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Starting with Vista, and continuing with Windows 7, the menubar | Starting with Vista, and continuing with Windows 7, the menubar has been systematically removed from Windows applications built by Microsoft and other vendors. It has been replaced with alternatives like the Windows Explorer contextual strip or the Ribbon found in Office 2007. The Ribbon UI is now also used in Paint and Wordpad for Windows 7. Many apps still retain the menubar as an option to be pinned or to be shown briefly by holding the Alt key. | ||
Firefox isn't the type of application that necessarily has contextual actions in the same way Windows Explorer does. So how to handle the functionality of the menubar if it is hidden? Chrome and Safari (and to a lesser extent IE7 & 8) have solved this by sorting, trimming and collecting the menubar functionality into two separate buttons. One of these buttons has items that apply to the webpage and another to the application itself. Now they don't always agree on which item should go in which menu, but the general principal is sound. This is a good solution. | Firefox isn't the type of application that necessarily has contextual actions in the same way Windows Explorer does. So how to handle the functionality of the menubar if it is hidden? Chrome and Safari (and to a lesser extent IE7 & 8) have solved this by sorting, trimming and collecting the menubar functionality into two separate buttons. One of these buttons has items that apply to the webpage and another to the application itself. Now they don't always agree on which item should go in which menu, but the general principal is sound. This is a good solution. | ||
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''Hiding of the menubar by default would only occur on Vista and Windows 7. Windows XP would retain the menubar by default as would Linux and of course Mac. Holding Alt on Vista/7 would show the menu (which can also be toggle on)''. | ''Hiding of the menubar by default would only occur on Vista and Windows 7. Windows XP would retain the menubar by default as would Linux and of course Mac. Holding Alt on Vista/7 would show the menu (which can also be toggle on)''. | ||
== Bookmarks Changes == | == Bookmarks Changes == | ||