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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Firefox 4.0 The future is now...

clipped from mashable.com

Firefox 4.0: Early Screenshots Released

They’ve posted mockups of the new Firefox 4.0 design (included below) on their wiki. Firefox warns that they are just for brainstorming, but they provide the world’s first real glimpse into the next edition of the Firefox browser.

The Firefox Screenshots: Tabs on Top or Bottom?

Tabs on bottom is the current norm in Firefox, while the tabs-on-top looks almost exactly like the Google ChromeGoogle ChromeGoogle Chrome browser.
Here is the tabs-on-bottom version
Firefox 4 Image

And here’s the tabs-on-top design:

Firefox 4 Image
Positives:
Shorter Mouse Distance to Page Controls
Negatives:
- Breaks Consistency/Familiarity – Moving things confuses existing users.
- Longer Mouse Distance to Tabs – Takes longer to mouse to a tab.
With the space removed from the titlebar you only get the truncated version in the tab.

New Firefox 4.0 Feature: Combo Stop/Refresh/Go Button

they’re all integrated into one button
Firefox 4 Image
sneak peek of Firefox in 2010
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