Excellent Innovations in Firefox 1.0
The upcoming 1.0 version of Firefox has several new features and user interface enhancements to further improve it’s excellent usability and design.
Firefox has incorporated the “Find” dialog into the the main browser window rather than having a little popup come up. Not only can you do the typical find previous and next within a page, but you can quickly highlight found instances.
Popup blocking has also improved. Instead of just placing a small “!” at the bottom of the screen, you now get a more noticable, yet non intrusive, dialog at the top of the page. This is great for people new to the feature who may never notice the “!” and just assume that the website is broken if they miss a requested or expected popup.
Firefox now also detects RSS feeds and displays an orange “RSS” icon at the bottom of the browser. Right now clicking it shows the feeds and gives you the option of bookmarking them. Hopefully in the future that functionality will improve even more to have some of the features that the upcoming version of Safari will have.
August 20th, 2004 at 4:26 pm
Hm… Popup with [!] is great. If I don’t want window then, I also don’t want half-screen notice of it.
August 20th, 2004 at 5:43 pm
Yeah, I hope there is an option to turn this ‘feature’ off.
I don’t need a row across the top of the window alerting me to the fact that I’m not seeing something I didn’t want to see in the first place.
August 20th, 2004 at 6:00 pm
Yeah, I have serious objections to a toolbar across the whole window telling me that it has blocked a popup - who cares, the “I” was just fine.
Next we’ll be having a popup window telling us that we’ve blocked a banner ad!
Also, doesn’t every app have a find dialog instead of yeat another toolbar?! Soon Firefox won’t have enough room for the web pages with all these toolbars.
This kind of cr*p should be left as an Extension, or have the option to kill it.
August 20th, 2004 at 7:30 pm
well, well, well… seems firefox is gonna replace something bothering, with something awful. and they are gonna add support for RSS… next they are going to include a mail client, and sir… wasn’t that a different and overbloated browser called mozilla we were running from??
August 20th, 2004 at 7:32 pm
The bar is completely optional, the first time it shows up you can click on it and choose ‘Don’t show this message when popups are blocked.’ .. and the find toolbar auto-hides (ie., it is only visible when you are searching).
Although, I do understand the need to complain about it, since it is different and all.
August 20th, 2004 at 7:43 pm
Mozilla and FireFox need SVG compiled in standard like yesterday!!!
August 20th, 2004 at 8:02 pm
The bar only shows up the first time and I’m sure it will be a great help for new users. People have a tendency to overlook status bar icons, sadly.
Also - and I’m mainly talking to R. Seoul here -, you should really give the Find Toolbar a chance before bashing it. I used to be sceptical about it but I’ve grown to like it. I think it’s more convenient than having to open a dialog and, again thinking of new users, Find As You Type used to give no visual feedback except the highlighting, which has probably confused quite a few people; now, they get a nice toolbar for it.
August 20th, 2004 at 8:38 pm
Why not just leave the find feature to the Googlebar? Do I really need another built in bar to find/highlight/select when the Googlebar does all of this and more?
August 20th, 2004 at 10:05 pm
How about instead of having an auto-hide toolbar at the bottom we have a search icon near the home button ann when we click it. It open’s the new search bar at the bottom.
August 20th, 2004 at 10:06 pm
Also can we get a window’s screenshot
August 20th, 2004 at 11:17 pm
Windows screenshot.. g
How different do you think it looks in Windows anyway ?
Not that I use Windows but my vote goes to “not different at all”.
August 21st, 2004 at 12:54 am
kidproto is spot on .. Firefox should come standard with SVG support
August 21st, 2004 at 12:59 am
Will the Information Bar Spoofing be fixed with this one?
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252257
August 21st, 2004 at 3:16 am
firefox is newb friendly, anorexic, the Fisher Price design team have obviously created the “front end” and a few other crits that i can’t be arsed mentioning…..
August 21st, 2004 at 4:37 am
You know, the best thing about mozilla is that just about everything is configurable. Removing any toolbar, including the File menu is doable with simple text scripts. Personally, I will give the Find toolbar a chance. The only thing I can’t figure out about firefox is how to over-ride plugins. I’ve been trying to change my mpeg player from Quicktime to something else for quite some time, and can’t seem to find where this God foresaken QT plugin is configured.
August 21st, 2004 at 6:29 am
Every time soemthing new arrives everyone is crying “NO”, “Don’t need it”,… have you thought about that YOU may don’t need it, but other people? I’m using firefox/phoenix for a long time and it’s true: you can change nearly everything in the browser editing the text-files, so why do you care about a single bar which is intended to help new user to use firefox? And by the way: all you people complaining about new features/design/…, have you ever thought about that you’re using a completly FREE browser programmed and provided with extensions/themes from people doing that in their free time? Think of that the next time you call something “crap”,ok ? Free software lives from their popularity, so help them, make constructive proposals, find new user…
August 21st, 2004 at 8:55 am
What about make the upgrade option working !? instead of installing everytime the last mozilla and the new features… Think about that!
August 21st, 2004 at 9:12 am
is it better Mozilla or FireFox?
