Comments on: Firefox 4 Windows theme landing for Beta 1

By: wap-tek

wap-tek — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 11:13:56 +0000

NO status bar in the new firefox = now you are blind ,
the status bar made it easy to tell if a site link
lied about where you were going and this was
just not coperate / advertizer friendly

webgl = require a beta browser = maybe see something

vrml/x3d = use a plugin or viewer
in any browser, = it worked over 10 years ago!

why cant mozilla just use
a generic vrml / x3d plugin
BUT make it FAULT TOLLERANT = as in
ignore the deliberate standards breaking
that the major players did 10 years ago

google , mozilla, and many other “good guys”
jumped the shark or drank the flavoraid

By: Erik Hanson

Erik Hanson — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:15:37 +0000

I’m fine with the new UX changes, and even with the status bar going away, but the one thing I do sort of miss is no title display. You can still hover over the tab and see the tab’s title, but it’s also nice to see it all at once somewhere on screen at all times (especially when I’m developing, where only some small part of the title string will change, say a version number or whatnot)

The nice part is, I’m sure there’s an about:config I can tweak somewhere to make it come back, and that’s really one of the best things about open source and Firefox, right?

By: James

James — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:13:02 +0000

The one big thing for me is that I can’t move the bookmarks button over next to the home button. The layout makes no sense… why arrows pointing to the right when the sub-menu opens to the left?

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:29:00 +0000

Or right click near location bar, and check show menu

By: KX

KX — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:47:47 +0000

Jennifer Boriss has posted several articles on how to handle the many extensions that place icons in the status bar. The current proposition is that whenever a add-on in installed that requires space in the status bar, a “mini” status bar appears at the bottom of the window to house all extension icons.

See the full post and mockups at http://jboriss.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/removing-firefox%E2%80%99s-status-bar-and-rehousing-add-on-icons-part-3-of-2-wut/

By: Aldo "xoen" Giambelluca

Aldo "xoen" Giambelluca — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:05:48 +0000

The “app tab” thing seems cool. I’m curious about the status bar and extensions using it…

By: Astreek

Astreek — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 03:39:22 +0000

I am happy to see the status bar go away! It takes to much space, I want to see the web. I like the one in Chrome, but don’t know how to do something similar in FF, I only found this add on, autoHideStautsBar https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1530/

By: Tyler

Tyler — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:56:46 +0000

Just press ALT button

By: Jal

Jal — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:32:09 +0000

Finally the Firefox 4 beta will be out. It’s been a long time since Firefox 4 has been in the news. Quick quick Mozilla.. can’t wait any longer :D

By: FF Extension Guru

FF Extension Guru — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 21:28:39 +0000

Not too thrilled with removing the status bar. Use that for a lot of my extensions (Brief, Greasemonkey, Stylish, WeatherBug, Vacuum Places Database, IE Tab+, Google Cache).

By: David Naylor

David Naylor — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 21:01:43 +0000

Can’t wait to give the beta a spin!

By: Mohan

Mohan — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 20:27:38 +0000

I been looking forward to FF 4 for sometime now, mainly because of the UI, and I like where it’s going.

By: Chaz6

Chaz6 — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 19:35:53 +0000

I updated minefield today (3.7a6pre win32) and now the “Help -> Check for updates” item is missing.