Mozilla denies it will 'ribbonize' Firefox | Linux Today

Mozilla denies it will ‘ribbonize’ Firefox

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 30, 2009

“”There’s a key difference between what we would like to do and
a ‘ribbon,'” said Alex Faaborg, from the Mozilla interface design
team. “Firefox will have a normal toolbar with two ‘menu’ tabs. We
don’t have thousands of commands like Microsoft Word, we have tens
of commands.

“”New Windows Vista and Windows 7 applications are moving away
from a menu bar,” added Mike Beltzner, the director of Firefox.
“We’re taking a look at how other apps are doing this, and we’ll
make use of menu buttons.””


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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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