Mozilla’s Alex Faaborg announced a week or so ago that Fire­fox 3 would focus on visu­ally inte­grat­ing with the oper­at­ing system:

Visual inte­gra­tion with Win­dows and OS X is our pri­mary objec­tive for the Fire­fox 3 refresh.

This is great news for Fire­fox, because as I have men­tioned before, its user inter­face has really been the achilles’ heel of the browser, espe­cially on the Mac.

Mozilla’s user expe­ri­ence team lit­er­ally wants to do a better job of visu­ally inte­grat­ing with Win­dows than IE, and a better job of visu­ally inte­grat­ing with OS X than Safari. I don’t know if we will be able to pull that off, but that’s the goal.

I’m glad that they’ve rec­og­nized this as an issue and I can’t wait to see what they come up with. If Fire­fox actu­ally did look as good or better than Safari on a Mac, I might use it as my pri­mary browser.

Via Beauty And The Geek: Fire­fox 3’s Visual Makeover.