Alex Faaborg

Mozilla recently collaborated with the Netherlands-based design firm Sofa to refresh some of our OS X application and file system level icons for both Firefox and the wider Mozilla platform. The result of their work is really fantastic:
Disk Image (Firefox), large version

Crash Reporter (Mozilla Platform), large version

Software Update (Mozilla Platform), large version

I think the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

If you are reading this post odds are you are one of the 1.2 million people currently enjoying a beta or nightly build of Firefox 3. However are you a big enough Firefox fan that you like to run it simultaneously on 4 different platforms? If not, here are some screen shots of the [...]

Thursday 2/21 at 14:00 to 15:00 PST (UTC-8) I will be on Air Mozilla Live answering questions about the ongoing work on the new themes for Firefox 3. You can view the show live at air.mozilla.com and participate on IRC, IM, or email. If you happen to miss the show you can of [...]