updates Meet the browser: Firefox Next

[SlimShady]

I'm sure you can hide it eventually.

[flexkeyboard]

Bug 765874 - Implement v1 of recommend/like share button is in inbound now

kcuf....Mozilla has gone bonker. Man do they need an intervention really bad right now. I hope there are enough ****ed off developers that they'll eventually split off and do a meaningful fork.

I'm sticking to 13.0.1 forever now at this rate. No australis, no social integration, no junk.

[bogas04]

kcuf....Mozilla has gone bonker. Man do they need an intervention really bad right now. I hope there are enough ****ed off developers that they'll eventually split off and do a meaningful fork.

Safari 6(with ML) and IE 10 (with Win8) have Social Integration too. Chrome will too end up adding it.

I'm sticking to 13.0.1 forever now at this rate. No australis, no social integration, no junk.

It will still take ages to land Australis , completely.

[ShMaunder]

kcuf....Mozilla has gone bonker. Man do they need an intervention really bad right now. I hope there are enough ****ed off developers that they'll eventually split off and do a meaningful fork.

I'm sticking to 13.0.1 forever now at this rate. No australis, no social integration, no junk.

+1. When will they stop with useless social/GUI features that add-ons cover and put some optimizations in for the Linux rendering engine! Every update on Linux, since about version 7, has been getting slower whilst Chromium is getting much much faster. Their priorities are messed up at the moment. I wouldn't be so mad if their entire development team were volunteers. They need to remember why Chromium/Chrome got a decent market share - speed, not the damn GUI and/or social features which slow everything down if not optimized!

[+Zlip792 MVC]

Social Integration is disabled by default.

[+Zlip792 MVC]

WTF is this: https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=745143

No Electrolysis for Desktop while giving us only Async speedups... While B2G getting thing which desktop needs from start..

****ty developers... I wish that B2G fail and mozilla got slap for their dead investment..

For Us on Desktop - FF16:

Update to PDF.js - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773422

CSS3 - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773102

[bogas04]

Bug 587909 - Improve the visual style of location bar results is in inbound now!

[+Zlip792 MVC]

Bug 587909 - Improve the visual style of location bar results is in inbound now!

After backout of removal of scrollbar in awesomebar result change..

[bogas04]

Bug 587909 - Improve the visual style of location bar results is in inbound now!

It's in nightlies now. Feels much more modern and native.

[Steven P. Administrators]

On Firefox 14.0.1 waiting for Firefox 15 beta to land :p

[+Zlip792 MVC]

Firefox 15 will again hit like FF7 since it has Addon leak fix and it even improve performance and leaks due to Firebug addon.. So I think addons users gonna love this..

BTW Firefox Nightlies are now version 17..

[bogas04]

Metro Bugs List can be now found here : https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox_Metro_UI

[bogas04]

UX Design

• [metro] (yuan)
  
  • Metro UI wiki page updated with all the bug numbers https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox_Metro_UI
    
  • working on "Find in Page" interaction flow -- short keynote video sketch on Find on Page (keynote file)
    

  [*][desktop]

  • [australis] (zhenshuo, stephen)
    
    • Menu Panel refinement: mockup here
      
    • Customization mode interactions getting sorted out: structural overview, playing with affordances
      
    • exploration the transition animations using PS is here
      
    • and also working on a prototype of the customization interactions see work-in-progress here (bwinton)
      
    • general ux tracking in this etherpad
      

    [*][dev tools] Working on bug 770818 and starting to sketch on a framework for the UI (bdils)

  [*][privacy/security] Larissa Co is starting up a project to look at user-oriented privacy and security improvements we could make in the browser -- she may come looking for you! (Larissa)

  [*][android] (ibarlow)

  • supporting Fx15 uplift and polish
    
  • readability 2.0 - summarizing some of outstanding issues we see - PDF overview here
    
  • reader mode - looking into font licensing; general tracking in this etherpad
    
  • sync UI for tablets
    
  • Initial sketching on Cloud to Device Messaging and Review Solicitation moving into screen design phase (Madhava, ibarlow)
    

