Firefox 3 UI on Linux

Our New Zealand-based summer intern Michael Ventnor has a great post covering many of the UI improvements that Firefox 3 will have on Linux: The Fox and the Penguin

Awesome work Michael!

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5 comments

  1. Mikee
    January 10, 2008 at 7:35 am

    Has there been any new news about the Windows UI changes?

    What about KDE users? Will there in the future be a focus to make Firefox look native on KDE?

  2. John
    January 10, 2008 at 9:22 am

    Alex, when sorting bookmarks from the main Bookmarks menu- is a “fix” going to be done to make the bookmarks stay “on screen” after the sort? Very irritating to have to wade back down through a multi-level thread of bookmarks just to get back to where you are working at that time. This has been a major irritant for me since the first version of Mozilla/Firefox.

    Thanks,
    John

  3. Nemes Ioan Sorin
    March 18, 2008 at 1:55 pm

    Alex – this come from an UI designer,

    Please do a simple dialog on Prefferences (and one at the first install gui) and LET USER CHOOSE between the OS like UI or Firefox 3 new UI.

    In 2 lines You can solve a potantial time / space consumer like the flame-war between native or non-native UI(now it’s an acceptable fire but after Ff3 launch will grow on entire Linux planet).

    Also – from functional design point – this must be a natural option.

    Let user choose.
    And You just saved the Linux part of this planet.

    Best Regards,
    Sorin

  4. susie
    May 4, 2008 at 11:39 am

    Hopefully someone can pass this along …

    I’m using linux with the beta 3. Integrating the gtk theme with firefox will make a lot of people happy, but taking away the ability to tweak things is going to make the rest of us upset. I use a dark gtk theme, and when you are on a light colored page with dark widgets … it looks terrible. I could install a separate firefox theme, but none of them look good with my gtk theme. After researching a bit, I found that I could edit my /usr/lib/firefox/res/forms.css file to change just the widgets. But, this has been removed from firefox 3. Stylesheet editors do not work well enough, and I end up with unreadable text boxes (like this one, for example).

    Remember the open source manta: Free as in Freedom. We need our choices.

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