Comments on: First look to Firefox theme refresh for Mac OS X

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:49:43 +0000

What exactly is your problem with the tabs on top feature Mr. Lizard? Some people actually “like” the feature. It will probably be an available option to have tabs on top or on the bottom, like it should have been but wasn’t in Safari, all because some users were very vocal about wanting the tabs on the bottom. As for OS integration, I don’t exactly see how that would change too much or at all.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:59:35 +0000

I see no reason why the stop and reload buttons should not be combined.

Anyway, this looks really nice. Especially with the small buttons.

By: Mohan

Mohan — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:28:14 +0000

I like the changes, and kinda so far like the tab above the URL bar…I have to see it in action though.

By: KX

KX — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:37:35 +0000

If, by "load button" you mean the "go" button at the end of the location bar, they do intend combine the reload, stop, and go buttons, but not until Firefox 4.0. See this for more information.

By: KX

KX — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:14:22 +0000

I thought I'd mention that when I said "discussion," I meant little more than an explanation of the direction for UI design of Firefox 3.7 and 4.0, posted on the Mozilla Wiki. In other words, please do not edit in your opinions of the proposed direction on the wiki page itself. A better solution may be to add your comments to the talk page for the Mozilla Wiki article, found here. I am only mentioning this because I don't want anyone getting mad at me if you took my comment to mean that you could edit the Mozilla Wiki page I had linked to, which you definitely shouldn't do. Also, I'd like to say that it is intended for tabs on top to be an option in Firefox 4.0. I don't know whether Firefox will have this option turned on my default, but it should be possible to revert the change if you dislike having your tabs above the toolbars.

By: Tree

Tree — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:47:45 +0000

Noooo, don’t combine the stop and reload buttons! Combine the reload button with the load button. It makes so much more sense.

By: Mr Lizard

Mr Lizard — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:58:54 +0000

I certainly hope the aim for Fx 4.0 isn’t to make it look like the Windows version, especially after the hard work that went into making Fx 3.0 fit in with the respective operating systems.

I appreciate the link to the UI discussion and I will contribute there :-)

By: KX

KX — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:55:52 +0000

The tabs on top for Firefox 4.0 has already been discussed for Windows, this post is merely adding equivalent mockups for version 4.0 under Macintosh. The possibility of tabs on top has already been mentioned on Mozilla Links here, and a discussion of the proposed theme and UI changes for Firefox 3.7 and 4.0 can be found here.

By: Mr Lizard

Mr Lizard — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:57:02 +0000

“In Firefox 4.0, the most dramatic change is moving the tab bar above the navigation bar,”

No. Way.

Apple abandoned this after slipping it into a beta of Safari.

You should be aiming for OS integration. Please, don’t just ‘do a chrome’.

“Main changes (in case you donâ€™t notice them):

* tabs hanging from the toolbar”

That’s been the case since Firefox 3.0?

By: David Naylor

David Naylor — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:23:22 +0000

I believe the tabs are haning from the toolbar already.
http://alexseifert.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/firefox-3-beta-1.png