Being a Firefox user (who knew? 
) on the Mac, I know that many Mac-users would like to see Firefox better integrated with OS X. Well, with Firefox 3 Beta 1, things are definitively on the right track:
Screenshot of Firefox 3 Beta 1 on the Mac with the Proto theme. Native widgets[1], new User Interface
For this screenshot, I used the under development Proto theme for Mac OS X recently mentioned by the always witty Beltzner. Now, Firefox 3 Beta 1 is my default browser 
Notes
[1] For those who don't remember how form widgets look on Firefox 2 on the Mac, here is a screenshot.
8 réactions
1 De Peter - 23/11/2007, 21:28
Why the the Firefox-on-Mac tabs attached to the bookmarks instead of to the page that they refer to? It seems illogical, disjointed, jarring, and up-side-down. (speaking as a Fx-Win user)
2 De sylvain - 24/11/2007, 09:52
I tried it on my mac mini and the memory consumption or the CPU consumption make it unusable (The whole system became very very slow). Too bad because on my laptop (with Windows), this now my default browser and there's a lot of little thing making it great!
3 De antistress - 24/11/2007, 15:26
I was about to write the same remark as Peter
Safari has the same crazy default in its GUI
It seems to be a way for Mac to say : "hi, i exist, i'm different : look at my funny cool tabs !"
It is of course a non sens since it breaks the metaphor with "real tabs" (i.e in "real world").
Man must admit that Mac Developpers can make things wrong even in GUI conception (see "time machine" in Leopard for another exemple)
I don't understand why Firefox wants to reproduce that default. I'm not sure that creating a "Safari bis" will help Mac users to switch to Firefox.
By the way, it would be interessant for Firefox to point out what are the advantages of Firefox on Safari if you want mac users to switch from Safari to Firefox
Tristan, since you know both of them, could you compare Safari 3 and Firefox 3 ?
4 De Guillaume - 25/11/2007, 11:33
This release is brilliant and amazing. Don't know why but it is even better on Linux compare to windows: when you move a tab over another (to sort the order), on Linux you see the content of the tab and not only the small purple arrows.
And the memory consumption is great, a huge progress has been made there!
Tristan, because you use it now as your default browser, what are the addons you are using, because so far none of my favorites are compatible with 3.0b1.
5 De lockoom - 26/11/2007, 09:05
Safar'o'fox for the win!
I don't like this new Safari-like look. But AFAIK only non-Mac user complain about that. It looks they've always wanted Safari with Gecko engine. Now the dreams come true
6 De Ingo - 26/11/2007, 13:00
It'd be even cooler if FF would use the mini widgets like Safari does - he big combo boxes are just ugly....
7 De jj - 27/11/2007, 21:45
i wonder if the new controls will multiply layout issues because it will be hard to
-> choose colors: how can i design a web site who will have marron buttons on linux and blue buttons on a mac?
-> are the sizes the sames?
but it's a good idea, not great but good.
8 De Nathalie@LG - 30/11/2007, 18:40
Je n'ai pas encore testé cette version beta mais savez vous quand la version officielle doit sortir?