The venerable dialog box, that we see in firefox faces extinctinction. As mozilla designer Stephen Horlander has published Firefox interface mock-ups that illustrate how the browser could look with some options set through a preferences tab rather than through a preferences dialog box.
The designs are experimental, but some of the work is proceeding already. For example, Firefox’s new interface for managing add-ons uses this “in-content” interface, and Firefox’s about:config controls have appeared in a browser tab for years.
Firefox’s user interface could be shedding some of its dialog boxes. This mock-up shows some ideas.The moc-up looked pretty much like Google Chrome. Actually if we see this from a distance any one can get conned to think that its chrome. As we see in chrome only the tabs and the windows and no dialog box.Moving away from dialog boxes is by no means universal, but it is common. Dialog boxes can be confusing, sometimes blocking access to the rest of the software until they’re closed and sometimes staying open while hidden behind other windows. Some software, such as Photoshop, is moving toward “non-modal” controls that often live alongside content in the manner of a toolbar.
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