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2009
Information Architects » Blog Archive » Designing Firefox 3.2
by sbrothier
In January 2000, T-Online asked us what we’d do if we could design a browser from scratch. Our answer was “Tabs”. Eight years later Aza Raskin, head of user experience at Mozilla, asked me what I think a new tab should look like. The answer after days of mailing back and forth: “Forget tabs!”
The Ultimate List of Custom Ubiquity Verbs
by ghis & 1 other
With all the news about Chrome, it's been pretty easy to forget about one of Firefox's recent releases: Ubiquity. We gave Ubiquity a rave review for giving Firefox a whole new UI. The standard commands, or "verbs", that come with Ubiquity are great. Yet we couldn't help but want more. Developers have been working around the clock to produce some fantastic custom verbs for Ubiquity. Here is ReadWriteWeb's list of the top picks of custom Ubiquity verbs!
2008
Mark Finkle’s Weblog » Fennec - M9 (User Experience Alpha)
by Xavier Lacot
Mozilla is releasing desktop versions of Fennec, the mobile version of Firefox targeted at being the concurrent of Iphone's Safari. As for the first tests, the user experience is rather convenient. It's w00t to be able to use flash on mobile devices!
2007
Alex Faaborg
by sbrothier & 1 other
Welcome to my blog. I recently joined Mozilla as a User Experience Designer, and on this blog I will be writing about many of the user facing features in Firefox 3.
InfoQ: Is XML the Future of UI Development?
by nhoizey
Or is it JavaScript? A common trend in the new crop of desktop UI frameworks is that they are XML based with some sort of support for JavaScript. We take a brief look at AJAX, WPF/XAML, Flex/MXML, and Firefox’s Gran Paradiso.
2006
GNOME: The Free Software Desktop Project
by macroron
desktop environment, an intuitive and attractive desktop for end-users, users, and the GNOME development platform, an extensive framework for building applications that integrate into the rest of the desktop.
Nautilus File Manager Scripts: Welcome to G-Scripts
by macroron & 3 others
useful scripts for use in Gnome's Nautilus file manager.
Inside Firefox - The Inside Track on Firefox Development
by François Hodierne (via)
This is the first in a series of essays about Firefox design and development.
XUL Tutorial
by macroron & 4 others
This tutorial describes XUL, the XML User-interface Language. This language was created for the Mozilla application and is used to define its user interface.
2005
Pie menus Firefox Extention
by macroron
a hierarchical, context-sensitive pie menu for Mozilla. It offers an alternative to both the normal context menu and mouse gestures. The feeling is very similar to mouse gestures. But there also is a GUI so you don't have to look up what options are avail
Optimoz Tweaks - Firefox Extention
by macroron
This extension consist of several modules, each of them optimizing a certain part of the Firefox's and Mozilla's user interface. The basic idea is always to enhance existing controls, and not introduce new ones.
Mouse Gestures Docimentation
by macroron & 4 others
rapid execution of common browser commands with mouse movements
