Mozilla Ponders Major Firefox UI Refresh 282
CWmike writes "Mozilla is working on a revamp of Firefox to synchronize its various versions — desktop, tablet, phone and Windows 8 Metro — into a single visual style, according to documents posted by members of its user interface (UI) design team. The project, which does not have a name, and the earlier blending of Mozilla's mobile and desktop design groups, is meant to bring more coherence to the various versions of the open-source browser. 'One of our major goals for the year [is] getting Firefox to feel more like one product — more 'Firefoxy' — across all our platforms, desktop to tablet to phone,' Madhava Enro of the Mozilla UI design team, said in a post to his personal blog on Tuesday. Enro posted a slideshow he and others used the week before to present their proposals at a company get-together. According to the presentation, some UI elements will be shared across all Firefox editions, among them a lean toward 'softer texture' and smoother curves in the design."
finalized? (Score:5, Informative)
When it's finalized THEN post it.
Doing a story about "pondering" sounds like a MSN bullshit story. Even though it's more likely to happen, you might as well do a story title "moon may fall into Atlantic tomorrow."
Re:The beauty of Open Source. (Score:2, Informative)
And also SeaMonkey.
Re:Change Windows version (Score:5, Informative)
You realize you can change the Windows version to behaving like it used to, by turning on the menu bar in the view options? And that you can get the Linux version to behave like the Windows version by turning off the menu bar and enabling a sidebar?
Re:The beauty of Open Source. (Score:4, Informative)
It's like Firefox only without all the desperate attempts to copy Chrome at every turn. Just a shame more addons aren't marked as compatible with it.
Re:Change Windows version (Score:5, Informative)
Looks seriously unprofessional and quite obviously broken, but as the menubar is off by default, nobody's bothered to fix it.
Re:Change Windows version (Score:2, Informative)
Alt and let go.... or Alt-F for file or Alt-E for Edit, Alt-Spacebar for the window menu and so on. I don't know why all these hardcore geeks complain about something they don't see, when the command line is all about key combinations.
Re:Okay, maybe it is about time to fork it... (Score:5, Informative)
No worries, Firefox won't have a Twitter button. What you see in the mockup are a number of App tabs. You can simply right-click a tab and tell the browser to keep it there. The tab title gets reduced to the icon. This is a generic mechanism and not specific to any webpage or service. The mechanism already exists in the current versions of Firefox.
The protocol only gets hidden for http / https and the rest of the features are all there.
If you complain without bothering to check the facts, you do, indeed, sound like a cranky old man.
Re:The beauty of Open Source. (Score:4, Informative)
I agree. I'd hate to have another Opera, which has it's own visual style, regardless of the OS's settings.
Chrome can, at least, be configured to respect the GTK's settings.
Re:Noooo... (Score:3, Informative)
Sounds like you want the "Tree style tab" addon.
Re:Noooo... (Score:5, Informative)
Tree Style Tabs
Ive had it for years... (Google it)
Re:Just for a change (Score:3, Informative)
Here are the first two reports I found of this bug:
Bug #237623 [mozilla.org], reported over 8 years ago. 20 duplicate reports merged into it. Still unresolved.
Bug #536916 [mozilla.org], reported nearly 2.5 years ago. Still unconfirmed.
I'm sure there are more if you care to look, but I think that's enough.
Comment removed (Score:4, Informative)