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Feedback Sought for Proposed Mobile Firefox UIs

Posted by Soulskill on from the firefox-to-go dept.

jangel writes to give us a look at the prototype UIs for Mobile Firefox, which is currently under development. Mozilla project lead Doug Turner has asked for opinions on the design. Quoting: "Comments on the Wiki provide an idea of the choices the developers still have to make. For example, should the chevron at the right of the toolbar open a history page listing the most recently viewed pages, or -- as on desktop Firefox -- merely a list of most frequently typed URLs? And should "full screen" mode hide everything except the page being browsed, or retain the lowermost toolbar? Turner writes that while the user interfaces shown are merely starting points, 'going from the pretty pictures that Photoshop can produce to something that is functional is easy with the Mozilla platform. Building functional prototypes ... using only Javascript, XML, CSS, and images is really awesome.'"

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  1. Full Screen by jrumney · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Full screen should definitely hide everything. That's the way every other mobile browser works. The bottom toolbar is only useful for telling you what the bottom 2 or 3 softkeys are used for, once you've used the browser a couple of times, it's just using up valuable screen real estate.

  2. Address-bar dropdown list by QuickFox · · Score: 2, Insightful

    should the chevron at the right of the toolbar open a history page listing the most recently viewed pages, or -- as on desktop Firefox -- merely a list of most frequently typed URLs? Apparently he means the chevron which in the desktop version is at the right of the address field. It's unfortunate that this dropdown list keeps track only of typed urls. It would be much better if it kept track of the urls that were most recently invoked by typing or by using the dropdown list, most recent first. When you often use the dropdown list for a certain url, you want that url at the top of the list, you don't want it wandering down lower and lower in spite of your frequent usage.
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  3. memory by mattwarden · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe some of the memory optimizations will creep its way into the main codebase.