Alex Faaborg

I’ve been wanting to write this post for a few years now. During the development of Firefox 3, I worked on the design of the awesome bar (iteration 1, iteration 2), and on the design of Places (an internal name for History and Bookmarks in Firefox). This post details what I’ve imagined as [...]

Yesterday a story circulated around the Web and Twitter that Firefox was planning to Tidy Up With Office 2007’s Ribbon. The mockup of Firefox in the article didn’t actually have a Ribbon in it, and the nice folks over at PCPro quickly added an update to the story. However word spreads fast on [...]

I’m starting up a new project, which from the title is rather self describing. Firefox’s purpose is to let you access the Web, but it unfortunately often blocks users from accessing the Web until they have responded to some form of question. This is particularly ironic given the massive amounts of time and [...]

The acceleration based scrolling model on Windows has been landed in the nightly builds for a little over a week now, so I wanted to get a post up for people to provide feedback on how well they think the current implementation is working, now that everyone has had some time to acclimate to the [...]

The title isn’t a rhetorical question. Now that Margaret’s acceleration based scrolling model has landed for feedback, we are trying to figure out what perception of performance improvement we should target next.
You can check out the full list of ideas on the mozilla wiki. If you have ideas on other things we should [...]

From the Firefox 3.5 video by community member Vineel Reddy
Currently all the browser vendors are engaged in a pretty exciting race to see who can engineer the fastest Web browser. A lot of different aspects come into play when you are focusing on raw performance, including top speed (captured by a range of different [...]

One of the major themes in Firefox 3.5’s user interface is a focus on privacy. So far Firefox’s approach to privacy has been essentially all or nothing. Users previously had the ability to easily clear all of the data the browser had stored about them, but this destroyed absolutely everything. Instead of [...]

Rafael Ebron of Mozilla Messaging will be managing the update of the Thunderbird icon. The process will be similar to the recent update of the Firefox icon, and they will be working with the very talented Iconfactory, so that the icons continue to visually reference each other, and feel like they are part of [...]

We are now preparing builds of a third release candidate of Firefox 3.5 which should be available shortly. RC3 is being created to fix a few important issues, but it will also include several small changes to the new Firefox icon.
New 16×16 Version (All Platforms, but primarily Linux and Windows)
Based on the feedback coming [...]

Later this week we will be shipping the first Release Candidate build of Firefox 3.5, which is currently in the process of being evaluated by our exceptional QA team and testing community. This also means that we are now ready to finalize the design of the new Firefox icon.
I want to thank everyone who [...]