14 DAY TRIAL // Early adopters that followed the development process of the next major iteration of Firefox, already know that a major graphical user interface overhaul was also introduced, with more and more pieces of the revamped UI falling into place as additional Beta releases were offered. At the end of the past month, Mozilla designer Stephen Horlander posted a free screenshots offering insights on just how far the UI redesign of Firefox 4.0 has come.
Users are bound to agree that the Windows flavor of Firefox has suffered the most changes, with the new user interface differing dramatically from the old version.
According to Horlander, work on the overhauling the Firefox 4.0 UI is almost complete, with Mozilla now moving to soften any rough corners.
“In its current state the theme has most of the major bits in place and they now just await tweaks and polish,” he explained.
The screenshots included at the bottom of this article are also illustrative of just how has the Firefox 4.0 UI evolved since Mozilla embarked on the revamping efforts.
The company notes that the feedback it received from testers of the many Firefox 4.0 Beta Builds related to the new UI has been mainly positive.
The screenshots below illustrate how the UI changed between May 2010 and the current pre-Beta 7 nightly Build of Firefox 4.0.
“In an effort to advance the polish stage I have updated the Timeline/Milestone page of the theme project wikipage,” Horlander stated.
“This page now contains a list of bugs that still need to be fixed before Firefox 4. The list is sorted in order of priority and anything that is listed above “Lower priority bugs” is considered required.
“Anything below that is high priority polish. I am attempting to keep it current with regards to ownership and status to the best of my knowledge.
“The list is not comprehensive and there are other outstanding theme bugs that are not listed there. I am trying to keep the scope to required bugs and the most glaring issues that need polish. It is also not a static list. I add new bugs as I find them.”
Firefox 4 Beta 6 for Windows is available for download here.
Firefox 4 Beta 6 for Linux is available for download here.
Firefox 4 Beta 6 for Mac is available for download here.
