Firefox Mobile
Mobile Mozilla user experience designer, Ian Barlow, identified some of the models earlier this month a new Firefox interface device for tablets. The design includes the provision of contact focused and visual elements that are consistent with a "hologram" way of Android 3.0.
Firefox mobile developers have already taken the first steps to implement the new user interface. He landed this week and is available to test the latest version of Firefox Mobile for Android overnight. I installed it on Galaxy Tab 10.1 pill to see how it compares with the previous UI iteration of Firefox Mobile.
Although the new user interface is not finished and will change, not yet ready for regular end users, is a promising start and provides a pleasant visual experience with Android on the tablet. The application has a simple form: the navigation bar at the top of the screen and side panel on the left side, showing thumbnails of each open tab. The content of Web pages load in the center of the screen.
The top navigation bar there are buttons on the front and rear, a field for entering a URL, stop / refresh buttons, buttons, tabs and menus. By placing the focus on the URL input field, the browser displays a menu for selecting the final pages, bookmarks, history items, or other computer chips. You can switch between these categories with finger-friendly blocks that appear in the menu on the left.
When you start typing, the menu changes to provide for the style AwesomeBar completion. This is a very effective and convenient to use the touch screen. Running the AwesomeBar was very well during my test, but do not know how you would go to the most densely populated in the database (I just started using Firefox on the machine, so I'm sailing with the profile of the charges) .
The tab bar to the left of the screen is essentially a function of the equivalent functionality in previous iterations of Firefox Mobile. Sketches of all inactive tabs disappeared, so it is easy to see which tab is active at a glance. There are "X" icon on each tab, you can use to close it.
When the tab is closed, it had fallen to the bottom of the screen and a collection of icons of the restaurants where you can enter again. Only for the last full record is displayed in the bottom of the slot closed tabs do not add up. This means that if you close the two tabs in a row, you will be able to reconstruct the past.
In the bottom of the tab bar is a button you can click to open a new tab. URL address field in the center input automatically when creating a new tab, activate the menu. This seems a good approach, and is better than a new tab page traditional office.
My biggest disappointment with the current implementation, the user interface is that the tab bar is always fixed in place and can not be hid. In contrast to the standard Firefox interface mobile, the new interface does not allow the tablet next to the tab to drag off the screen. This is a question that can be considered as a new interface matures.
In addition to sports home user interface, every night I tested is based also offers some features integration with the platform. When you bookmark a page, click the star, the browser allows you to add a link to the current page to the Android home screen.
The browser is also associated with the content sharing system Android. When you select a page from the Actions menu, you will exchange standard Android, allowing you to select a third party application you want to complete the action. I tested this feature with several applications and found that worked mostly as expected. He was able to pass the URL into Evernote, a standard mail client, and Read It Later.
Application performance is generally good. Kinetic scrolling on the main content area is soft, but the physics of movement does not seem quite the same as the native Android. Capture hint works, but it seems to be automatic welding of the text. The image quality is generally good, but the distance between letters in the text a little and does not seem very consistent. All features of the browser is the same as what users expect from a mobile Firefox. He supports the amendments and communicates with the Mozilla Firefox synchronization function.
Obviously, there is still room for improvement, but the nightly build I've tried a lot better than I expected, especially considering the fact that it represents the first cut in the new user interface. It seems that Firefox Mobile is coming to the third competitive advantage possible to navigate the Android pill.
Firefox mobile developers have already taken the first steps to implement the new user interface. He landed this week and is available to test the latest version of Firefox Mobile for Android overnight. I installed it on Galaxy Tab 10.1 pill to see how it compares with the previous UI iteration of Firefox Mobile.
Although the new user interface is not finished and will change, not yet ready for regular end users, is a promising start and provides a pleasant visual experience with Android on the tablet. The application has a simple form: the navigation bar at the top of the screen and side panel on the left side, showing thumbnails of each open tab. The content of Web pages load in the center of the screen.
The top navigation bar there are buttons on the front and rear, a field for entering a URL, stop / refresh buttons, buttons, tabs and menus. By placing the focus on the URL input field, the browser displays a menu for selecting the final pages, bookmarks, history items, or other computer chips. You can switch between these categories with finger-friendly blocks that appear in the menu on the left.
When you start typing, the menu changes to provide for the style AwesomeBar completion. This is a very effective and convenient to use the touch screen. Running the AwesomeBar was very well during my test, but do not know how you would go to the most densely populated in the database (I just started using Firefox on the machine, so I'm sailing with the profile of the charges) .
The tab bar to the left of the screen is essentially a function of the equivalent functionality in previous iterations of Firefox Mobile. Sketches of all inactive tabs disappeared, so it is easy to see which tab is active at a glance. There are "X" icon on each tab, you can use to close it.
When the tab is closed, it had fallen to the bottom of the screen and a collection of icons of the restaurants where you can enter again. Only for the last full record is displayed in the bottom of the slot closed tabs do not add up. This means that if you close the two tabs in a row, you will be able to reconstruct the past.
In the bottom of the tab bar is a button you can click to open a new tab. URL address field in the center input automatically when creating a new tab, activate the menu. This seems a good approach, and is better than a new tab page traditional office.
My biggest disappointment with the current implementation, the user interface is that the tab bar is always fixed in place and can not be hid. In contrast to the standard Firefox interface mobile, the new interface does not allow the tablet next to the tab to drag off the screen. This is a question that can be considered as a new interface matures.
In addition to sports home user interface, every night I tested is based also offers some features integration with the platform. When you bookmark a page, click the star, the browser allows you to add a link to the current page to the Android home screen.
The browser is also associated with the content sharing system Android. When you select a page from the Actions menu, you will exchange standard Android, allowing you to select a third party application you want to complete the action. I tested this feature with several applications and found that worked mostly as expected. He was able to pass the URL into Evernote, a standard mail client, and Read It Later.
Application performance is generally good. Kinetic scrolling on the main content area is soft, but the physics of movement does not seem quite the same as the native Android. Capture hint works, but it seems to be automatic welding of the text. The image quality is generally good, but the distance between letters in the text a little and does not seem very consistent. All features of the browser is the same as what users expect from a mobile Firefox. He supports the amendments and communicates with the Mozilla Firefox synchronization function.
Obviously, there is still room for improvement, but the nightly build I've tried a lot better than I expected, especially considering the fact that it represents the first cut in the new user interface. It seems that Firefox Mobile is coming to the third competitive advantage possible to navigate the Android pill.
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