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Firefox 4.0: New Design Changes Revealed

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Re: Firefox 4.0: New Design Changes Revealed

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Post by Mystalic »

pavs wrote: post #22
Mystalic wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sorry about that. I've added a [via] tag at the bottom and expanded the link text to make sure credit is given where it is due. - Ben (Co-Editor)

Thanks for this. I was about to write a comment dissing Mashable for this. Also, please consider doing it more often. Mashable rarely links to the original source (if at all), many times I have to Google to get more information; an extra step that can be easily avoided. Its in good form to link the original source.

We link regularly to the original source, I'm sorry if it's not as visible, but I assure you we do regularly. The exception are ones coming in the form of company announcements, but even then we often link back to their blog posts.

I'll try to make it more visible in the future.

Re: Firefox 4.0: New Design Changes Revealed

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Post by jm4 »

MikeCapone wrote: post #14
jm4 wrote: post #13

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That's absurd. Why would anyone publish a list of upcoming features and then mention which competitor they're borrowing them from?

It's certainly not unheard of in the open source world to say that you've been inspired by another project. I recently watched an official video by Googlers about the Chrome extensions, and they mention Firefox by name many times.

Yes, but, unlike some open source projects, Mozilla is out to make money from the project and their income is generated almost exclusively through a search deal with this particular competitor.

Re: Firefox 4.0: New Design Changes Revealed

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Post by Mystalic »

lovskogen wrote: post #26
Mystalic wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sorry about that. I've added a [via] tag at the bottom and expanded the link text to make sure credit is given where it is due. - Ben (Co-Editor)

In your last image "Comparison of Firefox 4.0 and Firefox 3.5" – the screenshot of 3.5 has a bookmarks bar and multiple tabs, while the grab from 4.0 has not. You are making it look like 4.0 gives way more room to browse, when the change is marginal.

We took the screen directly from the source - we didn't do the actual comparison.

Re: Firefox 4.0: New Design Changes Revealed

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Post by jm4 »

pavs wrote: post #16
MikeCapone wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's certainly not unheard of in the open source world to say that you've been inspired by another project. I recently watched an official video by Googlers about the Chrome extensions, and they mention Firefox by name many times.

Yup, even on chrome blog, on recent videos they have mentioned webkit/safari/apple contributions several times.

That's not an accurate comparison. That's an improvement to the rendering engine that's shared between them. They all have the feature. It's a different story when you're talking about a feature you're planning to implement and then mention the competitor who already has it. It's just plain stupid.

Re: Firefox 4.0: New Design Changes Revealed

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Post by pavs »

Mystalic wrote: post #31
pavs wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for this. I was about to write a comment dissing Mashable for this. Also, please consider doing it more often. Mashable rarely links to the original source (if at all), many times I have to Google to get more information; an extra step that can be easily avoided. Its in good form to link the original source.

We link regularly to the original source, I'm sorry if it's not as visible, but I assure you we do regularly. The exception are ones coming in the form of company announcements, but even then we often link back to their blog posts. I'll try to make it more visible in the future.

OK, I should have said "from my experience". That was my experience most of the time when I was subscribed to mashable RSS, most of the time posts were deep linked to more mashable posts, instead of original source. It was a quite bit frustrating.

Anyways, I just checked the last couple of post you guys had they all seem to link to the source. The fact that you come here to reply to readers opinions, clearly means you guys care. That's good enough for me.

Thanks.

Re: Firefox 4.0: New Design Changes Revealed

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Post by uggedal »

thehigherlife wrote: post #29
uggedal wrote: post #6

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If you need to maximize usable window space, try vimperator for Firefox. Works wonders on my netbook.

do you know of a way to set certain UI elements to load on every launch so that i don't have to type in 'set guioptions' every time i launch the browser?

create a ~/.vimperatorrc file with your specific settings
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