While the OS visual integration is the warm welcomed feature in Firefox 3, many people agree that the new default theme sucks somehow. I wrote about the ugliness of Keyhole button once. It can be fixed easily but the Firefox Mac theme (Proto) is still not polished as I expect.

The search of best Firefox 3 theme has begun. Vista users have better chance for beauty Vista Glass. For Mac, the best I can find is Aronnax’s state-of-the-art GrApple theme. (I prefer GrApple Yummy Blue)

Anyway, GrApple has somethings I don’t like. I get used to Firefox closed-tab button on the right, not Safari’s left side that GrApple Yummy tries to mimic. At first, I thought this can be fixed easily via userChrome.css but after some investigation, it was hard-coded in binding.xml file. Then I have no choice but release a new theme on my own.

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Just in case that you’re using Firefox 3, having nothing to do and want to participate on my usability test (actually, it’s homework but I want to try with a real world application). You can fill the forms below. Not too many questions and should take around 10-15 minutes.

• Part 1 - Participants detail
• Part 2 - Features
• Part 3 - Satisfaction

The result will be published on this web site in early June 2008. Thanks anyone who participates.

P.S. This is my first time using Google Docs for form survey. Thanks Arthuran for this info.

If you’re using Firefox, just right click on any links nearby and you should see ‘Send Link…’ in the context menu. Clicking this item will open default email client composition window with this URL, type your friend’s address and the link will be ready to be sent. Now you know what I’m gonna talk about.

It’s one of features I’ve never used since my first browsing experience with good old Netscape 3.0 Gold. It’s also one of my most-hatred features because I always misclick it and end up with waiting Thunderbird to start.

Many people think the same. There is a bug filed in Bugzilla since 2004 but seems that it’s not gonna happen in near future. The best way to get rid of these unused menu items is probably via Menu Editor extension. Anyway, this blog is not about feature rant.

While I’ve never used ‘Send Link…’ context menu, there are numerous times I send links to someone else through other channels. The most common way is copy it (by ‘Copy Link Location’) and paste into IM chat window. It’s very simple process but not the best efficient way. Endless copy & paste wastes my time, energy and effort.

Can we fix this?

People (seem not to) don’t use email anymore. And the incarnation of 2.0 social things brings us a lot of new ways to share and communicate. Beside of IM, I also post some links to Delicious (using bookmarklet), Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook Shared Items. Is there any creative way to share a link from your browser?

An extension to paste link directly to active IM window (or tab) might be useful but how about the other social networking sites? Is there one solution to fit them all?

Writing this blog reminds me the vision of Thunderbird from Mozilla Messaging:

Thunderbird can become a powerful yet enjoyable tool to help individuals manage their online interactions, whether that’s email, instant messaging, social networking messages, or other types of message.

Isn’t this fit for this situation?

Vista Glass for Firefox

Very elegant. It makes me envy Vista users. (another screenshot)

From MozillaZine forum.