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I love that people are finally thinking about merging the tab bar and the title bar in Firefox! I have some ideas to simply the Firefox 4.0 mock-up further. | I love that people are finally thinking about merging the tab bar and the title bar in Firefox! I have some ideas to simply the Firefox 4.0 mock-up further. | ||
*Combining Stop, Reload, and Go is something I’ve been doing [http://userstyles.org/styles/2131 for years]. I’m glad to see it in the mock-up. But I don’t think a label is necessary for this dynamic button. | * Combining Stop, Reload, and Go is something I’ve been doing [http://userstyles.org/styles/2131 for years]. I’m glad to see it in the mock-up. But I don’t think a label is necessary for this dynamic button. | ||
*The Page button does not need to be separate. The Identity button is already very similar conceptually. It’s also not too useful for most pages. Add a dropmarker to the Identity button and you can now merge it with the Page button. | *The Page button does not need to be separate. The Identity button is already very similar conceptually. It’s also not too useful for most pages. Add a dropmarker to the Identity button and you can now merge it with the Page button. | ||
*Similarly, the Tools button also does not need to be separate. There’s already an unused Firefox icon in the top left corner. That icon should be used as an “application menu”. Windows 7, Office 2007, and Mac OS X all have a separate application menu, which nicely enforces a separation between the application and the document. Conceptually, Tools belongs more in the application menu anyway. A nice side-effect is that the Firefox icon doesn’t just use up space. | * Similarly, the Tools button also does not need to be separate. There’s already an unused Firefox icon in the top left corner. That icon should be used as an “application menu”. Windows 7, Office 2007, and Mac OS X all have a separate application menu, which nicely enforces a separation between the application and the document. Conceptually, Tools belongs more in the application menu anyway. A nice side-effect is that the Firefox icon doesn’t just use up space. | ||
*The Bookmarks toolbar is still missing, and is used by many people. I suggest merging it wholly with the tab bar, in a manner similar to the Mac’s dock. Thus, one can add bookmarks to the left of the tab bar, and they appear as standard favicons. When clicked, that icon turns into a tab in-place. When closed, the tab reverts into a favicon. Not only does this save space, it also removes the duplication caused by having a site appear both on the Bookmarks toolbar and the tab bar at the same time. Essentially, visible bookmarks would transform into permanent tabs. [To clarify, a bookmark tab would now act like a site-specific browser. As long as one was on the same site, one stayed in that special tab. Any links outside that site would open in a new tab. The bookmarks area of the tab bar could have a golden background, similar to the star icon. Bookmarking a site would be as simple as dragging a tab leftwards into that area. —[[User:David Regev|David Regev]] 17:21, 24 July 2009 (UTC)] | * The Bookmarks toolbar is still missing, and is used by many people. I suggest merging it wholly with the tab bar, in a manner similar to the Mac’s dock. Thus, one can add bookmarks to the left of the tab bar, and they appear as standard favicons. When clicked, that icon turns into a tab in-place. When closed, the tab reverts into a favicon. Not only does this save space, it also removes the duplication caused by having a site appear both on the Bookmarks toolbar and the tab bar at the same time. Essentially, visible bookmarks would transform into permanent tabs. [To clarify, a bookmark tab would now act like a site-specific browser. As long as one was on the same site, one stayed in that special tab. Any links outside that site would open in a new tab. The bookmarks area of the tab bar could have a golden background, similar to the star icon. Bookmarking a site would be as simple as dragging a tab leftwards into that area. —[[User:David Regev|David Regev]] 17:21, 24 July 2009 (UTC)] | ||
*The Home button should be deprecated. Bookmarks already do a better job, especially once merged conceptually with the tab bar. However, it might be nice to have a separate Home “meta-tab”. This could be a permanent tab that acts as a dashboard to collect all of one’s ambient information, notifications from Gmail, Twitter, etc., and other “meta” data. It would also be what one saw when all other tabs were closed (solving once and for all the question of whether closing the last tab should close the window). | * The Home button should be deprecated. Bookmarks already do a better job, especially once merged conceptually with the tab bar. However, it might be nice to have a separate Home “meta-tab”. This could be a permanent tab that acts as a dashboard to collect all of one’s ambient information, notifications from Gmail, Twitter, etc., and other “meta” data. It would also be what one saw when all other tabs were closed (solving once and for all the question of whether closing the last tab should close the window). | ||
What do you think? —[[User:David Regev|David Regev]] 06:27, 24 July 2009 (UTC) | What do you think? —[[User:David Regev|David Regev]] 06:27, 24 July 2009 (UTC) | ||