Firefox 4.0 Goes Chrome, New UI In Q4 2010 556
sv_libertarian writes "Mozilla recently updated its product roadmap through 2010. According to the first draft, the current browser will see a minor update in Q4 2009 and another in Q2 2010. Version 4.0 is headed for an October or November 2010 release and will bring a new user interface and browser sync integration. 'There is not much information on [what] this new user interface will look like, but the first mockups that have been posted on Mozilla's website suggest that the Mozilla team favors a Google Chrome-like design that integrates Windows 7 graphics features. Overall, window elements seem to be floating over the background.' The mockup page emphatically notes that the design is not final."
Re:Tabs on top, do it NOW! (Score:5, Funny)
No. Tabs should be diagonal. The obvious advantages of this are so obvious that I don't need to mention them. It can be mathematically proven, too, that diagonal tabs are the most aesthetic and comfortable layout. If you weren't so educated stupid by evil educators, you would realize the power of the four-corner diagonal tab.
Re:of all the things to copy from Chrome (Score:2, Funny)
"Windows usability standards"
You were shooting for the newest oxymoron? Ohhhh-kay.
Re:Tabs on top, do it NOW! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Tabs on top, do it NOW! (Score:3, Funny)
... if they go with the tabs on top and no titlebar, if only as an option, I am back on board...
Just as a counterpoint, I decidedly don't like the tabs-on-top design...
Tabs should be down the side...
I think tabs should be smack dab in the middle of the page.
Re:Tabs on top, do it NOW! (Score:5, Funny)
Tabs should be diagonal.... It can be mathematically proven, too, that diagonal tabs are the most aesthetic and comfortable layout.
Just get the Cantor Diagonal Tab add-on. It lets you have more tabs then you can count.
Re:Tabs on top, do it NOW! (Score:5, Funny)
I can see how diagonal tabs might seem sensible, but have we become so mired in the UI design rut that we're unable to take the concept of tabs to its logical conclusion?
What is needed is for the tabs to be split out of the application and handled by a hardware peripheral. Something with tactile feedback when you activate tabs. Mozilla International have conducted research (I lost the link but you can Bing it) that shows that people with alternating yellow and black tabs are paid 12.5% more on average.
So, yellow and black, and hardware. Caterpillar, fill this market need!
Re:Tabs on top, do it NOW! (Score:5, Funny)
Your post contains twelve sentences. The majority of those sentences (seven) end in exclamation points. This is in a post regarding tab placement in computer software.
You really need to switch to decaf. Seriously.
Re:Why transparency? (Score:2, Funny)
I can just smear my glasses with Vaseline and minimize Firefox.
Wouldn't it be easier to just remove you glasses?
Re:Tabs on top, do it NOW! (Score:3, Funny)
If you weren't so educated stupid by evil educators, you would realize the power of the four-corner diagonal tab.
Browser has simultaneous four corner TAB CUBE in only 24 minute browsing session. 4 CORNER TAB, CUBE BROWSER.
BROWSER'S HARMONIC SIMULTANEOUS 4 CORNER TAB CUBE IS THE ONLY WAY!