Mozilla contributor Stephen Horlander is still hard at work, sharing his ideas for a revamped Windows 7 theme for Firefox 4.0.
According to Horlander, the expected Firefox facelift is now solely expected in Firefox 4, and not gradually through Firefox 3.7 and Firefox 4.0.
In this revision, the Application button (marked #1 on the mockup above) has been reworked to incorporate the new Windows 7 single button menus, already present in Paint and Wordpad on Windows 7.
Work has also been done on the toolbar and location bar.
More mockups and information can be found on Horlanders blog post.
Current Firefox users can download the Strata40 Firefox Theme, which gives the browser a similar appearance.
Refining Toolbar Button Appearance:
Some initial work has gone into making the toolbar buttons more visible on light backgrounds and more crisp and dimensional (pressable).
This is work I am constantly reevaluating since they appear on variable backgrounds.
3) Location Bar:
Created some very early visuals for reevaluating site identity. Also the location bar is now properly recessed instead of floating.
4) Retain Separate Search Bar:
With the LocationBar containing an increasing amount of functionality it may be best to retain a clear distinction between the two fields.
yoshi314 wrote on December 22, 2009 at 10:58 pm
i suppose this will be windows7-only feature. am i right?
Alex wrote on December 23, 2009 at 12:36 pm
This design specificity, but Vista and XP are set to get similar designs too – http://www.browser-watch.com/2009/07/29/first-look-firefox-4-0-interface/ – so it’s not all bad.