Firefox 25 will get a major UI overhaul
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Firefox 25 will get a major UI overhaul
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Re: Firefox 25 will get a major UI overhaul
#2They've also made a CSS mockup of the new interface: http://people.mozilla.com/~shorlander/files/australis-design...
Re: Firefox 25 will get a major UI overhaul
#3I like what they're doing to signify trust here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/File:PanelMenu-i01-CustomizationMod...
Re: Firefox 25 will get a major UI overhaul
#4If you want to see the work being done done on this, http://people.mozilla.org/~jwein/ux-nightly/ has nightly builds of the Australis UX overhaul. It's still hugely WIP though
Re: Firefox 25 will get a major UI overhaul
#5It looks beautiful in Windows and OSX.
It looks less awful than the current theme in Linux, thanks to the menu button (which usually occupies the position of the leftmost tab in Linux and isn't even orange) being moved to the same location as where Chrome has it. But there still seems to be a lot of wasted space in the titlebar of the Linux theme.
I remember reading that this is because certain opendesktop UI guidelines (can't remember which one) prohibit apps from encroaching on the window chrome. But Chrome doesn't care and puts tabs at the top of the chrome anyway, and this is quite useful because you can just push the mouse to the top edge of the screen to click on a tab. With a thick titlebar occupying the edge, on the other hand, you need to aim more carefully.
Re: Firefox 25 will get a major UI overhaul
#6It looks beautiful in Windows and OSX. It looks less awful than the current theme in Linux, thanks to the menu button (which usually occupies the position of the leftmost tab in Linux and isn't even orange) being moved to the same location as where Chrome has it. But there still seems to be a lot of wasted space in the titlebar of the Linux theme. I remember reading that this is because certain opendesktop UI guideli…
To be honest, I really don't care about the UI on Linux so much as the terrible lag. For whatever reason, Mozilla just can't get its shit together when it comes to fixing lag on Linux. For this reason alone, I continue to use Chrome, even though I'd love to move back to Firefox and get all the customizability that it's known for.
Re: Firefox 25 will get a major UI overhaul
#7The page itself doesn't make it sound like an overhaul at all- just a collection of minor tweaks.
Re: Firefox 25 will get a major UI overhaul
#8Here are some very detailed mockups(?) on major platforms whose links are kind of tucked into the parent link:
Linux: http://people.mozilla.com/~shorlander/files/australis-design...
Windows 7: http://people.mozilla.com/~shorlander/files/australis-design...
Windows XP: http://people.mozilla.com/~shorlander/files/australis-design...
OSX: http://people.mozilla.com/~shorlander/files/australis-design...
I personally think it looks nice and welcome the update. I haven't really been using Firefox all that much mainly due to how busy the interface is, so maybe leaning it out will make me a regular user again.
Re: Firefox 25 will get a major UI overhaul
#9And jwz gets proven right again [0]. I don't use Firefox as my day-to-day browser but every time I drop into it, I find that I have no idea where anything is. Hopefully they'll stick with the new changes (which do seem to be mostly cosmetic, instead of location).
http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/04/why-i-use-safari-instead-of-...
Re: Firefox 25 will get a major UI overhaul
#10Here are some very detailed mockups(?) on major platforms whose links are kind of tucked into the parent link: Linux: http://people.mozilla.com/~shorlander/files/australis-design... Windows 7: http://people.mozilla.com/~shorlander/files/australis-design... Windows XP: http://people.mozilla.com/~shorlander/files/australis-design... OSX: http://people.mozilla.com/~shorlander/files/australis-design... I personally think…
FYI, these demos only work properly on Firefox.