Star Firefox 3.7's UI: Who Littered All These Widgets All Over the Place?
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 23rd Sep 2009 22:31 UTC
Mozilla & Gecko clones We've already talked about the proposed interface changes for Firefox 3.7 (and 4.0) which are coming to the Windows platform. However, those were anything-goes sketches, and now it seems as if the team has more or less settled on what Firefox 3.7 will look like on Windows. I'll reserve final judgement until I have used it, but my first thought was: who littered all these different widgets all over the place?
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IE8's UI sucks? No!
by SJ87 on Thu 24th Sep 2009 04:44 UTC
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It very much pains me to say, but all this reminds me a lot of my UI arch-nemesis, Internet Explorer. While the Trident engine is often derided for being outdated and a mess, I would argue that Internet Explorer's interface is in an even worse shape. Now, look at the below shot. See the resemblance?


IMHO IE8 is the prettiest browser on earth at the moment. It sure has loads of meaningless bloat in its default setup but get rid of that bookmarks toolbar and the extra toolbuttons and swee'eet! I even made my Windows-Firefox look like IE8 the other day. IE7 was horrible crap, that's where I agree with you. So is the proposed new UI for Firefox, sadly.

And yes, I'm a full-day Linux user...

Edited 2009-09-24 04:49 UTC

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