They have provided a page with a video and screenshots and, so far, the response has been mostly positive. Mozilla has asked for feedback and is undertaking usability testing. However, it’s possibly easier to select tabs at the top of a window which is positioned at the screen edge. The downside is the increased mouse distance to the tabs. I’m sure Chrome and Opera also influenced their thinking. Notifications: some error and warning messages now appear below the address bar.It makes no sense to have the address bar and other controls visible.
Mozilla cite four main reasons for their change of opinion: Let’s hope they address it in IE9.įirefox had tabs below the address bar since the early Phoenix days and, although there are many tab extensions, there aren’t many which rearrange the position. Microsoft position tabs below all the other controls, although I suspect the IE7/8 interface was designed by committee. Apple tried a similar arrangement in the Safari 4 beta, but abandoned the idea and returned to tabs below the address bar in all subsequent versions. Google Chrome went further than most vendors and replaced the window title with a tab bar. Opera 7 was one of the first browsers to feature tabs - they were positioned above the address bar although the back, forward, refresh and home icons were above the tabs. Until now, the browser vendors have been fairly evenly split. The tab positioning debate has raged for years, but the organization has determined that on-top is the most logical arrangement. Mozilla has decided that tabs will appear above the address bar by default in Firefox 4.0.
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