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.
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December 13th, 2007 at 5:53 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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December 13th, 2007 at 6:53 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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December 14th, 2007 at 5:18 am
keep existing in FF2 icons
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December 14th, 2007 at 6:50 am
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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December 14th, 2007 at 9:11 am
David, you can count me in for making noise if it looks like my mockup as well. ;)
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December 15th, 2007 at 10:15 am
Horrible…
Jesus, that reload page icon… Come on, Firefox deserves something MUCH better than this. :(
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December 15th, 2007 at 11:58 am
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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December 15th, 2007 at 12:37 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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December 16th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
OMG!! I’m going to puke
What in the HELL are those ugly icons!!!
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December 16th, 2007 at 7:27 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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December 26th, 2007 at 1:43 am
I think the new icons look too much like eye candy… leave them be like FF2.0.
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December 26th, 2007 at 12:08 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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December 27th, 2007 at 2:26 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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January 16th, 2008 at 12:13 am
EWW! Please get rid of the huge back button!
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February 6th, 2008 at 4:02 am
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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February 14th, 2008 at 1:02 am
How come the new theme isn’t on the Linux version?
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April 25th, 2008 at 10:44 am
I think the new icons look too much like eye candy… leave them be like FF2.0.
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April 26th, 2008 at 3:34 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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