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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Combine yet Divide
by UglyKidBill on Wed 23rd Sep 2009 23:17 UTC
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Looking at that "Firefox 4.0 Theme/UI Direction" sketch I feel like they are putting half the icons on one side and half on the other, "might" look pretty but it very unconfortable imho, like when you have to cross the whole screen to hit stop/refresh in Chrome... *...ugh...*

RE: Combine yet Divide
by MechR on Thu 24th Sep 2009 00:51 in reply to "Combine yet Divide"
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2006-01-11

like when you have to cross the whole screen to hit stop/refresh in Chrome... *...ugh...*

Gods, yes, I hate that layout. Unfortunately, Ben always Wontfixes bug reports on the issue. Also, it's looking like extensions won't be able to help, since their toolbar buttons will be grouped in a section on the right side:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=22099

So the only hope now is for them to eventually implement general toolbar customization, which MIGHT enable button creation/reordering:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1656

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