What will the Firefox 4 look like?

by Veera on September 28, 2009

In one of the Mozilla Wiki page, Firefox developers have shared their ideas for the Firefox 4 user interface. They’ve also added a screenshot of the proposed user interface of Firefox 4, which is shown below:

Proposed user interface for Firefox 4 (screenshot)

As you can see in the above proposed screenshot of Firefox 4 browser:

The Tabs are moved above the address bar.
Search box has been removed and the functionality is combined with the address bar.
No Title bar. Only Tabs.
Menu bar is also removed and the menu options are clubbed into two buttons namely ‘Page’ and ‘Tools’ on the right side of the window.
Removing the bottom status bar is also being proposed for the Firefox 4 UI.

Are you smelling some similarities here? Yeah! All these UI enhancements are already there in one browser, called Google Chrome.

Hmm. Interesting.

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{ 9 comments }

Suhas September 28, 2009 at 11:03 PM: Ya saw the screen-shot a few days back on lifehacker……at the very first sight of it we can guess that the design is inspired(copied?) from Chrome….everything including the back and fwd page icons looks like chrome…
Veera September 29, 2009 at 12:00 AM: @ Suhas

//design is inspired(copied?) from Chrome….//

hm. If all the browsers are going to have more or less similar user interface, that will reduce the confusion when you switch between the browsers. In that way, i’ll welcome the FF 4 UI.
Ben George September 29, 2009 at 3:40 AM: What will the Firefox 4 look like?

Simple answer: chrome
Veera September 29, 2009 at 12:38 PM: @Ben George,

Exactly the point.
thomasd September 29, 2009 at 3:54 PM: yeah, looks great!

if firefox 4 looks like chrome there is a big reason less to use chrome.
Veera September 29, 2009 at 6:23 PM: @ thomasd,

yes. Chrome is definitely a revolutionary user interface design. There is no wonder that the other browsers also wants to jumto into the same boat of Chrome. But, as you said, if FF comes with Chrome’s look-and-feel, FF users will not be switching to Chrome.
Tahir Akram October 3, 2009 at 3:04 AM: Mozilla people really need to reduce the load time of Firefox and some other performance issues. Like you type something in address bar and it took some seconds to populate the drop down.
BlogrPro October 3, 2009 at 8:18 PM: I am still irritated with the over memory usage of Firefox. Rather than FF is my first and last option for browsing.
Veera October 4, 2009 at 9:31 AM: @ Tahir and BlogrPro

Slow Firefox !? That’s an universal problem.