Firefox RC2 Tabs UI
The new Firefox 2.0 RC2 is up for public download and spots one new UI change I really appreciate: shiny tabs. Their new tabs look fabulous, with brighter colors and web 2.0 gradients:
If we compare this to the IE7 tabs we see a similarity emerge:
Firefox here is innovating their UI off Microsoft’s IE 7 by providing “shiny tabs,” not that I mind, of course.
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on October 8th, 2006 at 7:26 pm
Personally, I prefer the Firefox 2 tabs. I’ve always favored silver over blue for these sort of things. Maybe it’s because I use a Mac a lot…
I don’t like the rest of the Firefox 2 UI, though (especially the toolbar buttons), but I don’t know if they’ve improved it since I last looked at it, around RC1.
on October 8th, 2006 at 7:27 pm
And what’s up with the image after your post that seems to do nothing? (You can’t click it, it doesn’t tell you anything… Just wondering.)
Now that I’ve posted a comment, the top icon changed to an envelope with a heart…
on October 18th, 2006 at 11:04 am
I think the tab X came from Safari on the Mac and an extension some had done for Firefox 1.0. It may (or may not) have been in development at the same time MS was doing IE7’s tab implementation.
on October 27th, 2006 at 5:16 am
What a guy who hates all the distracting and silly gradients has to do these days? I hate al the round corners and the gradient surfaces! and yet they seem to be mandatory these days.
Does anyone knows how to get rid of these gradients and have the old firefox toolbars back?
Maybe a userchrome snippet? How that background is forced onto those tabs?
sigh…
on December 2nd, 2006 at 3:54 am
userchrome info is scattered. ask at mozillazine. i agree, ff1 had good iconage. ff2 is washed out. however, they’re trying to add functionality, by adding states (better than just 2 states: gray when non-hovered, colorful when hovered). I’ve also had the impression that a lot of the ui changes (not necessarily for better) have come from mac os’s.
And only The Shadow knows from whom apple steals ui concepts, a-hahahahahaha.
on April 1st, 2007 at 1:43 am
What are you talking about? Mozilla put the shiny tabs in long before anyone had even seen IE7!