As I’ve made evident in the past, I’m a bit of a Mac fan. I wouldn’t go as far as saying I’m a Mac zealot seeing as how I don’t think Microsoft is the embodiment of all that is evil and Bill Gates is the devil (nor do I go the other way and call Steve Jobs “God” or “His Steveness”). But, I am a fan and I do vastly prefer to use the Mac over my PC.

Not only am I Mac fan, I am also a Firefox user and I will admit to being a Firefox zealot, for numerous reasons. It just works better than IE, has nicer features, and is much more secure. Firefox on PC is a great experience and one I love. However, because Firefox is cross-platform, it doesn’t make for a very good native Mac experience.

Well, the Mozilla foundation has finally begun work on making an OS X-native version of Firefox called Minefield. It will be developed using Cocoa, which is OS X’s native framework and is what is used to hook a program into the main OS. This is great news for people like me who love Firefox, but wish it were a bit more native to the Mac.