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Make Firefox More Mac-likeOver at "But she's a girl..." the author has decided to give Firefox 1.5 a try, but is a little bit peaved about the level of Mac-ness that Firefox offers... Fortunately, she also offers a fix - the main problem I’ve always had with Firefox is that it just doesn’t look very Mac-like. After a little bit of digging, that particular problem was solved by the GrApple Eos Pro theme; very simple, stylish, and a bit like Safari without the brushed metal. Firefoxy makes form widgets a little smoother and more Mac-like, rather than the boxy Firefox-native widgets, which always seem too large to me. These are both excellent finds -- Firefox feels much more like a native Mac application...


OS X Firefox Users - Don’t Hold That Button!There is an article causing a bit of a ripple this morning claiming a "major bug" in Firefox under OS X. There is a major bug in Firefox where if you hold down the mouse button to select text, or scroll, or anything inside the browser window, the Firefox CPU usage shoots up to nearly 100% and hogs your entire system until you let go. I just tested it using top and can verify that the CPU usage jumps to between 75-95% depending on the other applications in use at the time. For Powerbook or iBook users this is a major issue, considering your fans will probably turn on and you'll battery will drain much quicker. This is real, but...


Firefox - More Better Popup BlockingI was bitching awhile back about the new wave of “unblocked” pop-ups that have sprang up lately.  It looks like help is on the way, at least if you’re a FireFox user.  According to one of the developer blogs, new pop-up blocking is being tested as we speak—and you can download a test plugin to try it now. "Give that these pop-ups and pop-unders have really started to spread on the web, we’re testing a quick patch that enables the Firefox pref to block them. I blogged about this earlier this month and included manual steps to disable these nasty pop-ups and pop-unders. In addition to this fix, the good news is that for sites where you need these pop-ups,...


Firefox 1.5 RocksI've been biding my time about saying anything about Firefox 1.5 -- I've been playing with it since RC1 ("Release Candidate 1"), and it's currently up to RC3, and looking rock solid. Rumor has it that the formal release will be around the end of the month, but as far as I'm concerned, it's pretty close. PC Mag must think so too, since they just did a review of RC3. Of course, I haven't fooled much with the PC version (which they review), but I've spent a lot of quality time with the Mac OS X version, and I've got to say, Firefox 1.5 rocks. The best "feature", as far as I'm concerned, is that it's much faster than previous...


Firefox 1.5 ReleasedFirefox 1.5 is now officially released. As I mentioned the other day, this version is a substantial improvement on the 1.0x versions -- which were in turn quite an improvement over most everything else. If you're currently using Firefox, you need to hop over and download the new version. If you're not currently using Firefox, then you're in for even more of a treat. If you're still using Internet Explorer, you may wish to take a few minutes to have your head examined and rescan your machine for viruses and spyware first... Firefox 1.5 - Rediscover the web...