Comments on: Firefox 3 Alpha 5 is out

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:35:24 +0000

I am converting over to Firefox and going to recommend all my customers do as well. The only thing holding me back is the Adobe Acrobat save a Web page as PDF button that installs into IE. I use this button all the time and so do my customers. I know I can get around it by using the print to PDF option, but it is nice to have a one click button in the browser. I wish Adobe would add Firefox to their installation…

I think Firefox is a great product, keep up the great work!

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By: Bram

Bram — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 11:06:05 +0000

You’re probably right and it might happen in a/the big UI overhaul. Don’t know whether is has real priority among the developers (I haven’t seen it on the feature list either).

By: Percy Cabello

Percy Cabello — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:26:08 +0000

I as well would like to see a new tab button available in the tab bar. I guess a bug must have been files already but couldn’t find it in a quick search.

By: Bram

Bram — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:50:30 +0000

Nice overview of the last alpha release!

“Among the long list of other bug fixes I noticed a curious but useful one: as you may know, you can create a new tab by double clicking an empty area in the tab bar. However if you accidentally triple click, the third click could happen on the close button of the recently opened tab thus closing it which may be confusing for users trying this trick for the first time. It has been corrected. Itâ€™s nice to see this kind of attention to detail.”

Indeed, nice to see, but I’m wondering whether there will be a easy to see / discover way to open a new tab. A lot of new users would benefit from that. It can be as simple as a button (like in Opera and IE). Is there such a bug filed already?

By: Percy Cabello

Percy Cabello — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:39:48 +0000

Matt, what’s the questioning? I’ve seen the mockups and so far, regarding places, they are all proposals for including tagging in the bookmarking process.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:24:16 +0000

One-click bookmarking? Take a look at this!There's more detail on the UI proposals here and here. Looks good!

By: Jeff Staple

Jeff Staple — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:51:21 +0000

Ah, that explains some things. After posting my initial comment I went and downloaded to build, but could never find Places. I was very confused there for a while.

Thanks for the info though. I’ll keep that in mind

By: Percy Cabello

Percy Cabello — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:54:36 +0000

Jeff, the thing is there’s nothing to take a screenshot of yet. So far all the work regarding Places has focused on infrastructure.

I think we can all rest assure bookmarking will be kept as a single click task.

By: Jeff Staple

Jeff Staple — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:21:32 +0000

Having not seen any screenshots of the Places interface, I’m a bit leery of the feature. The way it’s described sounds potential revolutionary, but at the same time too radically different. I like the idea of clicking a menu item and having a drop-down list of my bookmarks. With a small number of exceptions, I only bookmark the sites I visit most often. Everything else is relegated to del.icio.us. It almost sounds like an extra step is being added to bookmarks. If I lose that drop-down simplicity I may just stick with Firefox 2