Re: FF 5. 0 and user interface

On 8/20/2011 6:37 AM, Sailfish wrote:
> My bloviated meandering follows what Ron Hunter graced us with on
> 8/20/2011 3:37 AM:
>> On 8/20/2011 3:42 AM, Asa Dotzler wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Ron Hunter wrote:
>
> [snip /]
>
>>>> third:
>>>> What's that orange thing at the top?
>>>
>>> One click on it should reveal to most users that it is where the items
>>> they used to find in the menubar now live. Do you think that having
>>> clicked it a user will not make that connection?
>>>
>>
>> And how are they to know to click it? My wife didn't when she saw it.
>> Assuming something...
>>
> To be fair, once one updates and restarts they are presented with this
> page (if recollection serves me right) which goes into significant
> detail in explaining the new features, including the Firefox button:
> http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/features/
>
> Now admittedly, many users will simply close the page and get on with
> playing Farmville or watching Netflix or whatever but Mozilla did put in
> a lot of effort to ensure that the information was there immediately
> after the update.
>
> Clearly, the benefit is a less cluttered top end combined with the added
> vertical space for content so there's a rational reason to have that be
> the default display after restart; otherwise, the user may never know
> about it.
>
> [snip /]
>
Yes, the page appears, and I would venture that not 1 person in 100 
reads it.  It looks like advertising to me, and that's a case of 
preaching to the choir, given that I just updated.  Some real 
information on the first screen would be good.
I tried, I really did, to use the Firefox button, but finding that I had 
to turn on the menubar 10 times a session to get to function *I* needed 
caused me to just turn it on, permanently.  IF the Firefox button kept 
track of what the user did with menu items on the menubar when 
requested, and after a couple of uses added them to the Firefox menu 
choices (User commands?), then I could use it.  My response was to move 
all my navigation functions to the menubar, and turn off the navigation 
toolbar.  Space saved, and menus available.  Now THAT'S why I love Firefox!