Firefox 15 now supports in-content preferences
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Firefox 15 now supports in-content preferences
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Re: Firefox 15 now supports in-content preferences
#2I'd like to see per-tab offline mode, a-la https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=226096
Re: Firefox 15 now supports in-content preferences
#3I'd like to see per-tab offline mode, a-la https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=226096
in-content means the preferences dialog get changed to a tab (à la Chrome). It's not about changing preferences to be per-site (there are some per-site prefs in right-click, view page info, permissions).
Re: Firefox 15 now supports in-content preferences
#4Explain to me how this is a good thing?
Re: Firefox 15 now supports in-content preferences
#5Explain to me how this is a good thing?
It makes it easier for contributors to hack on if the code is HTML/JS/CSS.
It'll let them iterate faster - just change code and reload. No recompilation needed.
Re: Firefox 15 now supports in-content preferences
#6I really don't care for Firefox's new versioning scheme. I'm still on Firefox 10 on Gentoo, and I don't feel much of a reason to upgrade. I felt that incrementing that number should be reserved for major changes. I didn't intend for this to be taken as a complaint about the Mozilla development team. It's just something I've found unusual in the development community. It's been confusing me, and I never understood their reasoning behind it.
Re: Firefox 15 now supports in-content preferences
#7I really don't care for Firefox's new versioning scheme. I'm still on Firefox 10 on Gentoo, and I don't feel much of a reason to upgrade. I felt that incrementing that number should be reserved for major changes. I didn't intend for this to be taken as a complaint about the Mozilla development team. It's just something I've found unusual in the development community. It's been confusing me, and I never understood the…
Does it really matter though? It's an arbitrary number, and incrementing the major version just sets a clearer goal for each release cycle.
Re: Firefox 15 now supports in-content preferences
#8Explain to me how this is a good thing?
It's no longer a modal dialog. Seems like a simple GUI improvement.
Re: Firefox 15 now supports in-content preferences
#9For me, this is step backwards, because it breaks existing UI paradigms.
Why is it a good thing for the preferences pane have to appear in a different place from where it does in every single other application on my OS?
And this deliberately confuses application content versus Internet content. Do you have to scroll down to click "OK"? What if it isn't visible? Or should it be labelled "save"? Why learn a new dialog-style interface? And why on Earth does this need to be a tab -- are people going to be tabbing between their stock quotes, news, and browser Preferences tab?
Re: Firefox 15 now supports in-content preferences
#10For me, this is step backwards, because it breaks existing UI paradigms. Why is it a good thing for the preferences pane have to appear in a different place from where it does in every single other application on my OS ? And this deliberately confuses application content versus Internet content. Do you have to scroll down to click "OK"? What if it isn't visible? Or should it be labelled "save"? Why learn a new dialog…
I daresay by now users are more familiar with web-based UI paradigms than traditional OS paradigms.
I think they'd spend more time interacting with web-based applications than traditional OS applications.
If that's the case, then Firefox is actually adapting to people's expectation of the UI.