Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (505 mails)

[Rob OpenSuSE <rob.opensuse.linux@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2 July 2011 20:52, Wolfgang Rosenauer <wolfgang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Am 02.07.2011 21:27, schrieb Cristian Rodríguez:
> > El 02/07/11 15:00, Wolfgang Rosenauer escribió:
> > > Am 02.07.2011 20:40, schrieb Cristian Rodríguez:
> > > > > It's basically technically the same as it's beta7 which had no source
> > > > > changes to the final version.
> > > > > The difference is that it uses the beta channel (shipping the feedback
> > > > > addon) and is built from another HG tree.
> > > >
> > > > I like the interface that is used in windows 7 ..why is it that there
> > > > are multiple GUIs for the same program ?
> > >
> > > I guess it's meant to integrate into the target platform as much as
> > > possible.
> > > Not sure what difference you mean exactly though?
> >
> > All of it
> >
> > http://www.blognotes.in/firefox-4-final-ui-in-windows-7-screenshots/
> >
> > It is totally different from the linux version which looks like
> >
> > http://www.tuxarena.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/firefox4beta7.png
>
> The "Firefox Button" can be enabled on Linux as well by disabling the menu
> bar. It's different though as there is no way to move the UI into the window
> decoration bar with Gtk2.

I did that already and actually I prefer that it is a little different
(under KDE) to Win 7 or I could get quite confused about which system
I'm on; with sync enabled and similar add on set & user config, I have
to look very closely at FF5 (& 4.0.1) to see which OS I'm running on.

I note to how Ars Technica sees the advantages of delivering things
like "Do Not Track" early, as well as bug fixes & other new features
rapidly to the end users -
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/06/firefox-5-released-arrives-only-three-months-after-firefox-4.ars

"Another noticeable change is that the checkbox for toggling the Do
Not Track (DNT) header has been moved to the Privacy tab of the
browser's preference dialog. Mozilla introduced the option for
enabling the DNT header in Firefox 4 even though the header was
recognized by virtually no advertisers at the time. That proved to be
a sound move and has helped accelerate adoption among advertisers and
other browser vendors.

Now that the header is starting to gain industry acceptance, Mozilla
is making Firefox's DNT checkbox more discoverable by moving it from
the Advanced tab of the preferences dialog to the Privacy tab. The DNT
option has also been added to the Android version of Firefox, which
was released concurrently with the new desktop version.

Aside from these minor user interface changes and new features,
Firefox 5 brings a number of bugfixes and performance improvements
that will improve the browsing experience.

Although the changes in Firefox 5 don't seem like much, they
illustrate some of the advantages of a shorter development cycle.
Mozilla will be able to roll out support for emerging Web standards at
a faster pace, making it easier for Web developers to take advantage
of the latest and greatest capabilities that the Web has to offer. It
will also shorten the time window for rolling out optimizations and
other similar enhancements that directly benefit regular end users.

One downside of the shorter development cycles is that third-party
developers have a lot less time to update their Firefox add-ons for
compatibility. We tested a bunch of popular add-ons with version 5 and
didn't haven much trouble.

Mozilla is already hard at work on Firefox 6, the next update on the
roadmap. The new version is expected to bring back WebSockets and add
support for Server-Sent Events and the HTML progress element. We are
really hoping to see full multiprocess browsing in Firefox 7 later
this year, but it's not clear yet if that will happen."

Now could something like "Do Not Track" Header gain momentum, if it
was just a paper proposal with a provisional implementation in a buggy
alpha release, not due for general usage till the next year?

Rob
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