Firefox 3 icons preview
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.
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.
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.
Comments
Jeton
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…
3al
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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Percy Cabello
David, you can count me in for making noise if it looks like my mockup as well. ;)
Fabio Prado
Horrible…
Jesus, that reload page icon… Come on, Firefox deserves something MUCH better than this. :(
Lars-Erik Østerud
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.
David McRitchie
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.
Simon
OMG!! I’m going to puke
What in the HELL are those ugly icons!!!
Lars-Erik Østerud
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?
Donald Bock
I think the new icons look too much like eye candy… leave them be like FF2.0.
aubrey
Somebody needs to do another iteration on the main toolbar icons. Those still look like concepts and not like polished, finished product.
Noun
I don`t like the icons but I like the idea of having icons of different sizes at the same time, on the toolbar.
Chronus
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. :)
James Joseph
I think the new icons look too much like eye candy… leave them be like FF2.0.
Phil
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.
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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