Talk:Firefox/3.7 Windows Theme Mockups

Suggestions

1. Don't use Google Chrome buttons for configuration and control current page on Windows XP, use the same menu as Vista/7?
2. What is the Page button for?
3. A Chrome like Omnibar would be good (In this case, Awesome bar + Omnibar)
4. Go, Stop, Reload would be better as one button, in the place of the Go button.
      - When something is being typed in, show the Go button
      - When a page is loading, show the Stop button
      - When the page is fully loaded, show the Reload button
5. What happened to the status bar?

--Sonnygauran 03:55, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

1. Wouldn't it be nice to assign "hot edges" to the firefox? (Love the screenshots btw)
   1. When you hover your mouse to a specific edge/zone, the relative UI only shows up. This allows the browser to maximize all available space.
      1. Hovering your mouse over the top edge shows the tab bar.
         • After hover:
         • When the mouse nears the titlebar, the main menu shows on top of the tab bar.
           • 
         • We don't need to use both the tab and menu at the same time. ;)
      2. The right edge shows the vertical scrollbar.
      3. The bottom edge shows the horizontal scrollbar.
   2. An alternate view for the tab bar hover:
   3. When you hover, and have a hotkey assigned:
      1. When you hover to any part of the browser and hold the Ctrl, the top-left "fans-out" similar to an OSX dock, or just displays at the top edge, the Navigation Toolbar buttons like back, refresh, etc.
      2. Holding Ctrl + right edge doesn't show the scrollbar, but shows the outline of the document.
         1. Headings (h1, h2, h3) are shown as small glyphs as well as anchors with labeled internal and external links.
            • We can use glyphs to show document outline

Mindless robotic praise

I am in love. Unlike both the Fx 2 and 3 redesigns, I feel absolutely no "out-of-placeness" at first sight. Well done! Bielawski 16:16, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Position of the Buttons: 4 proposals

I like the "Initial Windows Theme Mockups for Firefox 3.7" very much. Here are some proposal/suggestions.

1°) Il like the "tool" button on top right. Personnally, I always use an extension named "compact menu". And I think that this is more or less the same idea: to hide the traditional menu (File, Edit, etc...) and to group all the commands inside a unique "tool" menu. It make the User Interface more clean.

2°) I like the "page" button concept. Great idea. I have remark regarding its position: Actually the "Page" information are like attributes from the URL. So I think that the position on the right of the menu (link in XP screenshot) or ~like a new tab (like on Vista/7 screenshot) are a bit confusing. So I would suggest to put the "Page" button just near the URL box. It seems more logical.

3°) Regarding the button "star" (= "quick bookmark this page"). I have the same proposal: it shall be located just near the URL box because this is an action related to the current page.

4°) I like the idea to be able to display/hide quickly the personal bar. For me this action is similar than opening a new tab. Except that this new tab has to be preloaded with an URL already bookmarked by the user. So, my sugesstion is to treat is in a similar way than the ["+" new tab] button. On the right or the near the ["+" new tab] button.

Please look at the proposal on attached file

Regarding the display/hide quickly the personal shortcut bar, I have another suggestion: when pushing this button, the system could display kind of "bubble" on the forgound with all icones of adress bar (like in the Mac Dock, please look at the 2nd screenshot).

An easier way to do it could be to dispay the personal bar in the same way that the password bar, just on top of the page with a little translation movement from the page.

A last thing : I REALLY like the rounded corners in the URL & Search fields. Please make it available on XP also.

--Freeman31, 22th July 2009 0:22 UTC.

Tab Animations

It would be nice to have tab animations when the user grabs a tab, and rearranges it on the tabs toolbar. An example of this is in Chrome and Safari, where the tabs move themselves accordingly to where the user holds the grabbed tab at the moment. This makes the reorganization of tabs look more smooth. However, there should be an choice in the options page where the user can allow/disable these animations. Also, animations should be added for when tabs are torn from the toolbar, and are either used to make a new window, or join another window's tabs. These animations are also found in Chrome and Safari, and add a nice touch to the browsing experience. These animations would make the browsing on Firefox look more smooth and seamless. --Lmaoxlong 23:53, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Criticism

I feel this design attempts to combine Safari & IE7/8 UI and while quite beautiful, it does not reflect the personalization aspects that make Firefox so great. When you add 6-10 addons (or more) with their related UI additions, have bookmarks toolbar visible for convenience of top 10-12 visited sites a click away, etc etc. The design falls short. I believe this is a case where form should not supersede function. Also: what of Royale Noir for XP?