Comments on: Making Firefox for Mac sing the Safari tune

By: bam431

bam431 — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:32:19 +0000

I like Firefox better. That was the first thing i installed on my mac when i got it.

By: Bikalpa Paudel

Bikalpa Paudel — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:49:51 +0000

So Safari 4 sucks enough to get you guys pimping FireFox, eh?

I’ve done this for a while now. Looking at the beta itself didnt make me wanna try the final release. And those niggles like the spinning wheel instead of a progress bar are big enough for me.

I mostly use Opera 10 with Turbo enabled though. Not elegant but has many features and dose the job well. And I have synchronised notes, mail, bookmarks whichever platform I chose, including my mobile.

Perhaps the theme is the only thing I care about.

By: Fábio

Fábio — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:29:21 +0000

Hi all !!

I would like to suggest one add-on for Firefox and one theme:

1. firefox-mac-pdf which uses the PDFKit to open PDF files inside Firefox as Safari do.
http://code.google.com/p/firefox-mac-pdf/

2. Vfox3_Basic: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11227 This theme is very similar to Safari 4.0 final.

By: Mike Vail

Mike Vail — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:31:28 +0000

Thanks for this post. I have been using Firefox since it was Phoenix but since I have been using a Mac for the past year and trying Safari, there were things that are starting to get to me. One is how much space Firefox uses at the top. Even using small icons it takes up more space then in Safari. But I keep staying with Firefox because of the extensions. I believe that alone makes it the best browser on the web.

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Den Fuchs dressieren — bluelectric.org — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:32:19 +0000

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By: FiZ

FiZ — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:13:10 +0000

I used to LOVE firefox, and I still think some of the extensions are great, but my biggest problem is that it doesn’t play nice with Leopard’s Services menu. That, and while it takes less memory for a large number of tabs, it uses far more CPU on my MacBook than Safari does.