Comments on: Firefox 3: Why Tabs Are Upside Down?

By: When innovation goes wrong

When innovation goes wrong — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:27:48 +0000

[...] down tabs concept for years, and it seems to have been an effort to be consistent with the Safari browser [...]

By: Marv

Marv — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:31:29 +0000

http://www.takebacktheweb.org/

Nice theme with tabs attached to the pages

By: Alain

Alain — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:16:30 +0000

I agree totally with you, that’s the main issue for me with Firefox 3, they tried to have the same look as Safari, copying this ugly behaviour. They should have added a new theme and keep the Firefox 2 theme as well.

By: website design

website design — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:12:52 +0000

Erm, what? It’s supposed to be linked to the bookmarks; which they are.

By: Robin Yang

Robin Yang — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:47:34 +0000

Tabs are also upside down in Safari.

Just finished a (unnecessarily?) long post about tabs, Firefox, and Safari here: http://thingsiknow.net/2008/06/firefox-3-and-the-mac-second-e.html . Sort of a response to this post.

By: Charles

Charles — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:48:04 +0000

Yes, this is Mac only, and copies the behavior of Safari.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:21:30 +0000

They have been clear that they’re trying to match existing UI elements on each OS.

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:13:44 +0000

They may be emulating the behavior of Safari. It’s been a while since I’ve used a Mac, but I seem to recall that the tabs were upside-down in Safari too.

By: Uli

Uli — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:33:38 +0000

I guess this is true on MacOSX only. I’ve just downloaded FireFox3 for Windows.
Tabs are attached to pages.

Regards, Uli.