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Firefox 3.7 to replace menu bar with Chrome-like page, tools menus
A few months ago the folks at Mozilla released a mockup showing some proposed design changes for Firefox 3.7. Foremost among them was a redesigned navigation area that replaced the traditional menu bar (file, edit, view and so on) with two drop-down menus, one for Page and another for Tools. You know, kind of like Google Chrome has.Now the Firefox team has released an updated series of mockups that look even more like Google Chrome by placing both the page and tools menus right next to the location bar. This layout saves screen real estate and lets you use a larger portion of the browser window for viewing web pages.
The new browser layout also includes a combined stop/reload button and removes the Home button from the toolbar, instead placing it in the tab area. The Windows version of the browser will also make better use of Aero Glass in Windows Vista and Windows 7.
The new page/tools design will first show up in the Windows Vista and Windows 7 versions of Firefox 3.7 which is due out in March of 2010.
[via ZDNet]
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Subscribe to commentsSalimane Adjao MoustaphaSep 23rd 2009 4:16PM
"The new page/tools design will first show up in the Windows Vista and Windows 7 versions of Firefox 3.7 which is due out in March of 2010."
Another blow for linux and open source, well since we copying chrome, why not do the same , the browser is very good and usable on windows while the linux version is behind.. nice work
viky.prabakaranSep 23rd 2009 4:35PM
Now, everyone started copying internet explorer styled buttons, not Chrome styled. First chrome copied from IE and modified then everyone ( Safari, now Firefox doing same).
JoshSep 23rd 2009 4:57PM
As long as they don't get rid of the OS X menubar (some apps do just have the App name and nothing else, though it is rare and only on small apps) and give the option to remove the buttons like they have now, I am fine with it.
BubbalitzSep 23rd 2009 7:13PM
Why don't you just come out and say you are cloning IE 8? Much easier to get it off your chests and move on.
qwertyblueSep 24th 2009 8:01AM
I really like the app tabs idea for 4.0, ive always got gmail, simplemail tab and google docs open so that would be a handy space saver
whiskeySep 28th 2009 8:01AM
Make it an easily opt-in option and then we'll be cool with it.
dashmercatpOct 9th 2009 8:09AM
Yes, I could just install extensions. I don't need any more extensions. Extensions slow the loading time of the browser and utilize unnecessary memory overhead. Seriously, cut this crap out, and just leave the menus the way they always have been, where everybody already knows where they are. This oversimplification of the UI increases time spent digging through menus, rather than making anything more efficient. I'll take efficiency of use over screen use any day. Screw this condensed menus crap.
Besides, I'm still waiting for them to fix the many problems Firefox has been experiencing on my OS X 10.5.8 MacBook Pro. It crashes like every ten minutes, even with all plugins disabled. It crashes when I run Facebook. It crashes when I load a flash video. It crashes when I switch tasks to another program. Hence, why I have been forced to use Safari for months now, as it almost never crashes. Except with Facebook. It's not even normal crashing, either. I get a strange overly-verbose crash dialog that resembles a suppressed kernel panic. What is Firefox trying to do to my computer?
Anyway...the point is: knock it off. Ease-of-use over fancy looks. Period. Function first, form second.
AkoOct 13th 2009 2:48PM
yeah, IE-like u would've better said.