The latest nightly releases of Firefox 3 (warning: download nightlies at your own risk) for Windows and OS X feature the new themes for each platform for the first time (click to enlarge the thumbnails):
Both are nicely designed and look as if they will integrate well with their respective desktops, although it must be noted that I don’t believe that either is in its fully completed state yet.
More interesting to me, however, was the news that JPEG decoding has been increased by 30%; I tried it out on Flickr, and the pages loaded extremely quickly; the updated Gecko engine is already fast, and now pages load even faster. Speed tests against Safari (currently the fastest web browser) should be interesting.
The Mac theme will also gain the ‘keyhole’ design in the near future. Something for me to get used to I suppose, I always split the forwards/backwards cluster and put reload in the middle. But that’s just me I suppose :)
Robin` [February 1st, 2008, 2:17 pm]
I thought the new back/forward button would be tricky to get used to, but then I realised how little I actually use the forward button, and so I’m pretty sure this makes more sense.
Peter [February 1st, 2008, 2:33 pm]
Yeah, I definitely agree that this is better. Will be interested to see how they tailor the keyhole to look ‘native’ actually.
Robin [February 1st, 2008, 4:52 pm]
Wow! That windows theme is hideous. Unless it’s meant to fit in with win95. Then of course, it’s just lovely :)
Gil Bates [February 3rd, 2008, 6:45 pm]