Ubuntu Today: Firefox To Get A New Default Theme, Other Enhancements

Senin, 20 Februari 2012

Firefox To Get A New Default Theme, Other Enhancements

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According to the Firefox 2012 roadmap, Mozilla plans to introduce some major changes and new features this year, including a new theme called Australis:

Firefox - GNOME 3

Firefox - Ubuntu

Firefox - OSX

Firefox - Windows 7

Unfortunately, there are still no plans to support tabs in the titlebar for Linux (because of GTK limitations), but most other UI changes should be available for Linux too.

As you can see in the images above, Firefox will use Chrome-like curved tabs on all platforms and apparently, the menu will be moved next to the locationbar. Further more, a new built-in download panel should finally replace the separate Firefox download window. There's already a custom Firefox build that comes with this new download panel:

Besides the changes mentioned above, there are many other new features that should land in Firefox this year:

a new tab page (an initial version is already available in the latest Firefox Aurora builds) powered by the Awesomebar, with a new "speed dial" and new home tab
Chrome migration
Web Apps (-webapp mode) and WebApps Marketplace integration
reworked session restore and a new Firefox restore which lets you restore bookmarks, passwords, etc.
Firefox Share: share links / update status across social networks
Firefox Login: user-centric site logins - one login for all the websites you us
in-line Preferences Manager
seamless plug-in install and update experience
built-in PDF viewer
more!

For more info, visit the Firefox roadmap page.

via blog.desdelinux.net