  [*][Firefox on B2G/Gaia] Usability study of tabs model understandability on Gaia Firefox (also Android Firefox)

  • report here: http://cl.ly/17233U042W322D1T172J (Larissa)
    
  • Positive findings; two interactions to make clearer, work already underway
    

  [*][other]

  • Blog post from Larissa on design strategy and values: https://blog.mozilla.org/ux/2012/07/create-meaningful-products-by-crafting-a-design-strategy/
    
  • Ideation sessions around design research on saving things for later and discovery
    

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Planning/2012-07-18

[Detection]

FF 15b1 seems to have a massive performance and smoothness boost coming from FF14, much better

[ShMaunder]

FF 15b1 seems to have a massive performance and smoothness boost coming from FF14, much better

Is this only for Windows do you know? I had a bit of a moan about the performance of FF in Linux some posts back.

[Detection]

Is this only for Windows do you know? I had a bit of a moan about the performance of FF in Linux some posts back.

Yea I don't run Linux :)

[ShMaunder]

Yea I don't run Linux :)

OK cool. I'll give it a spin later with an alternative profile.

If it is anything like Firefox 7, then I think we're looking at a big win coming.

[Kirkburn]

I forgot to check this before I went from Aurora 15 to 16, but the addon panel scrolling is finally smooth in 16 :) Relatively small thing, but a good indication of scrolling improvements.

[Kyang]

It's in nightlies now. Feels much more modern and native.

Latest Nightly doesn't seem to show the bookmark stars in the drop down. Is this by design or just a short term bug?

[Brandon H Supervisor]

anyone know why the new android mobile UI(UX?) was scrapped in the Aurora & Nightly builds a few days ago or so?

it felt a lot more functional then the current UI to me

[bogas04]

Latest Nightly doesn't seem to show the bookmark stars in the drop down. Is this by design or just a short term bug?

It is working here.

[mancode20]

I just tried out 15 Beta using the portable method that someone posted. It's very fast and responsive!! Does any version of Firefox after 15 have the fix for the new download panel? When you click on the arrow icon to view your download, it doesn't display properly. It cuts off the download speed and time remaining. They need to either fix it, or allow us the option of stretching/re-sizing the panel. I heard they were working on an updated panel with a fix. Is it in Firefox 16, 17, or maybe the UX version? Also, does the UX version still have animated tabs, or were they backed out yet again? Please link to me the latest UX version with animated tabs .zip file, so that I can use it as a portable version. Thanks!

[Kyang]

It is working here.

I mean in the regular drop down that appears when the down arrow is clicked. Not the one that appears when you begin typing in the URL bar.

[mancode20]

I just tried out 15 Beta using the portable method that someone posted. It's very fast and responsive!! Does any version of Firefox after 15 have the fix for the new download panel? When you click on the arrow icon to view your download, it doesn't display properly. It cuts off the download speed and time remaining. They need to either fix it, or allow us the option of stretching/re-sizing the panel. I heard they were working on an updated panel with a fix. Is it in Firefox 16, 17, or maybe the UX version? Also, does the UX version still have animated tabs, or were they backed out yet again? Please link to me the latest UX version with animated tabs .zip file, so that I can use it as a portable version. Thanks!

I'll answer my own questions. I just tried out 17 Nightly-UX and 17 Nightly. It was totally screwed up! Hardly any of my add-ons were working. The bookmarks bar wasn't even displaying, probably due to my multi-bookmarks toolbar extension. Neither version has animated tabs, so I guess they backed out on it yet again. Not surprised by that. I'm beginning to wonder if they will ever fix that? Also, there does appear to be a new download panel, but it doesn't fix the problem with the download speed and time remaining not displaying properly. I am going to try out Aurora 16 next. I hope I have better luck with that one!

[+Heartripper Subscriber¹]

I mean in the regular drop down that appears when the down arrow is clicked. Not the one that appears when you begin typing in the URL bar.

Not working here either. It appears in the popup when you type but not if you open the popup from the dropmarker

here it works:

here it doesn't. I'll inspect it with DOM inspector