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Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon
Barence writes "Mozilla has announced that its plans to bring Office 2007's Ribbon interface to Firefox, as it looks to tidy up its 'dated' browser. 'Starting with Vista, and continuing with Windows 7, the menu bar is going away,' notes Mozilla in its plans for revamping the Firefox user interface. '[It will] be replaced with things like the Windows Explorer contextual strip, or the Office Ribbon, [which is] now in Paint and WordPad, too.' The change will also bring Windows' Aero Glass effects to the browser." Update: 09/24 05:01 GMT by T : It's not quite so simple, says Alexander Limi, who works on the Firefox user experience. "We are not putting the Ribbon UI on Firefox. The article PCpro quotes talks about Windows applications in general, not Firefox." So while the currently proposed direction for Firefox 3.7 involves some substantial visual updates for Windows users (including a menu bar hidden by default, and integration of Aero-styled visual elements), it's not actually a ribbon interface. Limi notes, too, that Linux and Mac versions are unaffected by the change.
No, wait, I mean that other thing -- lame!
You know what you are?
You're a ribbon bully!
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon
Many To Replace Firefox With Opera
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Dear TheMCP,
I use a PET2001. There are no menus. It has no graphical rendering. I can't even get Lynx to run on it.
This letter has as much to do with the discussion as yours does. Please take your fellatious Mac worship elsewhere.
Love,
Red Flayer
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
No...the problem is the focus group is composed of people who's forehead sticks out
First off, the word you are looking for is "whose". Second, you should have said "foreheads stick out", assuming these "people" you speak of have more members than just you.
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STFU with your facts! We all hate mozilla, now is know time for rational arguments!
IranAir Flight 655 never forget!
I'll wait until the obvious font problem is fixed.
Its the most assinine user-unfriendly POS I have seen since vi.
So your worst nightmare is that Microsoft will one day introduce MS Linux with, say, ribbon-enabled MS Vi 2012?
Ezekiel 23:20
Let's hope they have!
But, I wanted socialized health insurance!
Who? Who doesn't want to use the ribbon?
Too bad, everyone knows there is no alternative, only XUL.
But what a lovely singing Mozilla must have!
table@diningroom:~ $ mv salt seat1 seat3
Expected magic word not found.
table@diningroom:~ $
so what your saying is people who know how to use a computer have to pay for people who don't and are too stupid to learn.
Where the hell is world war III already, damnit!
Hah! True, but the theory behind Bob and Clippy is pretty advanced. It came from Brenda Laurel's analysis of human/computer interaction. Not from Melinda French's... sorry, my mind is simply refusing to imagine Bill Gates in a sexual situation.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
AMEN! There is a reason the 20 something whiz kid shows up the IT personnel, they think about the problem, not memorize the solution.
CS: It is all sink or swim...oh and did I mention there are sharks in that water?
There is no Dana, only XUL.
>>>gt wth th txtng genrtn. & no i wnt gt off yr lwn
Shakespeare is dat u? I lovd ur ply. "O Romeo, denie thy Fathr: Vnto the white vpturned wondring eyes; Of mortalls that fall backe, When he bestrides the lazie puffing Cloudes, And sailes vpon the bosome of the ayre."
Brllint!
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
My what a lovely singing voice you must have!
table@diningroom:~ $ sudo mv salt seat1 seat3
Salt move successful.
table@diningroom:~ $
Follow me
Don't get me started with these bad car analogies. I'm still pissed about moving the high beam switch from the floor to a stupid stick on the steering column.
I keep getting my left foot caught in the steering wheel switching to low beams.
Have gnu, will travel.
Microsoft's flagship product the operating system "Windows" will yet again reach new lows in sucky UIs. Firefox and others to follow suit. Mozilla spokesperson has stated: "We will not be outdone by neither Windows nor Internet Explorer. We promise to bring you a product that surely will eclipse anything Microsoft has ever produced and bring more suck to the world, open source style!".
On a more somber note. Mozilla, stop following Microsoft and do what you originally did with Firefox, outdo them. Seriously can't be that hard, honestly.
Man: Where's my hammer. I always keep it on this hook on my toolrack .... ...
Woman: It looked messy so I thought it would be nicer over there in that drawer.
Man: Aaargh. WTF? Leave my tools alone.
Man: Where's my hammer. I always keep it on this hook on my toolrack
Woman: It looked messy so I thought it would be nicer over there on that shelf.
Man: Aaargh. WTF? Leave my tools alone.
[repeat until ManInsane = TRUE]