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Heh, I really understand that once Ben and Google folks made usability tests, the results said that the very obvious feature from Flock, Camino, Safari and Opera is better.
But take a look at those bugs – suprise. People were asking for that!

I’m not sure if I like Firefox’s version. I think that I’d prefer to be able to close any tab – not only the focused one. On the other hand this could let me close tabs by accident, so maybe close button should be by default disabled for background tabs (with UI option to make it enabled). Hmm???

Another nice thing is that now, when you open a new tab from another, and close it, the focus will go to that “parent” tab, not the first on the left. It’s a really good choice.

I’m a bit suprised that Ben decided to remove a really nice option to create a new tab by double-clicking on tab bar. What’s wrong with that, Ben?

Note: Mozilla never made a “RC” goal. Always, there were UI and L10n changes after RC. We should really stop using “RC” name for it not to confuse users, media and ourselves 😉

Update: Confused… Bug 308396 has a “UE fixes for tabbed browsing for 1.5” title, but in last comment says that it won’t get into 1.5…

It’s only a proposal, but this looks to me like “Ok, we must release more often to stay on a field”. I’m happy with that.
It means that we’ll have Gecko 1.9 branched in Q4 2006 (so we have time to make huge improvements) but Firefox 1.5 and Firefox 2.0 will be released earlier so users can have their cookies.

I’m wondering if Gecko 1.9 will became 2.0… it seems that the differences between 1.8 and 1.9 will be huge.

Last days where we had a big wave, first press articles, blogs and whole IT community was praising Flock, then the reaction was quite fast and people who don’t understand the reasons behind the Flock started blaming it.
Let’s sum up most common issues:

Polish localizations of Firefox 1.5 and Thunderbird 1.5 will be frozen on saturday. I strongly recommend other l10n teams to do the same.

If everything will go well…. humm… For the second time in my life, my hobby, thing that I was working on by nights and weekends, will became my job.

Today, I had a phone call from California…

Wow… this is really sweet. I’m writing it in Flock 0.5.

What is Flock? Flock is a new web browser developed by people from Round Two based on Mozilla Firefox 1.4.

It’s a social browsing experiment which is just an expanding of what we did with Google. Adding functionality of some web services into the browser so the user can use the power of social ideas like del.icio.us, Flickr or Technorati within the browser.

Opera released it’s 9.0 Preview 1 at snapshot.opera.com.

What’s new? A lot.