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Firefox in 2012

append delete Nikolai

According to MozillaLinks blog [1], Mozilla has published their roadmap for 2012 [2].

First few screenshots look pretty well and interesting, there is a new and slick UI, but then I hit the horrible apps screen. I understand that these are only mockups, but those will find their way into the release sooner or later. Seriously, apps? And what is this - "Welcome, Jennifer..."?

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[1] http://mozillalinks.org/2012/02/new-theme-top-performance-coming-to-firefox-this-year/
[2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Roadmap

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append delete #1. Kroc

They’re reduced to playing catchup with Chrome, and by doing so, being infected with Google’s commercial goals (app store, accounts, browser ID, spam-UI)

The solution to app-stores is not more app-stores.

I’m looking forward to a few things though:

* Silent updating (updating is always a sore point the hundreds of customers I manage)

* Panel-based download manager (the current one has always sucked, people download things several times because it's not obvious how to launch anything)

* Search hijack prevention (oh the times I’ve had to deal with this)

:: Things I wish they would actually fix:

* 10 year old CSS/HTML bugs
* The import browser data wizard being single-threaded and giving the timeout warning (Mozilla don’t seem to appreciate just how slow _most_ people's computers are)
* Stop placing an icon on the Windows 7 desktop, that's what the task bar is for!

append delete #2. Jose Pedro Arvela

Those images are of Australis, mockups made at least 5 or 6 months ago. They also appeared a few days after some big discussion on Bugzilla after an attempt from the Firefox developers to use native toolbar buttons which was hijacked and prevented by some addon developers (that's why I don't use Stratiform anymore, the developer basically called a bunch of friends into spamming bugzilla against such measures, because he didn't like it and was comparing using native style to using Windows 95 apps on Aero, which was an outright lie and incredibly annoying).

The panel-based download manager is a plus and I must admit it annoys me it wasn't developed earlier (the Safari panel was based on Firefox mockups and plans, just so you can see how long this is planned for inclusion).

I agree with the rest, it also bugs me that Mozilla decided to drop support for embedding Gecko in other apps (unfortunately I don't have links to prove this, but I know I've heard it somewhere), which is (in my opinion), one of the reasons Webkit is gaining such popularity and basically undermining the mobile web (developers are mining themselves by only using the webkit prefix because they only care that it works somewhere, if there was a bigger variety of default browser engines, and not just webkit variations, on mobiles, developers would be forced to make it compatible with more engines, or else their sites wouldn't work, this is also why it bugs me so much that embedding Opera requires paying a fee, thus making it unlikely to see Opera as the default browser on mobile).

append delete #3. bagel

I'd like to see some progress on the interface. Mock-ups aplenty, but the only thing they've implemented is hiding the Forward button. The new Downloads pop-up's been taken out of the UX builds.

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