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Security implications for user interface changes?Security implications for user interface changes?Posted Dec 9, 2012 23:19 UTC (Sun) by Baylink (subscriber, #755)Parent article: Security implications for user interface changes?
Mozilla *has* a VP Engineering for Firefox?
Well, that guy should clearly have gotten fired when he let "new major revision number every 6 weeks" get past him out the door, anyway, cause he's clearly professionally incompetent.
This is just more evidence; the change they wish to make -- of which I too am intolerant -- is one that they should not make for a *very good reason* -- a reason which I would place bets lots of the people who are naysaying have mentioned, but which I note none of this coverage seems to mention:
It's *wrong*.
The items they wish to move "inside" the framing of the tabs *are not items which are different on a per-tab basis*; those items *do not belong inside the tabs*.
So, what they're doing is violating one of the standard WIMP design/layout metaphors, which was done that way for very good reason: because it's intuitive the way it is.
But then, it doesn't surprise me much to find that Firefox, like Android, is in pretty dire need of adult supervision.
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Security implications for user interface changes? Posted Dec 10, 2012 0:24 UTC (Mon) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]
> The items they wish to move "inside" the framing of the tabs *are not items which are different on a per-tab basis*; those items *do not belong inside the tabs*.
They don't? The state of the back/forward/refresh buttons and address bar are different for each tab.
Security implications for user interface changes? Posted Dec 10, 2012 0:57 UTC (Mon) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]
Yeah, they are not "the global addressbar, stop/refresh button, back/forward button"... they are "that tab's addressbar and buttons".
Just imagine: if instead of opening a lot of tabs you just opened a lot of windows, each window would have its addressbar and buttons. Then, if you use a tabbing window manager (that groups windows of the same program in tabs), then you would have exactly what Firefox and Chrome has today.
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