Mozilla's decision not to style FF2.0 for Vista


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A poor decision I think.

I listened to a podcast from twit.tv some time ago when Firefox 2.0 was first released. What the design team had to say was that they made a decision not to style Firefox 2.0 for Vista because they were planning on doing that with Firefox 3.0 :hmmm:

Seems to be like a bad call. I sit here with Vista RTM installed loving the new look but Firefox 2.0 looks decidedly too "Windows XP'ish" quite boring actually. Just doesn't fit Vista's new Aero UI at all sadly.

What I think, should have been considered is at least a secondary theme in Firefox 2.0 - something more Aero flavor. It's too late now, but it would have been a nice idea.

Call me shallow, but now that I've migrated to Vista - if an app does not fit the look I tend to no install it until it does fit Vista's Aero.

There, my 25c worth.

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Well if Vista didn't wait til last minute to provide what was needed by people to design programs for Vista then it wouldn't be that way. Firefox 2.0.0.2 at the latest will be fully vistable. Not by looks though but using features.

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Firefox is multi-platform though, plus most windows users will still be on XP for a couple of years before Vista takes over, so it makes perfect sense to me.

Besides, I'm sure there's plenty of other themes that will be created that style nicely with vista.

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^ Yeah, I don't think it was absolutely necessary at the moment FF2 was released to make it more vista friendly. After all, it works as good as it does on XP and the other OSes.

There are some things they could change, though. The progress bar when downloading something, is not "animated" like in IE... it's just a green bar.

Also maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to make the top semi-transparent like in IE

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They can't make it look too Vista since it has to look good on all the platforms which Firefox runs: Windows 2000 and higher, Mac OS, various toolkits for Linux, *BSD, etc.

The UI is programmed in XUL, its skinning won't follow many operating system's looks.

Some of this can be done via extensions and a good theme (which/are avialalbe on Mozilla's site).

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Well if Vista didn't wait til last minute to provide what was needed by people to design programs for Vista then it wouldn't be that way. Firefox 2.0.0.2 at the latest will be fully vistable. Not by looks though but using features.

I knew it! I knew that Vista invitation to Mozilla was just a lip-service stunt!

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i think FF with a glass toolbar and addressbar will look sexy! look at Maxthon! :p

it's better than that blueish purpleish weird color that it gets now :\

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i think FF with a glass toolbar and addressbar will look sexy! look at Maxthon! :p

it's better than that blueish purpleish weird color that it gets now :\

Perhaps instead of chastizing the software makers for not wasting time to make sure that their app has a "pretty looking skin" for every possible OS it can be run on, you should be yelling at MS for not devising a way to have it automatically re-skin the apps much like windowblinds is capable of with certain things.

Either suggestion is just as ridiculous on the Care-o-meter for most people

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I'll just use WindowBlinds 5.5 for Vista and get an Aero Glass-like theme for it. :D

Windowblinds doesn't skin FF as it uses it's own rendering agent, there is no way to skin it using an external source unfortunately.

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