Comments on: Firefox RC2 Tabs UI

By: SuezanneC Baskerville

SuezanneC Baskerville — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 02:13:25 +0000

Regarding someone “who hates all the distracting and silly gradients” – I’m in that group. It is so much easier to read text against a uniform colored background. I’m trying to find how to eliminate the gradient in the tabs in Firefox 4.1 Beta.

So many software developers work hard to do complicated things, such as HTML5, for a browser related example, but don’t make the simple things simple to do, such as have the interface gradient free.

By: Your Face

Your Face — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 06:43:58 +0000

What are you talking about? Mozilla put the shiny tabs in long before anyone had even seen IE7!

By: sbt

sbt — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 07:54:29 +0000

userchrome info is scattered. ask at mozillazine. i agree, ff1 had good iconage. ff2 is washed out. however, they’re trying to add functionality, by adding states (better than just 2 states: gray when non-hovered, colorful when hovered). I’ve also had the impression that a lot of the ui changes (not necessarily for better) have come from mac os’s.

And only The Shadow knows from whom apple steals ui concepts, a-hahahahahaha.

By: nonhocapito

nonhocapito — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:16:01 +0000

What a guy who hates all the distracting and silly gradients has to do these days? I hate al the round corners and the gradient surfaces! and yet they seem to be mandatory these days.
Does anyone knows how to get rid of these gradients and have the old firefox toolbars back?
Maybe a userchrome snippet? How that background is forced onto those tabs?
sigh…

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:04:34 +0000

I think the tab X came from Safari on the Mac and an extension some had done for Firefox 1.0. It may (or may not) have been in development at the same time MS was doing IE7’s tab implementation.