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Firefox 4 UI update brings snazzy, new alert pop-ups
The new alerts fit well with Firefox 4's default Strata theme, and they definitely look nicer than those with the native Windows chrome. The blur effect is also a nice tweak, and it helps ensure your focus goes where it should when an alert box appears -- to the alert.
Download a nightly build of Firefox 4 to see the alerts in action. To test, just visit a page like this one and paste javascript:window.alert("Downloadsquad copypasta for testing shiny new Firefox 4 alerts") in your address bar and hit the enter key.
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Subscribe to commentsmotangNov 20th 2010 2:58PM
Pretty cool, and I ran this on 64bit Ubuntu 10.10.
war59312Nov 20th 2010 6:19PM
Yuck!!!
Microsoft is getting it right with IE 9. Firefox should follow.
Alerts should never get in your way!
pianom4nNov 20th 2010 6:36PM
The IE 9 thing is alerts from the browser (this site needs X plugin, this site is requesting your location, this site wants to store data, do you want to save this password?). That's completely different from this.
This is when the page alerts you (using the javascript "alert()" function). This is like when Gmail says "Your draft is unsaved, are you sure you want to quit?", or when playlist.com says "Leaving this page will stop the music".
hectormaciasa79Nov 21st 2010 2:47PM
They are ALERTS, are meant to be noticed, not ignored.
fluffy88Nov 20th 2010 7:04PM
It looks nice and all BUT
I write JavaScript codes and when they get long and difficult its quite useful to use alerts to show you what something is or where you are and so on....
These alerts seems to be alot slower to open and close than the older alert, which will cause some issues when using alerts in loops.
If you try the code below in the lastest nightly compared to a beta build or 3.x you will see there is a long wait between alerts with the new style.
javascript:for(i=0;i
Ken SaundersNov 21st 2010 4:34PM
They're pretty sweet looking.
There does seem to be a bit of a delay when they open, but they're in a nightly version. I'd imagine that things will be tweaked.
annoyingposter4Nov 22nd 2010 11:22PM
do you realize that every article posted on this site is 4 days older than every other tech blog on the internet? please stick to the download articles and stop spamming my google reader inbox with days old reposts