I’ll be perfectly honest with you. I really don’t like PCs. Yes, I’m a Mac guy. However, I didn’t used to be. Until a few months ago, my computer was a wheezing, 800 or so Mhz Dell laptop. It could do the basics ok–web browsing, email, word, things like that. But enough of my sob story. To cut to the chase, I had been wanting a far better computer for quite a while, and after having to put up with PCs and Windows for years the natural choice was to get a Mac. So, I got a lovely iMac named, um, Guido. Obviously, this new computer could and can do anything thrown at it (well, so long as it’s a universal app which is its Achilles heel, but that’s another blog post) but of course I still did not it for the basics, so for internet of course, I instantly downloaded Firefox, which was my favorite browser… for Windows. I instantly found it to be hardly as visually appealing as most other OS X apps, and it lacked some core OS X features (namely spell checking within textfields) as it doesn’t utilize Cocoa, an OS X API which lets applications have that visual aesthetic akin to OS X, you know–the flashing blue buttons and form items, things like that. Until now. Josh Aas, who seems to be a lead Firefox developer posted about this just-released Alpha in his blog. Note: This is experimental software, so use at your own risk.

That said, I downloaded it just a bit ago, and although for form elements it doesn’t render things as well, nor is at as sleek as Safari, but it makes Firefox that much more worth using on Macs. In any case, Safari’s my top pick for browsers on OS X, but hey, I’ll keep an open mind about Firefox and who knows, maybe Safari will soon be begging for my attention.