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 This would help reduce the need for me to have account notifier add-ons for Gmail (and other web apps like Twitter), removing a couple opportunities for memory leaks and compatibility issues. --[[User:KWierso|KWierso]] 05:26, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
+=Save the Menu Bar!=
+While the menu bar may be somewhat cluttered, and could use some reorganization, it is one of the most enduring features of GUI design in general simply because it works so well. It is a very effective way to organize settings and functions.
+While the new GUI design for 4.0 is amazing, it could still be done while preserving most of the traditional menus. Here's my suggestion on how that could be done:
+Overall, the UI slimming is a good thing; we need to preserve that idea.
+I agree with the sentiment that there are too many menus; the File and Edit menus can be combined into one Page menu, the History and Bookmarks into one Organizer Menu, and Help and some File menu options into one Application menu. Obviously the exact rearrangement is immaterial to this post.
+Furthermore, the idea of a new Add-ons menu is very good.
+This leaves us with six menus: Application, Page, Organizer, View, Tools, and Add-ons. (The application menu will probably be placed in a special location, so it is immaterial to this idea.)
+I propose that the address bar be modified to "roll up" and only show the site name (the text and logo displayed for sites, such as this one which reads 'mozilla.org'), as the user does not need to constantly see the web address, but might want to see the site name.
+In the area where the address bar now is, stylized buttons representing each of these menu items would be placed. Technically, this does remove the menu bar, but it does allow the same functions to be accessed in a similar manner.
+If the address bar web site icon was hovered over or clicked, the address bar would roll out, compressing the menu buttons.
+This suggestion would retain easy and immediate access to the address bar, while also retaining important features of the intuitive menu bar. It also slims the UI area, which is one of the important aspects of this GUI redesign.
+I have been a Firefox user since early on, a FF fan "when Firefox wasn't cool", so to speak. But if Firefox switches from a intuitive menu bar style to a similar system to IE8's contorted mess (making it the worst of all MS browsers), I will be forced to find another browser.
+--[[User:Linuxer|Linuxer]] 19:29, 6 January 2010 (UTC)