Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 30th Oct 2009 22:42 UTC
Mozilla & Gecko clones Mozilla has released the first beta release of Firefox 3.6, which comes with some nice Windows 7 integration features. More specifically, the Firefox 3.6 beta integrates with the new taskbar in Windows 7.
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RE[3]: OS X integration
by ple_mono on Sat 31st Oct 2009 16:17 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: OS X integration"
ple_mono
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"I dont understand what "drop down lists" you are referring to?


The ones you can create with the tag. Compare the lists at the bottom of the following (under display options) under Safari and Firefox and you'll see the difference:

http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=11
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Ah, yes, now i see. They do look kind of odd!

"This theme should be the default look IMHO;
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12610


And completely lose any kind of visual identity by aping Safari? That's a no go, Firefox wants to be recognized while still looking like part of the host system. There's a theme revamp for the OS X version underway though:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/3.7_and_4.0_Theme_and_UI_R...
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Yes, i happen to think safari did it right (TM). But those mockups look much better than the present firefox, indeed.

"Also, smooth scrolling in firefox is a joke compared to safari. I wonder if that is because of OpenCL?


It used to be under Firefox 3.0 and earlier versions but since 3.5 it works fine on my computer. Can you link to a page where Firefox' smooth scrolling performance starts to deteriorate?

And no, it's probably not due to OpenCL since Safari's scrolling performance has been excellent for years, long time before Snow Leopard got released.
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My bad, don't know where i got that from. I guess since smooth scrolling in windows/linux lags for me, i assumed i had tried the firefox "smooth scrolling" native to osx as well.
Actually, it's much more smooth in OS X. What a pleasant surprise!

Edited 2009-10-31 16:18 UTC

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