14 DAY TRIAL // While Google Chrome, Safari, and Microsoft Edge are currently the top browsers out there, Firefox too remains a super-popular choice, with many seeing it as the only worthy alternative to the avalanche of Chromium-based apps.
This is the reason Mozilla is fully committed to improving the experience with Firefox on all platforms, and the most recent Nightly builds come with a series of refinements specifically aimed at Apple users.
In other words, Mozilla wants to make Firefox feel like home on macOS, and the Nightly builds allow the company to experiment will all kinds of improvements.
As Neowin spotted, Mozilla recently confirmed that the macOS version of Firefox now supports the squish effect during rubber-banding, which is actually the animation that you see when hitting the top and the bottom of the website during scrolling.
Improved dark mode
Furthermore, Mozilla says that it’s also working on an enhanced dark mode for Firefox on macOS, and the company says users can already enable it by enabling the pref called widget.macos.respect-system-appearance in the Nightly build of the browser.
One highly anticipated update for Firefox in the Apple ecosystem is the full support for the native fullscreen mode, which would obviously come in handy for those watching videos, be they on YouTube or anywhere else, using this browser.
“We’re working on supporting native fullscreen on macOS. Turn it on by enabling the pref full-screen-api.macos-native-full-screen. This will (among other things) create new fullscreen Spaces for videos. You could, for example, put a fullscreen YouTube video in native Split Screen next to another application,” Mozilla explains.
Needless to say, all these improvements are currently in the Nightly build, so it would take a while before they make their way to the stable version of Firefox, but you can try them out today by downloading the latest experimental release.