• First gap: PDF’s. While you’re able to read/download PDF files on the flow from Safari, Firefox 3 doesn’t have this ability. You can make Firefox open these kind of files by adding a free plugin that “uses PDFKit to display PDFs in the browser.”
  You can get the plugin here.
• Second gap: iWeb made sites rendering is broken in Firefox 3. Until Apple releases a fix for iWeb, here’s a fix to download. Go here to download Fix iWeb and Firefox 3 1.1.

Third part of our detailed analysis of Firefox 3.
Let’s start with the toolbar. Big and ugly “back” button… Well, the first thing to be done if you’re shocked like I am with that weird idea is to go to View>Toolbars>Customize and check the “Use Small Icons”.

Ah! That’s better!!!
Firefox 3 comes also with an updated Add-Ons manager:

I have nothing to say on that one, it’s great!
The download manager is still the same too.
The global shape of the browser (with our “normally” sized back button) is close to Safari, and as the Safari fan I am: I’m happy with it!

Second level of analysis I’m going to do is OS X based ones. As we already said before, Firefox is going to move from the Carbon API, to the modern and classy Cocoa.
As a result, Firefox gets that native Aqua style forms we’re used to like the search button in Google.

Firefox also uses Core Graphics (which uses the Quartz technology) now instead of the Quick Draw technology (available on Macs since 1984)… The consequence is hardware acceleration provided by Core Graphics that leads to increase performances!

Now Mozilla’s projects for OS X are simple: replacing more and more Carbon by Cocoa to finally reach 64 bits versions of Firefox.

Aside from the usual bug squashing, we’re going to focus on minimizing Carbon usage and getting ready for 64-bit. Gecko 1.9.0 is generally Cocoa-based but it still contains a modest amount of Carbon and other code that is not 64-bit-ready. We’re probably not going to be Carbon-free or 64-bit-ready for the Gecko 1.9.1 release, but we can make a lot of progress. (Josh Aas)

Yes, this new release of Firefox is amazing!

Firefox 3 will bring many changes for all Mac users (mostly good), as this is the first release of Firefox that is built primarily using Cocoa for the underlying Gecko 1.9 engine (a project that’s been in the works for years). Along with better redraw speed (CoreGraphics vs. the older QuickDraw API) and improved memory handling, the new engine provides the groundwork for a pure-Cocoa, 64-bit clean version of Firefox in the future. Firefox 3’s UI is more Maclike now, with Aqua-style widgets improving the view.

You can read more here.

While Apple is seeding a preview version of Safari 4 to developpers, the 3rd version of Firefox is going to be shipped today!
A great even for the Firefox users!
The download link will be turned on at 10 am PDT.

If you can’t wait, you can still download Firefox RC 3 from here.

A few hours ago, my friend Kofster was showing some very cute photographs he took of cats, so here’s another one, it’s a real lige Firefox Logo.
Hope you’ll like it padna!

While many of us think the Firefox logo is just a Fox on a Globe, some others went deeper in the investigations, and it seems they found a clue by looking up to the Sky.
As you can see (image below), it seems the Firefox logo has been inspired by the Star V838 Monocerotis; the image has been taken by Hubble.