Favouritism in Firefox
One of the goals for Firefox 3 is to use native cocoa widgets for it’s user interface. Great, it’s about time because at the moment, it looks out of place on OS X. But why stop there?
Where’s my native GTK+ widgets on Gnome? Qt on KDE? Or, dare I ask, native widgets on Windows, which is by far their largest demographic. I admit, Firefox looks worse on OS X than it does on any of the above, but that’s no excuse.
At the moment, on Gnome, it’s a toss up as to which is better, Firefox or Epiphany. Epiphany, with it’s native GTK+ user interface, is much faster and integrates well with the desktop, but Firefox, with it’s add-on system and huge development community is much more powerful.
We need a clear winner. We need a GTK+ build of Firefox.