Again, mixed feeling with the progression of Fx. I like some of the enhancements but yes it getting away from the simplicity that Fx was know for. In some ways I think the ‘market’ for Fx has changed as power users are looking for an alternative to IE that gives them a lot of features. May be Mozilla doesn’t want to lose this market share to Opera. Goes back to a discussion we had here a couple weeks back about a ‘lite’ version of Fx.

Yeah, there is no doubt that Firefox wants to cater to the Opera crowd as well, because those are very dedicated people. Those are the type of people who go all out to get other people to switch to their browser.

Mozilla will probably start getting enough grief that they’ll also begin making a more lite version of the browser. The coolest thing is if you could pick and choose which features you wanted before downloading, but that would require lots of servers to handle the processing.

I couldn’t agree with you more. The tagging in Flock is very nice and it is something that Mozilla obvioiusly saw as useful. I’m sure we’ll start seeing more things in Firefox that makes interaction with social sites easier. We’re not talking anywhere on the level of what Flock has, but Mozilla will probably make it super easy for extension developers to add services like Del.icio.us, Google Bookmarks, and My Yahoo!.

Then in the future they will probably also do things with other social sites making it easy for developers to interact with live information provided by sites, such as with Digg. While things like this can already be done, Mozilla can make doing it much more effecient so that there are less problems caused by extensions.

Oh yeah, nothing matches up to that Locationbar. I wish Mozilla would just add something like that into the browser instead of beating around the bush to come up with something different.

The single-click on the favicon is also huge…Can’t wait!

I don’t see the above mentioned items as changes but more like enhancements.

It’s not like there is a major change to the UI coming (colors, fonts, graphics, location of common elements).

I think some of the stuff is capable of changing the UI quite a bit, such as switching into private browsing mode. Firefox, in my opinion, will look like a more polished browser that is ready to kick butt if they got these kind of graphics in place.

I’m hoping that this kind of stuff will make it into the final release as well, but all I can do is hope. Mozilla has a lot of stuff on their plate that they want to get into that release so I’m not sure if they will have the time to change the graphics around as well.

I hear ya! Some of my favorite extensions (including Gmarks) just got updated but they actually broke in the latest nightlies. I’m hoping that extension developers will start to jump on the update bandwagon a little earlier than in the past, but most of them never seem to get updated until the Firefox release candidates make their way out.

No doubt about that. After seeing this I began wondering why no other browser has ever thought about that. I mean really, Internet Explorer doesn’t even have it and it is so tightly integrated with Windows?

Na, no programmers need to know how to spell. I guess it is technically spelled right, just used in the wrong context. So at least they know how to use a spell checker.

Also, my Firefox already looks kinda different, I’d hate to have to customize all over again. Check out the [img507.imageshack.us] (notice the minimize button that’s replaced the close )