UX Branch Discussion

[bogas04]

Didn't find appropriate thread for the discussion of UX branch

These are regularly-updated builds from the Firefox UX project branch, where you can preview some experimental UI features that need testing and tweaking over time.

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[bogas04]

Some noticeable features as of 19 june 2011

Tab re ordering Animations
Toolbarless AppTabs
New Tab Page : Speed Dial

[Juiced]

It's good to see that the tab animations have finally landed. I seriously do not know how the development was so slow. Good progress was made leading up to Fx4, and then the developers lose interest and star working on some 'less important' ChromeOS style full-screen thing. And still a huge amount of work to be done if it is going to be anywhere near to as slick as Chrome.
Also it's sad to see that the UI is still not up to scratch, sure some mock-ups have been made but that's all really; I don't know if the UI team works part-time on Firefox or if they are all volunteers? But it seems that is the only reason for this rate of progress.

[bogas04]

True. Although tab animations have landed , its so slow and cpu intensive ! I guess they gotta do something about memory usage/chrome performance , the UI doesnt feel as snappy as they promise

[Zlip792]

I red your comment that latest UX build uses less RAM than Nightly? Well it is strange but good sign, I am first time going to test any new UI feature above mentioned. Lets see. Will give my remarks later.

[mozian]

UX features as of Thu Jun 16 03:37:27 2011 cset afd5816f8e53

- [All] New Tab Feature (Bug 455553)
- [All] Streamline the visual appearance of the search field (Bug 592909)
- [Mac] Fullscreen mode
- [All] Toolbarless app tabs (Bug 644721)
- [All] Animate tab reordering and detaching (Bug 455694)

[nadark]

What happened with the new download manager?

[WonderCsabo]

It's not landed, yet, being worked on the bug. AFAIK Paolo is a contributor, so he can't work as much as the full-time Mozilla devs.

[Azn]

Is there some work underway to migrate more app modal dialogs to be tab modal? Each day I'm greeted by one of those app modal username/password dialogs when my app tap with Web Exchange gets loaded which I could live without.

[Chicharrero]

The new tab feature is in the UX Branch? Sorry but I can´t see this feature.

[WonderCsabo]

Are u using the latest UX build? In new tabs you should see a grid of page icons instead of the usual blank page.

[Chicharrero]

Yes, I´m using the latest UX build. But I solved that. I was using another profile instead of the principal, that´s my fault. Now it works perfectly.

[Omega X]

I seriously do not know how the development was so slow. I don't know if the UI team works part-time on Firefox or if they are all volunteers? But it seems that is the only reason for this rate of progress.

My theory is that they don't want to release anything until its 100% finished. Every time they release something half done, they get shredded for it.

So now we wait until the end of time before we get any new enhancements.

[dkgo]

Bug 663772 - Implement new Download Manager status indicator for browser

https://bug663772.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=538844

[sabret00the]

I seriously do not know how the development was so slow. I don't know if the UI team works part-time on Firefox or if they are all volunteers? But it seems that is the only reason for this rate of progress.

My theory is that they don't want to release anything until its 100% finished. Every time they release something half done, they get shredded for it.

So now we wait until the end of time before we get any new enhancements.

Yup that's pretty much exactly how it is, though that said, releasing everything all at once doesn't help either, they need to work on their timings so that stuff staggers out at a natural pace. at the moment it feels like they're holding on to finished features.