How would you like the next version of Mozilla Firefox UI to look ? Would you like it to have a spartan look and feel similar to Google Chrome ? Or should it be an amalgamation of all the good UI ideas found in different browsers like Opera, Internet Explorer 8.0, Safari and Google Chrome ?
Mozilla Firefox has initiated a discussion on how the UI of Firefox 4.0 should be designed. It has put together a couple of ideas as mockups.
These mockups have not been finalized but are shared with the public to initiate a discussion and for brainstorming. Should Firefox 4.0 have tabs on top of address bar or on bottom of address bar like in Google Chrome? Should it have a combo stop/refresh/go button ?
Check out the mockups of Firefox 4.0 and also the feedback received.
And if you have any UI ideas you would like to share, do write to the Firefox Mozilla team.
Firefox Mozilla Mockups for version 4
Firefox 3.5 released with support for the HTML 5 Video Tag and much more
Firefox team is striving to remain in the cutting edge of technology. The newest Firefox release namely version 3.5 is considered by many to be one of the fastest web browsers leaving its competition far behind. Mozilla claims Firefox 3.5 is over 2 times faster than Firefox 3.0 and 10 times faster than Firefox 2.x.
But one exciting new feature in Firefox 3.5 is no doubt the support for the HTML 5 video tag. Web browsers which support the HTML 5 standard can embed OGG format videos and audio in web pages, making Flash player nearly redundant for watching videos online. You can even right click and save the video to your desktop.
Then Firefox team has been catching up with Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 8 by including a feature found in these browsers called the Private Browsing Mode where the browser forgets the history of the session and destroys any traces of the websites you visit during this session.
Other new features found in Firefox 3.5 are location aware web browsing, downloadable fonts and improvements in CSS, web worker threads, JSON and SVG support.
Firefox 3.5 is available in 70 languages in Mac OS X, Windows and Linux which makes it truly a fabulous web browser. Of course, one needn't even mention the 1000s of Add-Ons available which extend the utility of Firefox to make it behave in which ever way you want it to.
Listen to what Mike Beltzner - the Director of Firefox Development has to say about Firefox 3.5.
You can download Firefox 3.5 at Mozilla.com.
