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Firefox tidies up with Office 2007’s Ribbon

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 24, 2009

“Starting with Vista, and continuing with Windows 7, the menu
bar is going away,” notes Mozilla in its plans 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.”

“The change will bring Windows’ Aero Glass effects to the
browser, and also free up space for the actual page window – making
it more suitable for people using netbooks with smaller
screens.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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