Firefox

[powermac]

I can't seem to warm up to firefox browser. I like the idea of themes, and play around with those. Generally the look and feel of firefox does not capture me. I use for a short time, and always go back to Safari.
In my opinion next to Safari it is the best browser. It is fast and renders nice. The download window is cumbersome compared to Safari, that is my biggest complaint. How do others feel about firefox?

[fryke]

I personally don't get warm with it either. That's mainly because it just doesn't feel like an OS X application, and I guess that'll never really change. I guess even if it were 3x faster than Safari, I couldn't really live with it as my default browser. I keep it around, though, a) for testing websites against it and b) to look at pages that are rendered incorrectly (or not at all) in Safari/OmniWeb.

[kainjow]

I agree. I used it for a while, but once Safari 1.3 came out, I switched back. Firefox is slightly faster, but I'd rather have the OS X look and feel, and spelling, then a few milliseconds of my time.

[powermac]

Great point Kainjow. Fryke hit it on the head for me, it just doesn't have the OSX feeling, and perhaps that is why I can't warm up to it. Too bad they could not make Firefox a true OSX app, in that case it would rock. Now all we need is to get Apple to write an office app, or update Apple Work, I would be in heaven.

[boyfarrell]

Does anybody else notice the difference in page rendering between Safari and FireFox? Safari seem to have more contrast. For example, you can't see the bottom of the search field box at google; it just blends into the rest of the white page.

Additionally, the buttons are not aqua.

[HateEternal]

Yea its just not the same on the Mac. I use it all the time on my PC but harldy ever on my Mac.

The plugins are awesome, being able to modify the css of the page you are on is so sweet.

[Satcomer]

I feel the same way on a Mac so I went with the more Apple like Cocoa written browsers Camino. I then always get the latest Camino browser nightly build (it is the Mozilla open source Mac centric browser) with CaminoKnight. You can also skin Camino with Camincon. Also if you go to VersionTracker and/or MacUpdate and do a search on Camino you can personalize Camino with you own language plus so much more. This happens because Camino is written in the native OS X language Cocoa.

[boyfarrell]

Is there away to override camino's builtin shortcuts? I find it impossible to hold alt+cmd+right with on hand on my powerbook?