Infinite Loop: Cocoa widgets in Firefox, Thunderbird progressing nicely.

Work is being done on the OSX version of Firefox to gibve it the ability to use Cocoa widgets.

Infinite Loop: Cocoa widgets in Firefox, Thunderbird progressing nicely.:

One common complaint Mac users have about Firefox is that it just doesn't feel like a native OS X application. This is a valid critisism, mostly because... Firefox isn't a native application. Firefox abstracts away a lot of the OS-specific stuff like dialogs, context menus, and 'widgets' like buttons and dropdowns in order to be more portable across platforms.

A ongoing project on the Firefox team is to bring OS X's native widgets (ala Camino) into the Firefox fold, and assauge a lot of the common complaints heard from Mac users.

This is kind of exciting because The Cocoa widget set on the Macintosh is incredibly powerful. They can be read by Applescripts, possess a built-in realtime spell checker/fixer - and support system-wide text services from both Apple and third party applications.