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Polishing Firefox, Week n (Special Edition)


It turns out that publishing lists of polish bugs in small groups over time isn’t actually the most efficient way to draw attention to them, so here are some longer lists of polish bugs for your perusing pleasure.
If for some reason today is not October 29th 2008, you can use these handy bugzilla searches to [...]

Privacy UI


As many of you probably know, I’ve been a big proponent of adding a private browsing mode to Firefox ever since I joined Mozilla (technically I was even advocating for the feature while in the process of interviewing here). So after two years, you can’t imagine how pleased I am to finally be doing [...]

Firefox Themes: The Contention Between Visual Hierarchy and Toolbar Customization


When we were receiving feedback during the development of the Windows themes for Firefox 3, one question tended to come up a lot:
Why are there three distinct visual styles of controls in the main toolbar?
This is a really good question, and something that I don’t think I adequately explained during the design process. Here [...]