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When chrome came out nobody took the defense of this

saying that google was copying with chrome tabs :)

True that. But you can not deny the mockups make firefox a look-alike of chrome

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True that. But you can not deny the mockups make firefox a look-alike of chrome

The only thing you can say is that chrome had that shape first, but it wasn't invented by google... anyway i don't like it,luckily if we want we can get rid of them with some userstyle :)

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Just great, the UX team removed the full screen function for Lion in the 13.0a1 release today WTH. :angry:

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Any idea when the download manager and/or speed dial will hit nightly? Can't believe it's taking so long. Do Mozilla have one person working on their graphics or something?

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They think using those curvy tabs, make it look prettier? :laugh: Maybe it may look better if they had tabs for inactive borders as well, but it looks unorganized IMO without having a tab for unactive tabs as well. Instead they just have the favicon with just text. It looks awful on Windows.

Thanks for the info btw.

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Any idea when the download manager and/or speed dial will hit nightly? Can't believe it's taking so long. Do Mozilla have one person working on their graphics or something?

New Tab Page is already in Nightly and I think it is now deault to compatible now. As far as Download Manager is concern, it may land in mid development of FF13 or maybe next week.

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New Tab Page is already in Nightly and I think it is now deault to compatible now. As far as Download Manager is concern, it may land in mid development of FF13 or maybe next week.

For some reason, I'm still not seeing it. My new tab page still opens as a blank page. Any way to change turn it on?

Edit: Looks likes it is a conflict with TabsMixPlus. Keeping it on because I need TMP more than the bland new tab page.

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For some reason, I'm still not seeing it. My new tab page still opens as a blank page. Any way to change turn it on?

Edit: Looks likes it is a conflict with TabsMixPlus. Keeping it on because I need TMP more than the bland new tab page.

Use dev build of TMP, and in the tmp options go to Events > New Tabs > Load on new tabs = New tab page. Make sure address is set to about:newtab. That should make it work.

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Any idea when the download manager and/or speed dial will hit nightly? Can't believe it's taking so long. Do Mozilla have one person working on their graphics or something?

Latest planning meeting said its about land

Speed Dial has landed already and is enabled (for nightlies) , if you don't see it then make following changes in about:Config

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They think using those curvy tabs, make it look prettier? :laugh: Maybe it may look better if they had tabs for inactive borders as well, but it looks unorganized IMO without having a tab for unactive tabs as well. Instead they just have the favicon with just text. It looks awful on Windows.

Thanks for the info btw.

I think God made us so that we like "curves" more ...

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Latest planning meeting said its about land

Speed Dial has landed already and is enabled (for nightlies) , if you don't see it then make following changes in about:Config

post-293012-0-50950000-1328428731.png

I think God made us so that we like "curves" more ...

I love "curves" on some "things" but just doesn't look great to me on Firefox tabs. :) Chrome's doesn't seem to be bad, but these I guess seem a bit odd. I guess it can grow on me though. Not having "tabs" and just text for the inactive tabs though may take awhile to adjust. I was trying out the Australis add-on for Windows and I really didn't care for the inactive tabs. Although I do plan on getting a iMac soon and Mac's version looks nicer.

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Just updated to Firefox 11 Beta, can't find any info about it though?

Do a quick google/bing search for "firefox beta 11" news and there will be plenty of articles describing some of the top features and changes. Not hard is it?

In this thread, you are mostly going to find us talking about the Nightly build anyway.

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Just updated to Firefox 11 Beta, can't find any info about it though?

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/12/introducing-aurora-11-with-tons-of-new-features-and-improvements/

Highlights

  • To quickly edit the outerHTML of an element, we have now added support for element.outerHTML.
  • The Battery API
  • Storing files in IndexedDB
  • Support for loop attributes for media elements
  • SPDY (off by preferences)
  • WebSockets no longer needs a prefix when you call them

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Won't the curvy look clash with the angular Win8?

doesn't matter if it does there are plenty of themes to make the tabs square again.
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doesn't matter if it does there are plenty of themes to make the tabs square again.

While it's not something I'm all too sore about, I just found it curious. The other thing I was curious about is why they suddenly want window controls that look different from the default Windows ones.

And on that note, is there a bug to fix the position of the windows controls in the current Nightly? The buttons are just a pixel or two too far to the right. Seems to be a result of fixing the size of the window borders, which were once too thick.

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And on that note, is there a bug to fix the position of the windows controls in the current Nightly? The buttons are just a pixel or two too far to the right. Seems to be a result of fixing the size of the window borders, which were once too thick.

I believe there is. I don't recall the ticket number, but it was mentioned on the ticket that originally caused it.

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