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Firefox on Windows is nice, but on the Mac the UI feels just slightly off, presumably thanks to the XUL layer. Until they finally ditch XUL and just start doing
by FreakyT 12y ago
Firefox on Windows is nice, but on the Mac the UI feels just slightly off, presumably thanks to the XUL layer. Until they finally ditch XUL and just start doing native UIs, I suspect they'll always be playing catch up in the "feeling native" game. Here are a few examples:
* Still no elastic scrolling, 3 entire years after that became the standard scroll behavior for all Mac apps (this started in Mac OS 10.7)
* Still missing HiDPI icons for most toolbar and sidebar icons, 2 years after the first Retina Macbooks were released
* Took nearly THREE YEARS to adopt the new scrollbar style first seen in Mac OS 10.7 [1]
[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636564 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636564
- kristofferR 12y agoElastic scrolling was actually activated for a while, but they disabled it since it caused performance issues (especially on retina screens) due to the way it was coded: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=673875 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=673875 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=939480 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=939480
- FreakyT 12y agoInteresting! That is also a great example of how XUL tends to force the developers to re-invent the wheel every time the OS GUI elements change, causing Firefox to lag considerably behind Chrome and Safari's UIs.