Re: FF 5. 0 and user interface

My bloviated meandering follows what Ron Hunter graced us with on 
8/20/2011 8:48 AM:
> 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...
> 
Yes, of course I looked at the page, using Fx6.0. Right there in the 
first section is a brief description titled, "Firefox Button (Windows 
and Linux)".

> 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.
> 
I don't know anything about Testpilot, sorry.

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