"What do you get when you cross a Firefox with a chameleon? An open-source Web browser whose user interface is adapted to the look of the operating system it's running on. One change planned for the upcoming Firefox version 3, code-named Gran Paradiso, is this more native appearance."
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Its not just the GUI that is a problem. I stopped using firefox a month or so bad because it had become bloated and did not intergrate with the desktop environment of preference (KDE).
What bothers me the most is the file dialogs and the like. With KDE I can customize what appears in the side-bar on a system-wide and / or application-specific level. I also have found the Gtk file-selector to be awkward and mangled hugh pile of steaming proverbial.
So now at a loss for choice, I have stuck to konqueror even if lacking extensions. At least flash works now.
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Member since:2005-11-11
What bothers me the most is the file dialogs and the like. With KDE I can ...
Check out kgtk: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=36077
I'm using it to get KDE dialogs with Firefox (when I'm not using Konqueror).
Though it works well, it's a bit of a hack. I wish the Portland Project would actually make something other than pie (in the sky) and command line utils.
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2005-12-15
I'd rather they work on speeding the start-up time and improving the memory utilisation of Firefox before they did things like this.
Skins to change the GUI appearance are plentiful and are quick and simple to install.
Wouldn't it be better to either ship each build with a more 'native looking' (or even a set of, then the user will choose a 'look') skin or set the homepage to prompt the user to set the skin from the online repository?
I think there's far better things to for the Firefox developers to work on.