Comments on: Safari-esque Firefox: Themes, Extensions, And More

By: smayer

smayer — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:08:39 +0000

@kirkrr & @spliceguys

there is now an extension for FF (still under development) that integrates the Mac OS Keychain. Check it out:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13509

By: Lance

Lance — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 08:50:32 +0000

GrApple Delicious theme gives me the look I like and it’s pretty close to that of Safari. The only thing I want now is to make Firefox and ShapeShifter get along. I hate Safari for several reasons, such as the Google-ized toolbar, and not having all the buttons together. Why do they want to put the Stop and Reload buttons way over on the right while all the others are on the left? Nuts to Safari!

By: Seamus Anthony

Seamus Anthony — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:22:04 +0000

Bah. I found this looking for a way to make firefox look like firefox again. I HATE the Safari look. bah humbug.

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By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 29 May 2008 09:26:39 +0000

Oh my goodness, I’ve been a firefox hater for a while cuz of its clunky ugly interface and features……well after I installed everything I clicked on my safari window, but the menu bar kept on saying “Firefox” so i clicked a few more times….then I realized it actually was firefox. You honestly blew me away…..

By: Spliceguys

Spliceguys — Sat, 17 May 2008 16:18:18 +0000

I like this article and immediately updated the look of my Firefox 3r5.

On question I have though, is how in your screen shot, you still have a 3d like appearance on the tab, while everything else is flat like Safari. I actually prefer the look in your screenshot. Adding the Grapple Yummy theme made everything flat as a board on my Firefox.

I paritially agree with kirkrr’s comments about the keychain. I wholeheartedly wish Firefox would integrate with the keychain and store passwords..

On the other hand, I wish even MORE that Apple would realize that people have more than one identity on sites and they would let Safari hold more than one id and password for each website.. That’s the main reason I use Firefox, for the multiple logins..

By: Billy Jones

Billy Jones — Thu, 08 May 2008 05:12:49 +0000

I don’t care what Firefox looks like! In fact I prefer it to look different from Safari so I can easily tell them apart.

I run both Safari and Firefox on my Mac, and Explorer and Firefox on Windows, to test Web pages I code. Firefox is the best Web development platform on both Macs and Windows because of all the great Web development extensions. Firefox is also best for tweakers and control freaks — there are thousands of free extensions, many high quality.

By: kirkrr

kirkrr — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:47:41 +0000

“Yes, it really is Firefox, only beautified and integrated into the OS. ”

The #1 reason to use Safari, IMHO, is the integration with OS X’s Keychain, managing password and certificates, in one place, not maintained in Firefox AND mail AND … AND … AND…. (one version on the truth – the prime mandate of all data management) and integrated with Apple’s Address book, for contact, physical address mapping, and URL linkages, plus a zillion other apps that leverage the same data source.

This system wide common security management vehicle has NOT been in Firefox to date – I have not tried Firefox 3.x, but if this is not there, then it is a net loss to move from Safari.

By: Radon

Radon — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:55:36 +0000

Hey thanks for the post! I’m back to using Fx3b5 again after a hiatus on Webkit.

I still dislike Firefox’s wacked out green zoom button though.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:31:42 +0000

I loved the article +digg and blogged.

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By: Christopher Su

Christopher Su — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:49:27 +0000

Firefox 3 Beta 5 has a really cool Aqua look you should check out. Not like Safari but looks Mac-worthy anyways.

By: agua

agua — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:53:47 +0000

Camino is possibly the best browser on a Mac. Its Cocoa based, so it works well with a mac, it looks nice and its customizable like Firefox.

But you can also download Optimized versions according to your system for better performance and the sucka is by far the fastest browser when all the anti animation and flash features are enabled.

So, we get:

Cocoa based browser
Customizable
Good looking
Feature packed
Optimized versions
Incredible speeds

YOu also get the Safari shortcuts. Now if it only had the Safari bookmark shortcuts, (i.e. hitting cmd + any of 1-9 to bring up your fav bookmark) that would be heaven!!!

By: Jonas Wisser

Jonas Wisser — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:04:27 +0000

As an alternative to the Stylish trick, you can just use the Stop-or-Reload extension [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/313] to get the same effect.

By: Simone

Simone — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:59:25 +0000

You can’t install Stylish extension in Firefox 3.0b5 because it said that is not supported. You have to install it on a previously release.

By: Guillermo Rauch

Guillermo Rauch — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:39:56 +0000

A small correction I think you should make to the article:

“still retaining features in the interface similar to features on Windows and Linux, like an enlarged back button (which, frankly, I think is ugly)”

The button in question could be easily made smaller and cuter by choosing the option “smaller icons” in the customize toolbar dialog.

Still, great article!!

By: Chriswan

Chriswan — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:01:04 +0000

Ohhhhh, I’m bookmarking this for future reference

Thanks a lot

By: James C

James C — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:51:32 +0000

I like Firefox and used it for years and then Safari 3 came out. Actually the thing I want in Firefox is how Safari lets you scroll one pixel if you want. Firefox forces it to move a certain number of pixels… I find the jumping annoying. And I wish Firefox would dump Gecko and use Webkit

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:26:57 +0000

“Or, you can think of it as Safari plus all of the amazing extensions available for Firefox”

No, you can think of it as a sub par imitation of Safari. Looking like Safari hardly makes it as good a browser.

By: Allen

Allen — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:44:50 +0000

Loving it! Thank you.