. So now no one can claim FF looks worse compared to Safari. In all other areas, it surely defeats Safari.

Yay now it matchs, yeah I'm shallow so what

That first screenshot looks absolutely gorgeous

Seems like Mac Firefox users have consistently complained that Firefox doesn't fit into the OS X theme/style, and have asked for something that looks more Safari like. How dare someone listen to their requests!

Copy. Camino.

I have a PowerBook G4 and I have to say FireFox is WAY slower on that platform than either Safari or Camino (I use Camino). Though the G4 is an older machine, I tend to think that it should run as least as fast as Camino does. They both use the Gecko rendering engine. I tend to wonder how much overhead is taken up the skinnable UI.

It's funny. Apple has released Safari for Windows, and it's FAST. It's page rendering times are really fast on my PC at work. The UI needs a little work, though. The fact that Safari exists on Windows (as well as iTunes), makes me think that Apple has ported the Cocoa framework over to Windows. If GnuStep could get some help from Apple, Cocoa could easily become the development platform of choice for cross platform apps.

I don't know why, but I love this.

Fits in with Leopard and the move away from brushed metal. Even the latest Opera alpha has a similar look. Not sure why people are getting worked up about it.

Firefox is great for development, but why do their form elements look like remnants of Mosaic?

I'd rather see the effort go into Camino. It already has a nice UI, just needs more of the functionality that Firefox has.

Wow, it looks beautiful!

I may switch back to FF if it looks like this (and it launches faster)

I'm using a similar theme right now!

Download here (for Mac only):
http://www.takebacktheweb.org/

that's a fine-lookin' browser.

Hmm.... Why do you people concern yourselves so much with what others like or dislike. It's all really quite simple if you don't like the default look, just install a theme. I have a mac dual booted with vista plus two linux desktops, all use FF as the default browser and I have themes installed on all of them my personal choice is littlefox. Now everyone kiss and makeup especially if your hot chicks.

This is looking great. The current firefox mac theme is a trainwreck.

i think it looks great and i hope they implement it with FF3. im not sure what eveyone is going crazy over its just a theme, its firefox, and you can change it. done. digg me down now.

This could make for a good prank to play on any Mac Safari user. Install Firefox instead, use the Safari theme, and watch in delight as the unsuspecting victim can't figure out why his web browser is suddenly crashing every half hour.

Safari theme for firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/492 ...

putting the stop/reload button between back and forward > copying safari's look

Do we too easily forget that we're on Digg. We have to whine about everything here.

Good. The main things keeping me from using Firefox are:

1. Dog slow compared to Safari
2. Ugly as sin, compared to Safari
3. Safari lets me sync my bookmarks to different computers through .Mac. If that makes me a fanboy, so be it. I'm sure there is an extension to do this in Firefox, but that browser is UI mess.

I *want* to like Firefox more, but I just don't. It's ugly and slow, but sometimes it works for sites that Safari doesn't.

as an interface designer i feel that what they are doing is smart. they say they're responding to user feedback and it should help promote greater adoption on the mac. most people don't realize that customization is something apple looked at seriously and ditched in favor of a unified experience. that's because users want to be productive and the more familiar the experience is the more productive people feel. boring i know, but that's human nature.

Looks great. Better than Firefox 2, which has the worst theme since Netscape Navigator.

Whoa whoa whoa everybody! Firefox 3 will still have that same ol' crappy (though *ever* so versatile) XUL interface you know and love! Sure, it'll *look* like it fits in with Mac OS X, but no worries, it'll still behave like a non-native hoaky pile of crap! ;-)

Grain of salt with everything, people. I'm just glad somebody's paying attention to the Mac OS X version at at all.

Looks really good, but how, pray tell, do they achieve the unified OS X toolbar while using Gecko to render the UI?

Embrace and extend. It's a usability tactic. Instant familiarity for Safari users.

Have you ever seen Safari? That looks nothing like Safari. Other than it is, in fact, a browser.

"If you can't innovate, imitate."

Kinda like what Apple does anyway, amirite? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0UjU0rtavE

I use Safari on the Mac. Firefox renders a handful of pages incorrectly for me. I also hate how Firefox has stupid square buttons and can't follow OS X UI guidelines, its almost as bad as Open Office. FOSS on the Mac sucks ass.

What's the problem?
FF3 will be a Cocoa app, and it just adapts the Cocoa unified-metal interface.

So? It's just a suggestion. buried.

Those bastards!

Um, good? Maybe people like me will actually start using FF then. As much as I appreciate FireFox, I can't stand using it because of the ugly UI. This is better, although there are still some flaws (search bar looks like crap, so does progress wheel). And TBH, I wish FF was written in Cocoa. I realize Cocoa isn't the best language around (heh...) but it would make integration in my life soo much easier...

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Ahh. I've got the whole Safari thing going on right now, too. Only mine uses Tab Sidebar to approximate Omniweb's tab style, which I tend to prefer over the traditional bar at the top. A vertically scrolling list is so much nicer in situations where you've got tab overflow.

http://tinyurl.com/yvwmjo