Mozilla Plans to "Ribbonize" Firefox

[JRViejo]

-{ Quote: "Mozilla plans to "ribbonize" Firefox for Windows Vista and Windows 7 to reduce clutter and free up space for the browser display, according to company planning documents.

"Starting with Vista, and continuing with Windows 7, the menu bar is going away," said Mozilla in its published plans (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Sprints/Windows_Theme_Revamp/Direction_and_Feedback) for revamping the Firefox user interface. "[It will] be replaced with things like the Windows Explorer contextual strip, or the Office Ribbon, [which is] now in Paint and WordPad, too."" }-
Computerworld Article (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9138395/Mozilla_plans_to_ribbonize_Firefox)

[noons]

I dont know if I would call it ribbon style.. Check out the screenshots doesn't look too bad, kind of a rip off of chrome though... I do like the more compact approach though.

[funkydude]

Awesome news for us Vista GUI fans. ;D

[ronjor]

-{ Quote: "Mozilla denies it will 'ribbonize' Firefox

By Gregg Keizer
September 29, 2009 12:43 PM ET

Computerworld - Mozilla today denied that it will "ribbonize" upcoming Windows versions of Firefox, saying that its plans to eliminate the traditional menu bar will result in something much less complicated than Microsoft's often-derided user interface.

"There's a key difference between what we would like to do and a 'ribbon,'" said Alex Faaborg, from the Mozilla interface design team. "Firefox will have a normal toolbar with two 'menu' tabs. We don't have thousands of commands like Microsoft Word, we have tens of commands."" }-Article (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9138653/Mozilla_denies_it_will_ribbonize_Firefox)