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Mozilla Ponders Major Firefox UI Refresh
CWmike writes "Mozilla is working on a revamp of Firefox to synchronize its various versions — desktop, tablet, phone and Windows 8 Metro — into a single visual style, according to documents posted by members of its user interface (UI) design team. The project, which does not have a name, and the earlier blending of Mozilla's mobile and desktop design groups, is meant to bring more coherence to the various versions of the open-source browser. 'One of our major goals for the year [is] getting Firefox to feel more like one product — more 'Firefoxy' — across all our platforms, desktop to tablet to phone,' Madhava Enro of the Mozilla UI design team, said in a post to his personal blog on Tuesday. Enro posted a slideshow he and others used the week before to present their proposals at a company get-together. According to the presentation, some UI elements will be shared across all Firefox editions, among them a lean toward 'softer texture' and smoother curves in the design."
You realize you can change the Windows version to behaving like it used to, by turning on the menu bar in the view options? And that you can get the Linux version to behave like the Windows version by turning off the menu bar and enabling a sidebar?
The menu bar rendering on Windows has been broken/fugly since FF4
Looks seriously unprofessional and quite obviously broken, but as the menubar is off by default, nobody's bothered to fix it.
No worries, Firefox won't have a Twitter button. What you see in the mockup are a number of App tabs. You can simply right-click a tab and tell the browser to keep it there. The tab title gets reduced to the icon. This is a generic mechanism and not specific to any webpage or service. The mechanism already exists in the current versions of Firefox.
The protocol only gets hidden for http / https and the rest of the features are all there.
If you complain without bothering to check the facts, you do, indeed, sound like a cranky old man.
Tree Style Tabs
Ive had it for years... (Google it)
I don't read your sig. Why are you reading mine?