Alex Faaborg

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 […]

Here is an updated sheet of the Firefox 3 icons. We are still receiving revisions on some of these icons from the teams working on each platform, but it has been awhile since I posted, so I wanted to get this up. While many of these icons are currently featured in the nightly […]

Yesterday we received a lot of the new Windows icons for Firefox 3 from the Iconfactory. These will start showing up in the nightly builds shortly, but I wanted to take a quick break from getting them landed to post an update. I know a lot of people are curious about the keyhole […]

A lot of people have been asking what our plans are for introducing an iconic form, which was discussed in my previous post The Shape of Things to Come?
Before the code freeze for Beta 3 next week, we are going to land one of the shapes we are considering, which we are calling Keyhole, in […]

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!

Refreshing the icons in Firefox usually occurs in the later beta releases during the development cycle. This is partly because we have to stabilize the UI design before we know what icons we are going to need, partly because dropping in new images is pretty low risk in terms of performance and stability regressions, […]

Firefox 3 Wireframes
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been driving the design of a cross platform shape and control set for Firefox 3. I’ve been working with the Firefox 3 drivers Mike Connor and Mike Beltzner, along with Mozilla’s interactician Madhava Enros, Dave Brasgalla from the Iconfactory, and our OS X theme […]

Work on the new linux theme for Firefox 3 is progressing nicely due to a very active group of contributers. To match the operating system’s theme, Firefox’s navigation toolbar will use native GTK icons. The remaining icons are being drawn in the Tango style. I owe a huge thanks to Andreas Nilsson, […]

Last weekend Mozilla sponsored and participated in the fifth FLOSS Usability Sprint. The purpose of free/libre open source usability sprints is to get user experience designers and interaction designers in the bay area involved with open source projects, and to get open source projects actively engaged in improving their usability. In addition to […]