Comments on: Firefox 4.0 Interface For Linux Mocked-up (& Peek at Firefox 3.7, too!)

By: it

it — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:15:00 +0000

sorry…. wasn’t clear
just saying that in windows mozilla devs look at the inbuilt compositing and use it

they don’t seem to do that in linux (chrome didn’t do it either) :-(

By: it

it — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:12:00 +0000

i’m sure playing with compiz or some other.
as for 7…..they don’t use metacity :P

when they start focusing on emerald themes life will be much better

By: Dusan

Dusan — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:28:00 +0000

those back/forward buttons are of course impossible with GTK or QT or any other GUI toolkit, you sure can make them look like this, but you will loose “themability” which is core of all UI frameworks, be it on Mac/Win/Linux. If you want so special UI and differ from other applications, you have to go the route of Chromium, and that’s not going to happen anytime soon if at all. but nice mockups, indeed :)

By: Serge

Serge — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:57:00 +0000

“Firefox 4.0 is not due to be released for well over another yeah”

Yeah, right…

By: guray

guray — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:58:00 +0000

Qt gui would be better.However; I’ ve liked the buttons instead of icons

By: guray

guray — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:56:00 +0000

Qt gui would be better.

I’ ve liked the button instead of icons

By: Zio Vic

Zio Vic — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:35:00 +0000

That mockup is by math defition EQUALS to chrome.

Jeez, even the bookmark button is a chrome feature (although needs to be activated with a command line option).

But hey, better this than something worse, if they don’ t have any better idea so be it.

By: club penguin

club penguin — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:54:00 +0000

I can’t use any other browser now except firefox. It just keeps getting better and grabbing more market share too.

By: ray

ray — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:14:00 +0000

I’d rather have consistency… what’s the point of an operating system having a GUI if every app is going to have its own UI. Hiding the menu bar??? That’s not really a decision for an app developer to make in the first place. Let the OS designers work on the OS, please, and app devs stick to their apps. How much time and energy did Kai Krause waste on eye-candying Bryce and then OS X and Vista came along anyway — he would have been more productive offering his services to Apple and Microsoft. If tabs are an improvement on MDI, let the framework engineers implement them for everyone to use as a standard.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:38:00 +0000

This is a terrible idea. This is nothing more than Firefox attempting to imitate Chrome. Why can’t we keep Firefox as it already looks? Or, at the very least, create a unique design for it?Additionally, Firefox has a nice theming/plugin engine. Should the appearance decisions really be made by the Firefox team? Or should it be by the user when they select between different theme add-ons? If the Firefox team wants to add the ability for a theme add-on to select between Chrome-style tabs and traditional tabs, that is great and fine, but they really ought to leave the design and development of the themes to thirdparty developers who make the add-ons.

By: shaffan

shaffan — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:18:00 +0000

is it me or does that mockup seem to look a lot like google chrome?

By: sami

sami — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:10:00 +0000

First one looks like mixture of ie and chrome

By: Guest

Guest — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:19:00 +0000

Yes I do, so what’s your point?

By: emarkay

emarkay — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:30:00 +0000

Enough of this “Dog and Pony show” What about stability and configurability, and did I mention security? More and more things are going to “one button does all” mode, using valuable page space for pointless “pretties” and adding non-productive “fluff”.

Some of us spend a lot of time each release functionalizing the browser desktop; no Flash, no icons (text only) and whatever add-ons we can find to maximize the display area, while still leaving a toolbar and a status bar. No “Awesome” bar, no autocomplete, no geolocation, nothing but a stable and secure environment to accomplish a task.

Look what happened to GM when they found out that “pretty” can still be a fecal mass, and the Orientals keep refining quality.
Will Mozilla need a bailout too in a few years?

By: guest114

guest114 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:23:00 +0000

Do you even know what ubufox is?

By: David

David — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:50:00 +0000

Firefox is the best, rarely crashes and has cool add-ons .

By: Mason

Mason — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:47:00 +0000

It looks like Chrome.

By: David

David — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:57:00 +0000

I would like to see history syncing too.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:48:00 +0000

Learn how to write an article. I couldn’t stand to read past the first few sentences.

By: e cigarette

e cigarette — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:43:00 +0000

Nice Mockup design. Overall it looks great!