Firefox 4 - Mozilla posts sneak peeks
By Benny Har-Even in Editorial
Posted in Browsers on
It’s been less than a month since Mozilla released Firefox 3.5 and now it’s been and gone and done released some screenshots of what it thinks Firefox 4.0 might look like.
Just so we’re clear - it has the caveat in large letters at the top of the page that they are “NOT FINAL! THEY ARE ONLY FOR BRAINSTORMING/EXPLORATION!”
With Aero enabled, its has to be said that the design looks quite a bit like Google Chrome, which as we all know, in Chrome OS form, will shortly be taking over the world near you.
The raised buttons on the left are pure Chrome, as it the tool options to the right of the search bar. The tabs are separated out a little and without tool bars, it does look cleaner and more modern.
Is that a tab on the left for showing a thumbnails of favourite sites - a la, Chrome and Safari?
So far Mozilla hasn’t gone the whole hog and combined the address bar and the search bar, a la Chrome, and the tabs are still below rather than above the address bar.
Regardless of design, I feel the most important thing Mozilla can do it to ensure that like Chrome, it puts each tab into a separate process, so when one crashes, it doesn’t take the whole browser with it.
Generally though, I like what I see.
Any other thoughts on the look of Firefox 4 so far?
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Microsoft throws toys out pram in browser war
By Benny Har-Even in Editorial
Posted in Browsers, Microsoft on
So in response to reprimands from the European Union, Microsoft is throwing its toys out of the pram – and not shipping any browser at all with Windows 7.
This of course, wasn’t really what the EU wanted – it was trying to promote choice and wanted Microsoft to enable users to choose which browser they wanted to use as they first ran the OS. But Microsoft is sticking to the letter of the law, and pulling IE out altogether.
Which does sort of beg the question of how you’re going to get the browser of your choice onto your computer if it doesn’t have a browser on in the first place. One can’t assume everyone will have a second computer to hand to download one. It’s all a bit chicken and egg – and a little 1998 – remember being excited at getting IE4 on the cover disk on the front of PC Pro or the (recently deceased) PCW? Yeah? Oh, just me then.
What Microsoft is going to have to do then is ship IE8 on a separate CD when you buy the OS – and if you buy a new computer the vendor will presumably help – by installing Firefox for you first.
Or it can stop being silly and include IE – but not force it to being the default – and provide links to all the other providers. The chances are the majority will not bother, and it will still see itself coming out on top in terms of market share.
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