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Tuesday, July 1, 2008
![[Item Permalink]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/images/ur_bullet.gif){kind=small} Firefox - great or ugly? -- Comment()
Ssp doesn't like Firefox. I think these are natural differences is taste. For example, I like the big back button in the toolbar, which may seem ugly to others. Today I solved one of the remaining problems: Keychain integration. Some time ago I got a copy of 1Password in the MacHeist bundle of software, and now I started to use it. The functionality is better than the Keychain integration in Omniweb, and at least so far so good. And the Macs I have are synchronized via the .Mac service ("MobileMe"), which means I need to submit the access information only once. There is one usability issue which I would like to see changed: in Firefox the progress bar is on the bottom of the window. Safari (and Omniweb) show this information in the toolbar area, which is much better. The biggest good feature of Firefox is keyboard navigation, which is a significant improvement compared to Safari and Omniweb. And the so-called "Awesome bar" is really good, with a quite nice system for managing bookmarks. (Although some rough corners remain there.)
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Is Firefox 3 good or bad? -- Comment()
I browsed Mac OS X software at Versiontracker.com, and noticed Firefox 3 feedback there. It was not pretty. If I would have seen the comments earlier I would probably never have installed Firefox on my systems. But I did, and it works great. I think a lot of the criticism is nit-picking. Some of it is probably quite fair, but I think the picture is much too negative. At least I'm happy with Firefox, and haven't had much problems with it (in fact, almost none).
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