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Firefox 3 icons preview

December 13, 2007 - 5:20 pm

Mozilla’s Alex Faaborg has posted yet another peek at Firefox 3 extensive visual refresh.

This time he shares a partial collection of the different icon sets Firefox 3 will feature. As reported before, Firefox 3 will break with the restriction of keeping a very tight visual identity across all supported platforms and will instead aim to better integration with the operating systems through dedicated themes.

I have made a couple of mockups to give you an idea of how could Firefox 3 look on Windows XP when the theme updates land.

The first one shows the main navigation bar with the announced bigger back button fused with the forward button to provide a single history navigation interface.

Firefox 3 theme mockup

The second one shows the Options window (again on Windows XP). As a work in progress, the Content icon looks the same as the Main icon and the Privacy icon looks more like a Security icon thanks to the lock. But hopefully you get the idea.

Firefox 3 theme mockup - Options

The Windows icons are being developed by The Iconfactory, an icon design firm responsible for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Xbox and Ubuntu icon sets among others.

The Mac OS X icons are being developed by talented Stephen Horlander and Kevin Gerich, the authors of the original Firefox theme.

For Linux, Tango-styled icons are being created by Andreas Nilsson, Kalle Persson, Ulisse Perusin, Jakub Steiner, and Lapo Calamandrei. While Michael Ventnor and Michael Monrealare tweaking Firefox to use default GTK icons if other than Tango.

Check Alex’s post for complete details. All the icons.


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December 13, 2007 5:20 pm

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Jeton

December 13, 2007 5:20 pm

Honestly, that back buttons will make Firefox look like IE…

And i know it’s not a nice way to judge things, but those XP icons suck.

Why not stick with the current FX2 icons, people have gotten used to them, and they look wayyyy much better that those on the screenshot.

Let’s see what happens with the logo…

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David

December 13, 2007 5:20 pm

Hmm… thankfully the final XP icons will me glossier than those in your mockups.

Don’t take this personally now, but if Firefox will look like your mockup I will make some noise. :P Not in a good way. :)

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wer

December 14, 2007 5:20 pm

keep existing in FF2 icons

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3al

December 14, 2007 5:20 pm

In any case design of Firefox will be changed by users to make it more compatible with design of all applications. I use Mac4lin and my firefox looks like a Safary… I don’t think that I change my preferences with release of FF 3.0

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foxiewire.com

December 14, 2007 5:20 pm

Firefox 3 icons preview : Mozilla Links

Mozilla’s Alex Faaborg has posted yet another peek at Firefox 3 extensive visual refresh. This time he shares a partial collection of the different icon sets Firefox 3 will feature. As reported before, Firefox 3 will break with the restriction of…

Percy Cabello

December 14, 2007 5:20 pm

David, you can count me in for making noise if it looks like my mockup as well. ;)

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Fabio Prado

December 15, 2007 5:20 pm

Horrible…
Jesus, that reload page icon… Come on, Firefox deserves something MUCH better than this. :(

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Lars-Erik Østerud

December 15, 2007 5:20 pm

How does the new BIG back button look with small icons
(and of course with my own minimal look userChrome Smile

Why do you change this. It’s just what I HATE about IE7 and that made me switch to FF :-(

FF looks great the way it is – PLEASE don’t mess it up – or at least leave a “classic” option.

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David McRitchie

December 15, 2007 5:20 pm

sick, very sick, and wastes a heck of a lot of real estate.
Why in the world does everyone have to change functional items to make them harder to recognize and look trashy.

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Simon

December 16, 2007 5:20 pm

OMG!! I’m going to puke
What in the HELL are those ugly icons!!!

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Lars-Erik Østerud

December 16, 2007 5:20 pm

Will there still be “small” icons for the menu/button/urlbar? If there will only be large I’ll screen (and stick with 2.0 or the last 3.0b that has old icons :-)

How about a preview on the small icons? And making the back button same max size as the others in small (16×16). That would make that an option for those wanting to save space?

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Donald Bock

December 26, 2007 5:20 pm

I think the new icons look too much like eye candy… leave them be like FF2.0.

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aubrey

December 26, 2007 5:20 pm

Somebody needs to do another iteration on the main toolbar icons. Those still look like concepts and not like polished, finished product.

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Noun

December 27, 2007 5:20 pm

I don`t like the icons but I like the idea of having icons of different sizes at the same time, on the toolbar.

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Some_Person

January 16, 2008 5:20 pm

EWW! Please get rid of the huge back button!

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Chronus

February 6, 2008 5:20 pm

I honestly like the big back button. There are few reasons to use a forward button and this illustrates it beautifully, I think.
And they’re obviously going to add on the Firefox 2 buttons as a theme, so if you don’t like it, just switch to that.

Personally my complaint is that the Abstract theme isn’t compatible yet, but of course I can wait. :)

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Donald

February 14, 2008 5:20 pm

How come the new theme isn’t on the Linux version?

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James Joseph

April 25, 2008 5:20 pm

I think the new icons look too much like eye candy… leave them be like FF2.0.

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donald

April 26, 2008 5:20 pm

why dosent Firefox 3 on Linux look as good as the windows versions, to be frank i think the Linux theme is ugly when compared to the windows theme.

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Phil

November 13, 2008 5:20 pm

In my opinion, plain white forward back arrows. No taller than the height of the address field.
Small icons are best, because when a single tall icon increases the width of toolbars, it does it at the sacrifice of productivity space. Keeping toolbar icons as close to favicon.ico size is best.
On the options go ahead make the icons bigger.

The good thing is my favorite walnut theme already is doing these things, only my quicknote addon has a large icon that has to be hacked.

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David McRitchieNovember 14th, 2008 at 11:11 am

The back/forward icon can be resized, I work only with small icons and this will make that combination closer to height of other icons, plus remove a lot of wasted space so that the navigation bar uses up only about 1/3 the height, Navigation/Location Bar Presentation Height http://userstyles.org/styles/10881, or Navigation/Location Bar Minimal Height http://userstyles.org/styles/9349 also making it smaller makes it look less trashy.

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