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Oct. 17th, 2009 05:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
roadrunnertwiceThere must be a word for the wanderlust that makes a dude switch back to the nightly builds of Firefox when the current version is working just fine.
Anyway, I'm running the pre-release builds of Firefox 3.6 (Namoroka) now, and the new new-tab behavior is absolutely Not Finished. It is causing mass confusion in this here house, and before you start thinking that I'm just resisting change, I should mention that I've been forced to use Internet Explorer 7 at work for my new job, that IE7 has new-tab behavior identical to Fx3.6's, and that **IE7 does it better,** making it intuitive and unconfusing. (Wow, that actually kind of burns to say.)
As far as I can tell, the pratfall basically comes down to animation. IE has it, Fx3.6 doesn't. (Yet; I need to go hunting in Bugzilla and see if they're already planning to add it.) Remember how shitty the scrolling tab bar was in Firefox 2? And how it suddenly felt good to use in version 3? 's all about the visual feedback, and the new tab spawning behavior needs some. Just an animated push-to-the-right and a tiny piece of blue glow like they used to have on the far edge of the tab bar, and this'll be ready for primetime. Until then, it plain sucks.
Anyway, I'm running the pre-release builds of Firefox 3.6 (Namoroka) now, and the new new-tab behavior is absolutely Not Finished. It is causing mass confusion in this here house, and before you start thinking that I'm just resisting change, I should mention that I've been forced to use Internet Explorer 7 at work for my new job, that IE7 has new-tab behavior identical to Fx3.6's, and that **IE7 does it better,** making it intuitive and unconfusing. (Wow, that actually kind of burns to say.)
As far as I can tell, the pratfall basically comes down to animation. IE has it, Fx3.6 doesn't. (Yet; I need to go hunting in Bugzilla and see if they're already planning to add it.) Remember how shitty the scrolling tab bar was in Firefox 2? And how it suddenly felt good to use in version 3? 's all about the visual feedback, and the new tab spawning behavior needs some. Just an animated push-to-the-right and a tiny piece of blue glow like they used to have on the far edge of the tab bar, and this'll be ready for primetime. Until then, it plain sucks.