Firefox 12 Home page will get a number of additional properties.
Browser warfare, shifting from interest to falling IE market share on the confrontation between Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, forces the Mozilla Foundation to introduce new improvements to its browser that would force users to think again whether to switch to the browser of the search giant. It is gratifying that the developers of Firefox from the point of view of the interface - what is visible to all users, and not changes under the hood - after all, do not just copy the functionality of Chrome, but also add new tools that are not in Chrome yet.
For the sake of fairness, it should be noted that the new features of Firefox 12’s Homepage have already raised new questions or even criticism (even the nightly build has been changed), because they have pushed the browser further away from the advantage that users have to Chrome - functional simplicity. Under the cat offers a quick look at those proposals that may appear soon in Firefox 12, if the plans of the developers do not change.
So, in the first option, it is proposed to change the Firefox 12 Homepage, adding down a row of buttons to access the bookmarks, browsing history, browser settings, applications and downloads. Any other changes in this case, obviously, will not be compared to the already existing option.
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Another, more substantial and, as it is noticed, “heavy” functionally version of the “Home Page” is presented below.
It is not difficult to notice a number of new tools here: a list of the most frequently used applications, large icons of recently visited sites, similar type of “shared” link icons, and even an IM client, very similar to the one that exists in Gmail. Comparing this option with Chrome, it’s impossible not to notice that Google developers are following the more “ascetic” interface, dividing the icons of visited sites and applications into different tabs, while Mozilla believes that the more tools the user sees on the Firefox page that opens, the better it will be for him.
How many people have so many opinions, however, to note the general trend of simplifying browser interfaces is already possible even for an unassuming user - just look at the interface of IE 9. It remains to hope that in the case of Mozilla we will have enough freedom in the settings so that everyone can accept for myself the decision on the use of possible options for the new interface, if it is still adopted for release in Firefox 12.
For the sake of fairness, it should be noted that the new features of Firefox 12’s Homepage have already raised new questions or even criticism (even the nightly build has been changed), because they have pushed the browser further away from the advantage that users have to Chrome - functional simplicity. Under the cat offers a quick look at those proposals that may appear soon in Firefox 12, if the plans of the developers do not change.
So, in the first option, it is proposed to change the Firefox 12 Homepage, adding down a row of buttons to access the bookmarks, browsing history, browser settings, applications and downloads. Any other changes in this case, obviously, will not be compared to the already existing option.
')
Another, more substantial and, as it is noticed, “heavy” functionally version of the “Home Page” is presented below.
It is not difficult to notice a number of new tools here: a list of the most frequently used applications, large icons of recently visited sites, similar type of “shared” link icons, and even an IM client, very similar to the one that exists in Gmail. Comparing this option with Chrome, it’s impossible not to notice that Google developers are following the more “ascetic” interface, dividing the icons of visited sites and applications into different tabs, while Mozilla believes that the more tools the user sees on the Firefox page that opens, the better it will be for him.
How many people have so many opinions, however, to note the general trend of simplifying browser interfaces is already possible even for an unassuming user - just look at the interface of IE 9. It remains to hope that in the case of Mozilla we will have enough freedom in the settings so that everyone can accept for myself the decision on the use of possible options for the new interface, if it is still adopted for release in Firefox 12.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/137184/
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