August 21st, 2004 at 1:28 pm
I hope they fix the annoying tendency for it to chop off part of the url you enter in the address bar. Eg. If I start typing http://www.microsoft.com it will display my previous entry, when I click on it, half the time I’ll end up with http://www.mic.com or http://www.micros.com etc. It’s been doing this ever since I first started using Firefox back at 0.8
August 21st, 2004 at 2:41 pm
When will the FavIcon Bug be fixed? Will this ever happen?
A Browser that claims “I’m a 1.0 version” should not “forget” the bookmark icons each time I start a new session/clear the cache…
Of course Firefox is the best browser around and I really love it
August 21st, 2004 at 2:47 pm
The forgetting favicons but is fixed.
I also like the highlighting of the location bar when on an HTTPS site
August 21st, 2004 at 3:49 pm
Veeery nice Butterfly there.. MorphOS Power!
August 21st, 2004 at 4:09 pm
Like IE (version 6) does this right…
Find bar looks very good!!
August 21st, 2004 at 6:58 pm
What’s that theme (Not the firefox theme, the OS-wide one) you’re using there and where can I get it?
Thanks
August 21st, 2004 at 7:13 pm
I guess I’ll just stick to 0.93 forever then.
August 21st, 2004 at 8:55 pm
I failed to mention, the new features can be disabled if you like.
The Mac OS X theme I’m using in that picture is Aluminum Alloy. One of my favorites, very polished. You can get it here:
http://www.macthemes.net/articles/reviews/000031.php
August 22nd, 2004 at 2:35 am
Did you preview these features from a nightly build or did you get access to something on a fork that is not public yet?
August 22nd, 2004 at 8:27 am
I teach an online course in Bioinformatics. I’d really like to use something other than IE6, but our online material uses SVG graphics… I can get Firefox to use the Adobe SVG Viewer 6 plugin in Windows, but many of our students use Linux. Come on - SVG is the W3C standard. It should be your highest priority.
August 22nd, 2004 at 1:48 pm
Will middle-clicking links actually work on Mac OS X? (Yes, there are Mac users with 3-button mice.) It’s annoying to have middle-click work in Safari but not Firefox.
August 22nd, 2004 at 3:07 pm
If you like these themes on your Gnome look here :
http://art.gnome.org/themes/gtk2/615/
http://art.gnome.org/themes/gtk2/614/
August 22nd, 2004 at 4:24 pm
I think that book-marks should be the same as in
Gnome Epiphany, namely that a book-mark can be part
of several categories. Not only one, like in the todays
hirarchiacal book-mark.
August 23rd, 2004 at 12:29 am
need better download manager. now the download manager is really not enough.
for some website still have some problems displaying it correctly, meanwhile on IE it is good. we need to consider to improve it (I know some of the site is not using teh standard correctly), but user can feel bed if it is OK on IE but bad on Mozilla.
More Icon please, look at the MyIE where we can access many things from the toolbar and menu. but we can customize it when needed.
and many others improvements
for the thunderbird, they need to be more securing the data, so the data cannot be copied to other computer easily without the password. the data itself need to be password protected. and the calendar and others also need to be integrated.
August 23rd, 2004 at 6:05 am
Middle clicking works to open tabs works in OS X. I’ve had more success with the Kensignton mouse drivers though. I still have not been able to get my Logitech mouse to open tabs by middle clicking.
August 23rd, 2004 at 11:24 am
Firefox wasn’t to be a very basic implementation of mozilla browser? type ahead was just fine. why cumber the screen with more toolbars (i will not enter the popup alerto row).
This kinda of things should be extensions.
i just hope that i can at least drag the buttons from that toolbar that i find useful into another toolbar.
August 23rd, 2004 at 11:29 am
Gabriel - the point of the ‘cumbersome toolbar’ is to allow you to quickly highlight all found instances and to unify the standard find dialog and the find as you type dialog. As with everything else, this can be disabled. I don’t think it should be a plugin because I believe this is functionality the majority of users will want.
Again… the point of the popup notification is to alert new users that they’ve missed a popup.
Here’s a scenario. A user visits a site that pops up a new window for Flash content (while I think this is a bad practice, many movie sites do it). Popup blocking blocks the window and the user figures the site is broken and leaves. Now they will have a more obvious indication that they’ve missed a popup (which they are free to disable at any time).
August 24th, 2004 at 3:33 pm
Son; I have told you again and again that the possessive form of the word “it” is “its”, not “it’s”. Your second-grade teacher taught you this but you stubbornly refuse to learn this basic rule of writing. Today would be a good day to begin to use the right word.
Your father says to remind you that the word “it’s” is the equivalent of “it is” or “it has”.
August 28th, 2004 at 4:20 pm
Heh actually that popup blocker notification in the form of that alert will be quite similar to the way IE with XP SP2 does. Honestly when firefox implemented that new download manager i was disapointed. I was much happier with the way Firebird 0.6 downloaded apps in a little download applet that showed the progress. Not some download window that gets cluttered with apps that I hate clearing every so often.
September 7th, 2004 at 4:25 am
Firefox.fr