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Firefox 3.6 has been released.
iindigo:
Once a PPC G5-optimized build of 3.6 surfaces, I'll give it a shot, but for all versions up until now Firefox has felt far too disjointed from the rest of OS X (since it has fake the UI with XUL rather than using native elements). Firefox is also unable to use OS-wide goodies like the dictionary* (see note on the bottom of this post), services, and other various things, also due to not being a native application. I don't believe it even makes use of native text rendering and antialiasing, but rather Cairo or something, so text on pages in Firefox looks distinctly different than it does in any other application. It may sound minor, but it's a major annoyance when you've become accustomed to using these things anywhere at any time.
*Under OS X, Command-Control-D pops up the selected text's dictionary definition in a little bubble WITHOUT launching an external app as long as it's either English or Japanese. It's unbelievably handy and I use it constantly.
mgz:
but nobody gives 2 shits about macs
temuchin:
really are you sure? well; if you owned a mac you would... a pity
Nikaido:
Thing is macs just haven't been the same since they switched from Motorola chipsets to Intel. I mean back in the day, macs were the only computers that could handle large scale video production. These days almost any video production you can do in a mac you can do in a PC, especially with Adobe Premiere. Although I do have to admit that Final Cut Pro will 9 times out of 10 be the superior video editing software of it's kind.
fohfoh:
FF still seems to be using a bit of resource in comparison to chrome... but I agree... It's fucking fast. As long as this keeps up and no memory leaks, I'll be happy.
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