Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 30th Oct 2009 22:42 UTC
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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Member since:2005-07-26
I dont understand what "drop down lists" you are referring to? Firefox on OS X looks good to me, other than that the default theme is horrible IMHO.
This theme should be the default look IMHO;
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12610
Also, smooth scrolling in firefox is a joke compared to safari. I wonder if that is because of OpenCL?
Member since:2006-09-22
Member since:2007-06-22
I dont understand what "drop down lists" you are referring to?
The ones you can create with the <select> 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
This theme should be the default look IMHO;
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12610
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...
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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2007-06-22
The roadmap must be out of date as neither the keychain nor the dictionary integration are present in the first beta. As far as I know the roadmap was conceived before Mozilla decided to switch to a fast iterative release schedule so these kind of features probably slipped to a later release. I'm surprised though that nobody has done anything about those butt-ugly Windows 95 dropdown lists which have plagued the OS X version of Firefox for years, especially since the managed to make the Windows counterparts look native.