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 /]
>
Have you LOOKED at that page?  Check out the FF7 beta offering.  NO 
INFORMATION.  Just a single screen graphic 'ad'.  OK, 7 is beta, and I 
don't want to go back to 6 to see what that one is, or maybe I will...

OK, V6 has some links at the bottom, where they have to be searched for. 
  Testpilot suggestion.  See how many users click any of those links.