Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
New Firefox themes arrive
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.
Robin` [February 1st, 2008, 2:17 pm; Permalink]
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 :)
Peter [February 1st, 2008, 2:33 pm; Permalink]
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.
Robin [February 1st, 2008, 4:52 pm; Permalink]
Yeah, I definitely agree that this is better. Will be interested to see how they tailor the keyhole to look ‘native’ actually.
Gil Bates [February 3rd, 2008, 6:45 pm; Permalink]
Wow! That windows theme is hideous. Unless it’s meant to fit in with win95. Then of course, it’s just lovely :)