Firefox 3-Visual Refresh. A Change for the Better.
Posted by Kirk M on 30 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: Firefox/Thunderbird
Found a bit more of the visual refresh for Firefox 3 in place when I downloaded the latest update to the nightly builds this morning and it looks like the new "Back and Forward" buttons are in place. I noticed these buttons, especially the Back button, were a bit on the pixilated side and although this is what the finished product is probably going to look like, the icons are expected to be a somewhat rough around the edges yet. After all, the final release isn’t scheduled for quite some time yet (April/May time period) so there’s plenty of opportunity for the folks on the Firefox team to polish things up.
So far I don’t mind the new look at all in fact my initial impression of the refresh is much more favorable than my initial impression of the visual refresh for Firefox 2 ever was. Firefox 2’s new look ended up as a "sigh, I’ll deal with it" kind of thing (I don’t like using themes) but this UI I’m actually looking forward to using. In my opinion it’s a sharp, clean looking change for the better.
Update: If you want to see more of what the visual refresh amounts to take a look at the Firefox 3 theme icons on Windows XP post at Mozilla Links. (I meant to include these links the first time, sorry about that).
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on 30 Jan 2008 at 1:42 pm 1.Grandad said …
The buttons were the first thing I noticed today. There has been a lot of criticism of the Back button, but I like it.
I also like the drop-down for navigation - the idea of integrating back and forward into one list, though that will take a little getting used to.
on 30 Jan 2008 at 1:55 pm 2.KirkM said …
You know how people hate change and personally I’m with you on this one. I like the buttons.
About the drop down for back and forward. If you think about it it makes perfect sense when you realize that it now operates the same way as viewing your “History” does. History makes no distinction either way and now neither does the drop down menu. To me it makes the old way of doing things look a bit foolish. Funny that.