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The future Firefox UI

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Re: The future Firefox UI

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Post by stephank »

I'm not sure what people like about Personas (or the equivalent in other browsers). It always stands out, distracts, and for me even messes up the great website I may be viewing at the time.

I'd be much more interested in a CSS extension that lets websites 'bleed' their background into the browser chrome.

Re: The future Firefox UI

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Post by starwed »

WayneDB wrote: post #30
voxmatt wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's towards the bottom. Just scroll down.

Oh, I see. They have 1 mockup for Windows and the rest are for OS X. Brilliant.

These aren't design blueprints. I don't really know why the OP linked to a set of images without any commentary, but it's obvious from the URL that these were part of a presentation. Showing exactly the same changes on every OS wouldn't have been very useful in that context.

Re: The future Firefox UI

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Post by jeremyarussell »

I hope they allow people to keep the old current look if they'd like. I'm more tired of changing constantly then anything, and I love the UI in firefox now. Not that new ideas shouldn't be tried, just that what's not broken shouldn't be "fixed". And I personally don't like chrome because it seems to simple, so trying to turn into Chrome isn't going to win my vote. (but hey, it's about what the mass wants right?)

Re: The future Firefox UI

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Post by mitchty »

sp332 wrote: post #20
51Cards wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And for me the Chrome UI is the primary reason I can't stand Chrome and stay with FF. Whatever they do to the default layout in FF doesn't bother me, just keep giving me the option to put it back the way I like it. So far, so good... other than needing a plug-in now to get a bottom status bar.

What do you use the bottom statusbar for?

Personally I just hover to see where a link goes at times, but chrome's method of showing the link at the bottom after N milliseconds is more than sufficient. It doesn't need to permanently take up pixels otherwise.

Re: The future Firefox UI

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Post by code_duck »

jbk wrote: post #33
bostonpete wrote: post #9

I can't believe nobody's complaining about the missing dedicated search box. I thought that was everyone's big beef with Chrome. Then again, I haven't used Firefox in quite some time so maybe they've already dropped it.

They haven't dropped it yet. Personally, I don't like this at all, because you never know what information is getting leaked to the search engine...

Actually, you do: In Chrome, you can turn off search autocompletion for the top bar. It will search history and bookmarks, but not contact Google.

Re: The future Firefox UI

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Post by sp332 »

mitchty wrote: post #44
sp332 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you use the bottom statusbar for?

Personally I just hover to see where a link goes at times, but chrome's method of showing the link at the bottom after N milliseconds is more than sufficient. It doesn't need to permanently take up pixels otherwise.

Firefox does the same, now. It's almost like Chrome's but it doesn't expand to show the "middle" of a really long link after a second.

Re: The future Firefox UI

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Post by jgranby »

starwed wrote: post #37
jgranby wrote: post #19

I wonder whether this latest proposed redesign will finally have Firefox behaving like, y'know, a native OS X app, or whether it'll be just as shallow as all previous efforts.

Curious, since I only recently started using a mac. How does firefox not act like a native app?

The whole app feels like an imitation of a Mac app. Most obviously on 10.7, the window chrome is wrong. Other small things like incorrect and wrongly sized fonts inside controls, or the whole menu bar disappearing when you use an extension in its own window. When you add everything together, it just feels wrong, like wearing clothes that don't fit.

The way they've been updating the UI so far has seen some improvements, for sure, but it's as if they've been patching it bit by bit. I just wondered whether this signalled a change of approach.

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