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Fast forward to 4.0 with a new Firefox theme

by Lee Mathews Aug 10th 2009

Not long ago a DeviantArt user put together a Firefox 3/3.5 theme based on Mozilla's concept for Firefox 3.7. Want to go the extra .3 and jump ahead to version 4? Take a look at Strata40.

By using the them in conjunction with a few Firefox addons - All Glass, Personal Menu, Fission, Omnibar, and Stylish - and following some lengthy but simple instructions you'll have yet another slick, futuristic look for your browser. The complete rundown is available on SpewBoy's DevArt page. I didn't adhere strictly to the 4.0 look (I added bookmarks and downloads buttons), but you're free to tweak the layout to your liking.

As before, don't forget to change the FF window title text using Titlebar Tweak or Nightly Tester Tools to make the illusion even more believable. You'll need NTT anyway to get the theme working on Firefox 3.6, so you may as well have some fun with it.

[via Tweaking with Vishal]

Tags: design, deviantart, firefox-4, mockup, skins, theme

Filed under: Mozilla, Browsers

Mozilla teases us with Firefox 4.0 mockups

by Brad Linder Jul 28th 2009

Mozilla drummed up a fair amount of interest in a future version of the Firefox web browser a few weeks ago by posting a mockup photo showing a handful of new features that could be included in Firefox 3.7. But the Firefox team is looking even further ahead. Yesterday a few images of a Firefox 4.0 mockup hit the Mozilla Wiki.

One image shows a Google Chrome-like tab menu which actually hangs out above the navigation bar. This layout saves space, providing you with more room for the browser window. But it also involves removing the page title bar.

Another concept shows a combination stop/refresh/go button attached to the location bar. When you're typing a URL, you'll see a green arrow button that you can hit to visit the URL in question. While a page is still loading, you'll see a red X button that you can hit to stop the page from loading. And when you're already on a web site, it'll show a refresh arrow.

These are just concepts at the moment, and may or may not eventually make their way into the web browser.

[via CNet]

Tags: concept, firefox-4.0, mockup, tabs

Filed under: Windows, Mozilla, Beta, Browsers

Mozilla offers first look at potential Firefox 3.7 theme, features

by Brad Linder Jul 20th 2009

Firefox 3.5 is still warm, but those crazy kids at Mozilla are already working on future versions of the browser. This weekend the team posted an image on the Mozilla wiki showing a mockup of 3 new potential features for the Windows version Firefox 3.7:

Toolbar and tabs using Windows Vista and Windows 7's Aero Glass effects, including glossy, translucent buttons
Page button on the left side of the tab area with options connected to the page
Tools and Bookmark bars on the right side of the window that you can use to toggle the bookmark menu or customize the user interface

This is just a mockup, and it's possible that only some of these features will be in the finished product. Or none of them. You can also see a conceptual picture showing the browser with the page and tool buttons but without the Aero Glass effects and another set of images showing what the Windows XP version of the browser might look like.

[via Mashable]

Tags: areo-glass, firefox, firefox-3.7, mockup

Filed under: Mozilla, Browsers

Could the future of Firefox be a browser without tabs?

by Brad Linder Apr 14th 2009

The people behind the Firefox web browser have been thinking long and hard about the way it handles browser tabs for a few months now. Most of the discussion has centered around how new tabs should behave. Should they show a blank screen? RSS updates? A list of frequently visited pages? But one developer has a novel idea: what if Firefox didn't have any tabs at all?

Yeah, I know what you're thinking. Once upon a time Firefox, Internet Explorer, and all the other browsers didn't have tabs. Life has become much simpler since tabs were invented. But developer Oliver Reichenstein says browser tabs worked well back when we'd only have a few web pages open at a time. Now that it's not uncommon for users to have a dozen or more tabs, it's increasingly difficult to tell what's going on in the browser tab bar or find the tab you're looking for.

Reichenstein created a mockup of a version of Firefox that looks a lot like iTunes. Instead of tabs and bookmarks, you could tag web pages to make it easy to sort or search for pages by category. Each time you click on a link it would take you to the page as you last visited it.

Somehow I doubt we'll see Mozilla take this radical a departure from the common browser tab in time for the launch of Firefox 3.5. But perhaps a no-tab interface could be available as an option in future builds.

[via ReadWriteWeb]

Tags: concept, firefox, itunes, mockup, tabs

Filed under: Internet, Mozilla, Open Source

A sneak peek at the Firefox 2.0 UI

by Jordan Running Mar 3rd 2006

"The default [user interface] of Firefox has not been altered since the launch of Firefox 1.0. It would be presumptuous to assume that the way in which users interact with their browsers has gone unchanged between that time and our planned 3Q2006 release date for [Firefox 2.0], and even more presumptuous for us to assume that we got things 100% right with Firefox 1.0." That's how Mozilla's Mike Beltzner starts a post to the Firefox development newsgroup in which he describes the changes he and his fellow developers have in mind for the next major release Firefox. In his post he includes an interesting (and kinda retro) ASCII mock-up that displays some of the proposed changes, like moving the Go, Reload and RSS buttons inside the URL bar to better show their relationship to the current page, moving the Home button and bookmarks search into the personal bookmark toolbar, and so on. Click the link for Beltzner's complete proposal and several pages of commentary from the Mozilla developer community.

[Via Digg]

What's coming in Firefox 2.0

Tags: 2.0, firefox, gui, hci, mockup, ui

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