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Re: Firefox RC2 Tabs UI

Your Face — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 02:43:58 -0000

What are you talking about? Mozilla put the shiny tabs in long before anyone had even seen IE7!

Re: Firefox RC2 Tabs UI

sbt — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 02:54:29 -0000

userchrome info is scattered. ask at mozillazine. i agree, ff1 had good iconage. ff2 is washed out. however, they're trying to add functionality, by adding states (better than just 2 states: gray when non-hovered, colorful when hovered). I've also had the impression that a lot of the ui changes (not necessarily for better) have come from mac os's.

And only The Shadow knows from whom apple steals ui concepts, a-hahahahahaha.

Re: Firefox RC2 Tabs UI

nonhocapito — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 05:16:01 -0000

What a guy who hates all the distracting and silly gradients has to do these days? I hate al the round corners and the gradient surfaces! and yet they seem to be mandatory these days.
Does anyone knows how to get rid of these gradients and have the old firefox toolbars back?
Maybe a userchrome snippet? How that background is forced onto those tabs?
sigh...

Re: Firefox RC2 Tabs UI

Matt — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:04:34 -0000

I think the tab X came from Safari on the Mac and an extension some had done for Firefox 1.0. It may (or may not) have been in development at the same time MS was doing IE7's tab implementation.

Re: Firefox RC2 Tabs UI

shorty114 — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 19:27:43 -0000

And what's up with the image after your post that seems to do nothing? (You can't click it, it doesn't tell you anything... Just wondering.)

Now that I've posted a comment, the top icon changed to an envelope with a heart...

Re: Firefox RC2 Tabs UI

shorty114 — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 19:26:33 -0000

Personally, I prefer the Firefox 2 tabs. I've always favored silver over blue for these sort of things. Maybe it's because I use a Mac a lot...

I don't like the rest of the Firefox 2 UI, though (especially the toolbar buttons), but I don't know if they've improved it since I last looked at it, around RC1.