Firefox 2.0 Theme Revealed

Who says OSS can't look good?

Published on July 13, 2006 By Zoomba In WinCustomize News

Yesterday, early mockups of the new UI for the 2.0 release of the popular web browser, Mozilla Firefox, were posted to the Mozilla wiki. Three vendors (Radiant Core, Meta and Raiz Labs) submitted proposals for the new theme, with Radiant Core winning out with their design.

The requirements for the new theme were simple:

respect OS native look and feel
appear modern and contemporary with current web and client apps
appear consistent across platforms
have minimum to zero code impact requirements (ie: all CSS and icon work)

You can see screenshots of the new visual elements on the Mozilla wiki page.

Comments

DesignCaddy

on Jul 13, 2006

So, now it looks just like Opera. Way to go.

Keikonium

on Jul 13, 2006

I like the new look. The tabs remind me way to much of Opera (from what I remember anyway

) but they do look great. Everything seems alot more glossy and shadowed which is nice. I imagine this would look GREAT with the WMC Royale visual theme. I liked the "go" buttons (at the end of URL, and Search bars) better when they were seperate, however. The glow effect on RSS is nice

.

Good job to team Radiant Core for being selected

.

To bad there was no preview of the other 2 teams designs

.

(Also, couldn't this pretty much be achieved with a skin on FF 1.5

)

c242

on Jul 13, 2006

Button-Icons are still ugly... Standard with a glare. So what ?

RPGFX

on Jul 13, 2006

Who really cares what it looks like? Aren't we all just going to skin it anyway?

I know I am...

thomassen

on Jul 15, 2006

I didn't think it was that much of an improvement...

Aquamonkey

on Jul 15, 2006

I didn't think it was that much of an improvement...

Yeah it's pretty ordinary

Fuzzy Logic

on Jul 16, 2006

Yawn...

PurrBall

on Jul 16, 2006

I like how the browser window is a screenshot of OSX and the border is Windows.

thomassen

on Jul 16, 2006

I like how the browser window is a screenshot of OSX and the border is Windows.

eh? what part of that is OSX?

thomassen

on Jul 16, 2006

oh wait. I see it now. That also explains the odd anti-aliasing of the text in the screenshot.

Adamness

on Jul 16, 2006

Well, all I can say is: hooray for skinning!

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