Comments on: New Firefox 3.7 Design Suggestions Posted

By: JLee Jones

JLee Jones — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:32:15 +0000

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By: Gary M. Mugford

Gary M. Mugford — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:07:04 +0000

It seems to me that the most radical AND beneficial change to Firefox would be a dual-window interface. On the left would be the FULL navigation suite of menus, toolbuttons, bookmarks etc. On the right would be a single bordered (think resizable dialog box) browser window that would go from top to bottom of the screen. No caption bar. No min/max/close buttons. No statusbar at the bottom. Just a maximization of the screen depth to limit scrolling as much as possible.

The totality of the controls would be in the left-hand bar (adjustable to right side for those so-inclined, of which I would be one). The menu would occupy a button in the upper left. Major buttons would be beside it and below it on a user-configurable basis. Then would come the url field and then the active bookmarkbar, configurable as scrollable, wrapped or non-visible. Then you would have a bookmarks area and finally a stacked statusbar.

This design acknowledges the wide-screen format’s growing domination. The major issue would be the diminution of the url bar, but that’s what tool tips are for. Scrolling is, and always WILL be, the major bane of web browsers. Wide screen monitors are fine for viewing movies, but I find myself perennially wishing just a little bit more of the site would show, so I could click the NEXT button in Google, rather than scrolling to it first.

And besides, SOOOO many people seem to maximize their web browsers on wide-screen monitors, despite the fact that the reading area is either way smaller or that trying to read anything written across the full width of such monitors is an exercise in ping-pong headache-making.

By: hal9000

hal9000 — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:24:39 +0000

i use a add on that i forget the name off but it emulates the way safari has a progress bar behind the url…
it’s great – it takes up no more space and i have added the little blue fade graphic instead of the default plain colours so it even looks as sexy as safari.
Why add more crap – this is a step back rather than fwd.
Aslo i run a minimised ff install with no bookmark bar.
One thing i alway do though is creat a new bar with the url and search bar in it as those are the two most important things.
Oh i always add the new tab icon to the far left before the back button as well.

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Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:14:40 +0000

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By: tinwheeler

tinwheeler — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:12:08 +0000

I’m sorry, I missed the part where M$ bought out Firefox. Doesn’t the Mozilla team realize that Firefox users are using Firefox because they DON’T want IE 8?

By: kalmly

kalmly — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:56:36 +0000

So tired of seeing GUI updates that take up yet more space – usually by adding yet another handy dandy toolbar – with chunky buttons. I use my menu bar. It is small. I don’t use bookmarks. I have a bookmark manager. Doesn’t everyone? The new improved version allows for keeping the menu bar does it allow for ridding oneself of that extra toolbar? I like to see some of a website’s page.

How about thinking slim.