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Polishing Firefox, Week 3


Here are this week’s set of polish bugs in Firefox. This week is all about alignment. I’ll start with two:
1) Location bar icons (star, rss) not vertically centered in linux (bug 455524)
2) Re-size control between location bar and search bar is misaligned on OS X (bug 457773)
Post your alignment bugs in the comments [...]

New Crash Reporter Icon


For Firefox 3.1 we are going to try to finally get around to creating a crash reporter icon (currently it just uses a copy of the software update icon). This leads to the question of what metaphor to use. I was thinking about maybe a puff of smoke or a black box, but [...]

Polishing Firefox, Week 2


The weekly series of Firefox polish bugs was interrupted last week due to a meeting with Firefox developers in Toronto to discuss the feature set for Firefox 3.1.
Based on some of the early comments from the last post, this week the bugs are all about the polish of menus in Firefox:
1. Keyboard accesskeys / mnemonics [...]

Polishing Firefox, Week 1


In an effort to increase the level of Firefox’s visual and interactive polish, I’ll be posting a list of around 7 bugs every monday from now until we finish up Firefox 3.1. These bugs will involve fixing some rough areas of Firefox 3’s UI, landing icons that we meant to land before shipping, and [...]