firefox

we're going to set a world record! download firefox 3 on it's release date to do your part (that's tuesday the 17th, if you haven't been paying attention)

i've been using firefox 3 on os x for a while, and i have to say it's amazing. doesn't crash (as often). doesn't have memory leaks. it's way faster. and it feels like a native mac app now. i imagine all you windows users will see similar coolness, but i can't speak from experience there...

One of the reasons I like OS X is the consistent user interface. Apple has well established guidelines that lay out how an application should look and feel, and for the most part developers adhere to this. And those who don't are usually mocked....

So you can imagine how excited I was when the Firefox team announced that they would be releasing operating system targeted themes for Firefox 3. Under Windows XP, it would have XP-like styling, Firefox for Vista takes cues from native Vista apps, and on a Mac, Firefox 3 looks like it belongs:

Screen grabs, Del.icio.us Bookmarks hotness, and custom Mac OS X styles after the jump.

i love firefox. really, i do. it can be speedy. it can be extensible. but apparently it can't be both at the same time... all my development plugins make it slow, and all my browsing plugins make it even slower.

how i fixed my my super slow firefox after the jump.

firefox for mac has something seriously funky going on with the scroll action on my blog. not sure what's causing it, but i'll look into it when i get a minute. until then, i guess you'll have to use the scroll buttons on the side.

sorry 'bout that :-S

useless firefox extension of the day: mozilla firesomething. try it. you know you want to.

all your branding are belong to firesomething!

nerd note: it even rebrands your user agent string. abuse the open source!

my roommate just got a new laptop for his trip to Cambodia, and we were talking about what he needed to do to make windows xp usable. a few quick downloads and he's well on his way.

a while back i posted a couple of my favorite firefox extensions. while everything i said there is certainly still valid, i've got some updates for the list.

today we're going to focus primarily on look and feel. i'm a browser minimalist, so i like to keep my windows clean and light. here are a few extensions that help with that:

so i'm setting up a new (and by 'new' i really mean 'old'...) laptop. i like starting from scratch. you have a nice clean slate...

of course, the first thing to install is firefox. because internet explorer is a bad, bad browser...

so now firefox is loaded, and things are ready to go... a few minutes of browsing on the interweb and i discovered the topic of tonight's blog.

several ubercool firefox extensions that i can't live without: