What Do You Think Sucks About Firefox on Mac?

Pete Mortensen ()

Firefox

Firefox makes me crazy. So much about it is great: Cross-platform functionality, a dedicated community of developers, a massively extensible plug-in system, it’s nice. But it’s also slow, buggy and burdened with a non-standard Mac OS X interface.

Friday, Developer Colin Barrett put out a call to know what Mac users would fix on Firefox if they had the chance. The conversation’s been good, but make sure to make your voice heard! I’ll add my own pet peeve: Drop the XUL garbage and build a real Mac interface. Oh, and learn how to constrain functionality so that you don’t get memory leaks every few hours. Oops, hang on. Am I just describing Camino?
Firefox on the Mac
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Pete Mortensen is a design strategist for consulting firm Jump Associates and the co-author of Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy, a book and blog that are significantly more interesting than you might initially think. Pete's particular Apple avocations are both around design--interface and industrial. Follow him on Twitter!

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  • http://www.ktolis.gr Apostolos Karakoussis

    Drag & drop of urls to the drop down menus of the bookmarks bar menu should be fixed. Sole reason I am not using FF on my macbook.

  • http://willbowling.com will

    Mac/Aqua interface – Better integration of online apps possibly into tool bar or search, (gmail etc.) – Ability to disable css styles like with “Web Developer” tool bar by default – Impede the “behind the window – pop ups”. Integration of Blogs and Flickr and Delicious accounts like with “Flock”. Love the add ons!!! get rid of the themes etc only reason i use it is due to the similarity to the mac interface… Oh and BTW, im looking for work ;)

  • http://www.technomaster.com Kevin

    As a crossplatform developer/designer, I actually appreciate the fact that Mac Firefox works/behaves very close to PC Firefox. I really don’t care all that much about the Mac/Aqua experience.

    I tend to think the developers are going for a cross-platform consistent look, so regardless of what platform I’m in, Firefox will be Firefox.

    And yes, maybe Camino is the app that should offer the Firefox functionality in a true Aqua interface/skin.

    But hey, that’s my opinion.