Mozilla is rebranding Firefox. The company is asking for feedback on the new look, which will try to cover the various Firefox offerings. For most people, Firefox refers to a browser, but the company wants the brand to encompass all the various apps and services that the Firefox family of internet products cover, “from easy screenshotting and file sharing to innovative ways to access the internet using voice and virtual reality.” The fox with a flaming tail “doesn’t offer enough design tools to represent this entire product family,” Mozilla believes. Instead of recoloring the logo and dissecting the fox, the company wants to start from scratch. That said, the name “Firefox” is staying, so Mozilla doesn’t have that much wiggle room.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by SomeGuy on Wednesday August 01 2018, @03:30PM (3 children)
My opinion? Dig up Netscape Navigator 3.0 and use that to bring back a proper browser look and feel. Everything after that just fucked things up. Or if you want something more current, take a look at PaleMoon.
Put the menus back where they belong (and that goes for you to and your office products, Microsoft). The status bar was there for a reason.
Fuck your bullshit "metrics", and find out what real people want. (Hint, most people did not switch to Google Chrome because of its UI!). Keep in mind that only a tiny fraction of percentage of the masses go out of their way to get what they actually want, and most of those have already jumped ship from Mozilla products. (I'm struggling to even remember how Firefox currently looks because all of my crap runs PaleMoon, or some other obscure browsers)
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Arik on Wednesday August 01 2018, @09:33PM (2 children)
Why not Firefox 3.x? Nutscrape always had a horrid UI, one of the reason we all flocked to Firefox when it became available. The major retardation started around version 4 IIRC.
Funny how the same thing happened with Opera. It was arguably the best browser available at the time, even with Firefox for competition, back at version 3.62. But it squandered the advantage with version 4 and slowly became a footnote. Roughly two years later, Firefox hit version 4 and started doing the same darn thing.
It seems like there might be a pattern here. Software projects often start going off the rails at about version 4.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday August 01 2018, @10:25PM (1 child)
GNOME already went off the rails with version 3.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Wednesday August 01 2018, @11:34PM
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?