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> brave I am not trying to be snarky, but to me a lot of the new UI is "oh, they made it look more like Chrome". I am kind of surprised to hear the word "brav

by IvyMike 13y ago

> brave I am not trying to be snarky, but to me a lot of the new UI is "oh, they made it look more like Chrome". I am kind of surprised to hear the word "brave" to describe that.

seba_dos1 13y ago
Work on this UI started long before Chrome. That's Chrome that looks like Firefox mockups, not the other way.
- vanderZwan 13y ago
  Interesting, got a source for that?
- zethraeus 13y ago
  Can you source this from public docs somewhere? It's interesting and I'd love to compare the early mockups with early chrome.
  - Excavator 13y ago
    Not OP but earliest concepts I know of are these¹ from 2011. 1: http://people.mozilla.org/~shorlander/ux-presentation/ux-presentation.html http://people.mozilla.org/~shorlander/ux-presentation/ux-pre...
  - IvyMike 13y ago
    Here's are some pre-release screenshots of Chrome from 2008. http://mikemacd.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/google-chrome-screenshots/ http://mikemacd.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/google-chrome-scree...
yati 13y ago
There are a lot of people who initially did not like the curved tabs and other visual design changes (e.g., the bookmark star is no longer in the 'awesome bar'). It is IMO brave for the designers to take a stand for the users when redesigning a widely used product. I have the same feelings for the GNOME project.
- davb 13y ago
  > There are a lot of people who initially did not like ... > ... take a stand for the user ... These statements seem at odds. I'm all for change when there's a clear need for it, but when it's done just to keep up with Chrome's aesthetic, it can alienate an existing userbase. If I wanted Chrome, I'd be using Chrome. The reason I stuck with Firefox for so long was the configurability. However, now when a settings is removed or dumbed down the default stance on BugZilla is "just install an addon".
  - 51Cards 13y ago
    Very much agree with this comment. I'll be sticking to v28 for now and using the Classic Theme restorer to restore the lost features when I have to move up. Sadly, this will become the fourth extension I run to restore features Firefox has removed.

by IvyMike 13y ago

> brave I am not trying to be snarky, but to me a lot of the new UI is "oh, they made it look more like Chrome". I am kind of surprised to hear the word "brave" to describe that.

seba_dos1 13y ago

Work on this UI started long before Chrome. That's Chrome that looks like Firefox mockups, not the other way.

vanderZwan 13y ago
Interesting, got a source for that?
zethraeus 13y ago
Can you source this from public docs somewhere? It's interesting and I'd love to compare the early mockups with early chrome.
- Excavator 13y ago
  Not OP but earliest concepts I know of are these¹ from 2011. 1: http://people.mozilla.org/~shorlander/ux-presentation/ux-presentation.html http://people.mozilla.org/~shorlander/ux-presentation/ux-pre...
- IvyMike 13y ago
  Here's are some pre-release screenshots of Chrome from 2008. http://mikemacd.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/google-chrome-screenshots/ http://mikemacd.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/google-chrome-scree...

yati 13y ago

There are a lot of people who initially did not like the curved tabs and other visual design changes (e.g., the bookmark star is no longer in the 'awesome bar'). It is IMO brave for the designers to take a stand for the users when redesigning a widely used product. I have the same feelings for the GNOME project.

davb 13y ago
> There are a lot of people who initially did not like ... > ... take a stand for the user ... These statements seem at odds. I'm all for change when there's a clear need for it, but when it's done just to keep up with Chrome's aesthetic, it can alienate an existing userbase. If I wanted Chrome, I'd be using Chrome. The reason I stuck with Firefox for so long was the configurability. However, now when a settings is removed or dumbed down the default stance on BugZilla is "just install an addon".
- 51Cards 13y ago
  Very much agree with this comment. I'll be sticking to v28 for now and using the Classic Theme restorer to restore the lost features when I have to move up. Sadly, this will become the fourth extension I run to restore features Firefox has removed.