Eckhard M. Jäger

Nice new Interface of Firefox 4.0

Tuesday, 28. July 2009, 20:41:25

css, linux, firefox, websites, usability, HTML, browser, web development, gui

A first view of possible interface changes of Firefox 4 are available. May they look very simliar to Safari 4 and Opera 10 but i really like these first steps:

I do not know why they choose the ugly Vista screen first but may there is the userbase of the future.

^Video of Desktop Summit Gran Canaria

Comments

Anonymous # 28. July 2009, 21:05

bautz writes:

I like your blog, but you never speak about Hugin.
And now Hugin 0.8.0 is out with great improvements.
http://hugin.sourceforge.net/releases/0.8.0/en.shtml
Bye!

Anonymous # 29. July 2009, 02:23

Julio writes:

Oh my! This is what Firefox really need now!

Anonymous # 29. July 2009, 10:51

Anonymous writes:

Hmmmm. I discovered Vimperator about 6 months ago (it uses vim-style keybindings to navigate Firefox: 'gg' goes to the top of a page; 'G' goes to the bottom; 'space' scrolls one screen-height; 'D' closes a tab; 'u' reopens one). It also hides the entire nav bar (you press 'o' to goto a command line at the bottom of the screen and type in a url or keyword (defaults to google search if it's neither of those).

I'm a complete addict at this point (muscle memory is a wonderful thing); which also means that I'll never see the changes that you're talking about above (slight bummer).

Still: what makes FF so cool hasn't ever been the DEFAULT settings; but the add-ons and plug-ins and general tweakability of the interface.

Personally I'm really looking forward to subprocesses in tabs (like Google Chrome has) because currently Flash under Linux is the crash-tastic bane of my existence!

area42 # 29. July 2009, 12:01

"because currently Flash under Linux is the crash-tastic bane of my existence!" - no problem on variuos note books with different graphic cards using Jaunty.

Wutske # 31. July 2009, 17:09

No real problems with flash either, Flash 9 used to cause a lot problems with Opera under linux, but Flash 10 beta (x64 edition) is a real improvement. It's a lot faster and very stable compared to previous editions.

About the FF4 theme, I don't realy like it, it's too much transparency imho and they're just copying Safari (especialy Tabs on top, which is even more ugly).

area42 # 31. July 2009, 17:46

@Wutske
The "to much transparency" look in this case is owed by the look and feel of ugly Vista. I'm sure on other os's FF4 will look much more solid.

Wutske # 1. August 2009, 07:54

Probably, but not realy a problem for me since I'm a die-hard Opera user