The appearance of Firefox 3 varies with the operating system.

October 22 news, for the software, it is no longer just a function, the user needs to be both brilliant appearance and comprehensive. We know that "appearance" is for others to see. This is what the Firefox 3 team plans to discard the unified cross-platform browser appearance and adopt a more attractive look related to the specific operating system.

According to foreign media reports, Firefox 3 will no longer be like the current Firefox version: All platforms adopt a uniform appearance, for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Mac OS X, and a variety of Linux versions, it will have different appearances.

In October 18, Mozilla's UI Designer Alex posted a post on the Firefox 3 interface on his blog. He said, I think that a unified multi-platform user interface may make the software look nondescribable in some cases.

The release of Windows Vista and the forthcoming OS X Leopard make us realize that the charming appearance is becoming more and more important. Obviously, adapting to the unique design of each platform has become an indispensable part of software development. Some believe that this is at the expense of new features, but this trend does not show signs of slowing down.

Applications that do not conform to the integrated operating system design will be "embarrassing" and users will avoid them. Alex wrote that browsers have become the central part of the operating system and we don't want them to feel that they have installed strange applications on their computers. Mozilla's User Experience Team hopes that Firefox's design and Windows are better integrated than IE, and OS X is better integrated than Safari. I don't know if we can achieve this, but this is our goal. This is a high goal, but Alex posted a screen showing his team working hard.

While most people are welcome to Firefox, which has the same appearance and style as the operating system, doing so also has a negative impact. The brand image of Firefox may be compromised to some extent because it looks different on different operating systems, but Alex is not worried about this, he believes that the brand image of Firefox is based on functions rather than appearances. Alex pointed out that when Firefox 1.0 was released, people were interested in its paging browsing and plug-in functions, rather than the icon's appearance.

BKJIA Editor note: the latest Alpha version of Firefox is Alpha 9. If you are interested, you can download it. However, we recommend that you download the stable official version V2.0.0.7.

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