news.softpedia.com — Mozilla’s Firefox is one of the most popular browsers out there; however, Mac users don’t love it nearly as much as they could. One of the main reasons why this happens is the lack of an OS X look and feel for the application. Fortunately, it looks like the developers have listened to the users.... Yah!
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tekz0rMay 20, 2007
Title is misleading. I hoped it would mean a unification of the controls used in FF functionality. The mofo should try to unify the command/alt(option)/control functions to match *nix/windows versions of Firefox.May just be one of my peeves, but it's damned annoying to have to use command+tab to switch tabs, but control+f to search pages.
neondietMay 20, 2007
It's nice to see the Firefox team are eliminating more of the hurdles that get in the way of people's reasons for not using it. I used to find its mouse-wheel scrolling un-viewable compared to Safari, but 2.0.0.3 has fixed that. Now the only remaining feature that drives me back to Safari is lack of integration with the native OS X dictionary. This manifests itself in two ways:- Words that I "learn" to spell in other applications, which Safari honors are ignored in Firefox.- I'm a big user of the "Ctrl-Command-D" hot-key combination to activate OS X's mini dictionary widget. You use it by hovering the mouse over a word you want to know the meaning of and hitting Ctrl-Command-D. Up pops it little bubble widget under the word with its (OS X built in) dictionary explanation. Great little tool for expanding the mind. Firefox doesn't have access to this and I've not spotted an extension yet for it.Safari in Leopard (10.5) is going to make it harder for Firefox to compete too, given its speed increases and additional functionality. Having said that, no self respecting OS X geek is going to be caught dead using a machine that doesn't have both Safari and Firefox on it. I always have both, though my girlfriend only has Safari on hers.
kelmonMay 20, 2007
A self-respecting OS X geek would be running Camino rather than Firefox unless there is an extension for Firefox that they need. Camino is the Firefox rendering engine wrapped by a true Mac application whereas Firefox is practically a Windows application in disguise. With the exception of Opera, which I believe has the same problem, I can't think of another application on the Mac where I need to set my network settings within the application itself rather than in Network Preferences. Since Windows has no concept like Network Preferences and its Locations, Network Preferences is not supported on the Mac despite its existence.The Dictionary support missing from Firefox is another problem that you've identified and my other annoyance is the lack of support for Keychain Services for the storage of passwords and certificates. Both of these, of course, are supported by Camino...
Closed AccountMay 20, 2007
This is wrong, mac combo boxes jump on keypress too, actually they do it better than windows because windows only listens for the first letter while standard osx combo boxes let you type a word and it will jump to that exactly
Closed AccountMay 20, 2007
you can style button tags, labels and text fields already.Wheres the problem?