Firefox, the little web-browser that could, hit 3.0 today. And it seems they think they’ve built a better browser than Safari.

The sad fact is, in most ways, WebKit/Safari is the superior browser. And it damn well better be. Apple caused a huge ruckus when it chose to use the kHTML engine as Safari’s starting point instead of Gecko. The long run has proven their decision was correct. They’ve managed to build a faster, more compliant-browser with fewer programmers and less glitz than the Firefox team. WebKit is increasingly being chosen as the default “browser component” for other manufacturers, from Nokia to Adobe to Google, and the recent Acid 3.0 browser-team-showdown didn’t make Firefox look particularly good.

Comparing themselves to Safari in such horrendously silly, self-congratulating, masturbatory ways is just begging for trouble.

I’m still amazed how popular Firefox is on the Mac. There’s no Firefox add-on that trumps the integration of Safari with the Mac OS. And yes, I also found the comparison chart comical.