September 4, 2004

Small UI Glitches in Firefox

If you're a UI freak like me, then you'll appreciate Lim Chee Aun's rundown of Firefox UI glitches. Unsignificant as they may seem for some of you, I say it's the details that make a product a success. Not that Firefox isn't already a success, but hopefully, all of these "bugs" will be fixed anyway.

Posted by djst at September 4, 2004 1:28 PM
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Can you file bugs for them? You can get away with more bugs than normal people and help Firefox.

Posted by: Ihu at September 4, 2004 2:48 PM

Some of the existing bugs that I found:
Tooltips background colors:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161600

Bookmark context menu: (one of them at least)
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=243235

Disable menu for inactive window:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164608

In PageSetup the internal window changes size:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240817

Posted by: Brian P at September 4, 2004 4:21 PM

How about allowing users to drag menus. Try keeping the mouse button pressed down while open a menu like "File" or "Edit", and then a submenu like "send". In every Windows program, it automatically goes to the next menu, but in Firefox it stays stuck and you have to reclick it everytime...

(yes, you did say "small" UI glitches, right? ;))

Posted by: JohnD at September 4, 2004 7:39 PM

^ Nevermind, it's only if you click after the first menu.

Acutally you know all that Firefox really needs are toolbar grippies like in IE. Moving those big toolbars like Google @ mozdev.org is a hassle if you do it button by button...

Posted by: JohnD at September 4, 2004 7:47 PM

Lim Chee has done some fine work in identifying lots of little problems. I've got a few more and his tracking in http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257480

-Asa

Posted by: Asa Dotzler at September 5, 2004 12:20 AM

Another small UI glitch I've noticed is that when you click a toolbar button, the button image doesn't shift down to the right as it does in other windows applications

Posted by: Håvard Lindset at September 5, 2004 12:41 PM

Here's another that's just been fixed:
Bookmarks toolbar folder under bookmarks hasn't the same context menu as other bookmark folders
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251335

Posted by: Brian P at September 9, 2004 4:27 PM