Designing Firefox 3.2
In January 2000, T-Online asked us what we’d do if we could design a browser from scratch. Our answer was “Tabs”. Eight years later Aza Raskin, head of user experience at Mozilla, asked me what I think a new tab should look like. The answer after days of mailing back and forth: “Forget tabs!”
Tabs worked well on slow machines on a thin Internet, where ten browser sessions were “many browser sessions”. Today, twenty+ parallel sessions is quite common; the browser is more of an operating system than a data display application; we use it to manage the web as a shared hard drive. Also, God said that tabs don’t work if you have more than seven or eight. Basically they don’t work at all, if you use them for heterogeneous content. They were just a good solution to keep the screen tidy for the moment. Now, in our opinion, this works much better:
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Firefox 3.2 to get a radically reshaped UI inspired by iTunes?
The next major release of Firefox could shake up the browser world and even reshape the way we use the Web, in must the same way that tabs did for the original ‘Phoenix’ release of Firefox in 2002.
Oliver Reichenstein, founder and CEO of UI design firm Information Architects, is proposing a radical interfacelift inspired by iTunes and the concept of a browser that organises Web sites rather than just displaying them, in the same way that iTunes manages your music rather than just play MP3 tracks.
There’s no indication that Mozilla has signed up as a client of Information Architects, however, so Reichenstein’s vision should be seen only as an expert’s take on the browser UI rather than the definitive face of the next-gen Firefox,
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re: Firefox 3.2
Alas, I knew it would be too good to last.
iTunes sucks - the ONLY reason it mimics being popular is that if you have a Apple MP3 player you don't have a lot of choices.
Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 code freeze will slip ... a little
The Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 code freeze was expected today but a little more time is needed.
“Code freeze was scheduled for today, but as just announced, some of the P1 blockers have not yet been resolved and so we’ve delayed the freeze to wait for these fixes. Our target for release is still late next week."
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