Mozilla Reveals Firefox 4 Plans

Barence writes "Mozilla has given a breakdown of its plans for Firefox 4. Perhaps the most striking change to Firefox 4 is the user interface, which takes a great deal of inspiration from Google Chrome. 'Something UI designers have known for a long time is that the simpler an interface looks, the faster it will seem,' said director of Firefox Mike Beltzner during the presentation. Also mooted was the ability to give applications such as Gmail and Twitter their own permanent tabs for easy access, and the introduction of a 'switch to tab' button, allowing power users running hundreds of tabs to quickly find the one they want. Beltzner said Mozilla was also looking at replicating Chrome's tactic of silently updating the browser in the background, removing the annoying wait when Firefox first loads up."

Comments

Re:H.264 support?

[armanox]

Menu bars are a waist of space - they should appear on the 'ALT' key being pressed or something of the sort. I personally don't use them - keyboard shortcuts are far faster.

Re:Better auto-update

[Ant P.]

Are people running their web browsers as Administrator or root?!

Are you one of those asshole admins who mounts /home noexec so nobody can run their own software instead of the FF2.0.0.0 you ram in their face?

Re:removing annoying wait when Firefox first loads

[porcupine8]

LMAO

The sad part is that the commenter above you was actually serious.