On my Mac, both FF and Safari take exactly the same time to launch. This is with many addons (7 or 8 at the last count). Also, FF is very snappy. In fact, it works better with large pages having a bunch of media content than Safari. Except for a few very small glitches, FF 3.5 is as native as you could want it.
I just switched back to FF from Opera. I chose Opera over FF for my Mac because it looked native and was snappier than the OS X version of FF. Now Opera seems to be going in the opposite direction (choosing a horribly non-native skin, adding everything and the kitchensink to the browser, becoming painfully unresponsive with every new version).
On my Mac, both FF and Safari take exactly the same time to launch. This is with many addons (7 or 8 at the last count). Also, FF is very snappy. In fact, it works better with large pages having a bunch of media content than Safari. Except for a few very small glitches, FF 3.5 is as native as you could want it.
I just switched back to FF from Opera. I chose Opera over FF for my Mac because it looked native and was snappier than the OS X version of FF. Now Opera seems to be going in the opposite direction (choosing a horribly non-native skin, adding everything and the kitchensink to the browser, becoming painfully unresponsive with every new version).