Comments for Chromatic Pixel

Comment on Design Status Update 2011/08/21 – 2011/09/03 by Rahul

Rahul — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:03:45 +0000

Dude updates! Quite intrigued to know what will be next.

Comment on Design Status Update 2011/08/21 – 2011/09/03 by Jeorgun

Jeorgun — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:46:57 +0000

As a contrasting opinion, I, as a linux/KDE user, love the Australis theme. Granted, not all aspects of it integrate perfectly well with KDE, but it works much better than the current almost-a-theme that firefox has on Linux.

Keep up the good work!

Comment on Design Status Update 2011/08/21 – 2011/09/03 by broccauley

broccauley — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:43:27 +0000

As a Windows/KDE user, I absolutely hate everything about “Australis”. The FF4 menu in the top-left made more sense as that has access to one of the screen’s four magic pixels. The blending of the background tabs into the background makes the interface look like a cluttered mess. The excessively rounded tabs are ugly and impractical. The min/max/close buttons on Windows have been butchered to look ugly and disobeyed the Windows default.

It seems that Mac fanatics have taken over the Firefox UI design and Windows/KDE has been an afterthought.

Loved the UI changes from FF3 -> FF4, but this: hate it, hate it, hate it. Leave things alone and as they are in FF11 please. Mac/Ubuntu users can do what they like, but please don’t force what works well only for this minority niche onto the mainstream majority.

Comment on In-Content UI Visual Unification by Firefox 8 Now Available What’s New

Firefox 8 Now Available What’s New — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:31:32 +0000

[...] if it does, version 11 will be the real Firefox update to look forward to, thanks to a long-awaited in-content UI change, a panel-based download manager and web apps [...]

Comment on Design Status Update 2011/08/21 – 2011/09/03 by Marcin

Marcin — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:21:53 +0000

Oh my. I had just stumbled upon this article again and it irked me so much that I did not notice, that I’ve already commented on the same thing before!

Sorry about that

Comment on Design Status Update 2011/08/21 – 2011/09/03 by Marcin

Marcin — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:19:22 +0000

Please make the caption buttons look native. All the theming inconsistency is already a horrible problem with Windows, please don’t make it worse.

Comment on Design Status Update 2011/08/21 – 2011/09/03 by Cobalt

Cobalt — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 05:17:08 +0000

Very nice work, as usual. May I ask what is the background texture used to present the mockups? Thanks.

Comment on Design Status Update 2011/08/21 – 2011/09/03 by projectionist

projectionist — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 02:50:37 +0000

“Big thanks” for contributing on killing UI consistency on all 3 platforms, Mozilla!

It looks pretty, but this shouldn’t be the way.

Comment on Design Status Update 2011/08/21 – 2011/09/03 by Caleb Banzhaf

Caleb Banzhaf — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:44:26 +0000

I LOVE the new Firefox mockups you are working on. There are only a few things that I wish were not changed.

1. The inactive tabs looked nice the way they are right now in firefox 4
2. The ULTRA rounded tabs (like google chrome) in any of the mockups look kinda bad

Other than that… GREAT WORK on the design! ; )

Comment on Design Status Update 2011/08/21 – 2011/09/03 by Jason

Jason — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:51:30 +0000

Firstly, it is a fact that Chrome use curve edge tabs first, if Firefox were to “copy” them, user will trash Firefox for being not creative at all.

Secondly, Personally I feel that square tabs feel neater.

Thirdly, since Australis removes the outlines of the background tabs, it might be better if users can choose how the primary tab look like(between Square tab default and its chrome rounded alternative).

I believe that this theme need to be put into nightly in order to get feedback.