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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
(Unverified)Dec 22nd 2009 8:15PM
Stop destroying the GUI for goodness sakes! Leave the menu bar the F%$^ alone! Give me back the go button without having to hack the user chrome file! Honestly, getting rid of the go button that I use every few minutes and replacing it with a bookmark button that I use every few weeks is NOT good design.
ONLY tabs belong on the tab bar, stop moving all the controls all over the freaking place! Back, forward, reload, stop, home, downloads, new tab, and print belong ABOVE the location bar bar. The bookmarks toolbar belongs to the RIGHT of the location bar. The search bar and extension based buttons belong to the right of the main buttons bar above the bookmarks toolbar. The tabs bar belongs on the bottom and the file menu belongs on the top.
Minimizing the GUI for the sake of minimizing the GUI is massively counter-productive because all these changes are NOT intuitive to the average NON-TECHNICAL user. Really, if you want to have absolutely no GUI and get rid of everything that's useful then manually disable it yourself after installation but don't screw over 99.9% of everyone else on the face of the planet by this misplaced overly fanatical sense of minimalism.
(Unverified)Dec 22nd 2009 9:25PM
its called pressing enter on the keyboard, heard of it?
(Unverified)Dec 22nd 2009 11:47PM
Pressing the go button requires one action, clicking the go button. For pressing enter to work with only one action requires the address bar/location bar to already have focus which is not always the case.
techpopsDec 25th 2009 11:43AM
I think you've got things the wrong way round there. Less options tend to make for an easier experience for new users. More options tend to make things more complex.
Microsoft have clearly put the time in working out what works better in Windows. Windows 7's numerous tweaks are a great example of how simplifying things makes for a more usable OS. Makes sense to me and obviously made sense to Microsoft looking at the feedback they got. One of the largest studies of OS usability ever conducted if I remember rightly.
Mozilla are obviously not just throwing out elements for the hell of it. Every change will be debated at length and in the end, what they believe works better is what we'll get.
People like you who prefer things to stay the same because that's just the way it is. Well mostly you can change Firefox back to the way you like it, even if you have to get your hands dirty in a config file or two along the way. It's not like you have to do it more than once and then you're back to samey old bliss.
(Unverified)Dec 25th 2009 2:32PM
There will always be more people who do not know then people who do, thus you should always cater first and foremost to those who do not know. Hiding critical GUI items simply means those options do not exist unless a person is shown by someone else that they do and that rarely ever happens.