If Firefox 3 drops Vista look


Firefox 3 drops Vista look  

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  1. 1. If Firefox 3 Drops the Vista Native 'Look' will you continue to use Firefox?

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I don't know what some of you are saying here. In my opinion the icons in the latest nightly are almost exact with those of Vista, except the arrow.

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I don't know what some of you are saying here. In my opinion the icons in the latest nightly are almost exact with those of Vista, except the arrow.

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You can't be serious.

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I don't know what some of you are saying here. In my opinion the icons in the latest nightly are almost exact with those of Vista, except the arrow.

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The ones on the right look far better,

hence on my pc

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I think MOST people on here know hot to/and probably will skin their FF. The average person will barely even notice the change.

I think MOST people on here know hot to/and probably will skin their FF. The average person will barely even notice the change.

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one thing mozilla needs to do is find an alternative to that yucky blue toolbar background. i'm sure the icons would look a lot better without that crappy colored background.

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Maybe Mozilla needs to consider the option of re-writing their browser to utilize native operating system api's; Windows Presentation Foundation for Vista, and libraries instead of sticking to their scheme. Perhaps when they decide to do this, I will revisit the idea of installing FX.

I think they did it for the Mac, but Camino isn't that big of a hit. If I recall, it has an adoption rate about the same as the Mac Internet Explorer, last time I checked. If you think such a policy would do better on Windows, i'd agree. However i still think the bulk of Windows users will still use Firefox vs WindowsFox simply because of the extensions they use.

And to move away from Mozilla browsers, All the natively integrated browsers are not really that succesful elswhere (IE, Safari, Konqueror) because they are really not thatintegrated elswhere. Face it, there are not that many natively integrated (meaning minimal to zero usage of Java, GTK etc.) crossplatform applications (Windows, OSX and at least one *nix) and 0 browsers that fit the description.

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one thing mozilla needs to do is find an alternative to that yucky blue toolbar background. i'm sure the icons would look a lot better without that crappy colored background.

Exactly, that is weird looking.

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one thing mozilla needs to do is find an alternative to that yucky blue toolbar background. i'm sure the icons would look a lot better without that crappy colored background.

Yeah, that's the problem with honouring the system theme, sometimes the system theme is odd.

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Yeah, that's the problem with honouring the system theme, sometimes the system theme is odd.

but if we consider aero as the system theme... firefox would look so much better

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You can't be serious.

Exactly! Those buttons look very different to me. Not just the arrow, but the shade of the blue. Why can't Mozilla use buttons which are very similar to Vista? After all, they are using the same icon company which did the icons for Vista!

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I like the fact that the GUI changes from OS to OS. I'm running Firefox 3.0 pre-beta 4 and i like how on my XP machine it has a XP look, and on my Vista laptop & desktop it has a vista look.

I wont stop using it if it drops it, purely because i've found Firefox better, especially these new betas.

We have to remember these builds are nightly, change every day and things are bound to change, its part of testing and user acceptance.

David.

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It's decided: Aero Glass will not make it into Firefox 3. To quote Alex Faaborg's post over at the Mozillazine forums:

We are not going to be able to add support for Aero Glass in the default Vista theme without delaying the release of Firefox 3, so we are unfortunately pushing that feature back to Firefox 4 (which was actually kind of expected). To implement Aero Glass support correctly we will need to make modifications to the underlying rendering engine, however it's possible that in the future extensions will be able to add Aero Glass support for Firefox 3. So since we won't be able to ship with glass support, here is a mockup of what we are planning for the Vista theme (which some people have already linked to): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=306472
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and on my Vista laptop & desktop it has a vista look.

LOL, it does?

Mozilla really should be ashamed of themselves over this, because they REALLY ****ed this up!

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No, they didn't f**k anything up! They never said they would include Areo Glass in Firefox! You need to use your eyes and read PROPERLY! They actually said they will make the theme "more native" on each OS. They did not say "we will include Areo Glass in Firefox 3".

The theme that was linked in Alex Faaborg's post IS more native to Vista, just like was orignally said.

I hope they keep this theme.

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Firefox should have glass because everyone loves glass, especially me, I love vista and will definitely not be using firefox is it isn't see through. It's not the quality of the software that counts, it's the transparency of the window.

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but if we consider aero as the system theme... firefox would look so much better

If you're using Aero, then Firefox is drawing using the Aero theme (including the toolbar background)

Drawing using Glass is a lot harder, and isn't going to happen for Gecko 1.9 (FX 3)

Edit: Or it might, there might be an easier way to go about it, they're going to go test.

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