Take a look at the tabs from the new Firefox 3 Beta. Not only are the tabs smaller in size than in previous versions (and thus creating a smaller target), they have foolishly added borders around them (which aren’t clickable), making the targets smaller still and far more difficult to hit. The vertical borders between tabs are no big deal, but needlessly adding the border below seems a poor design choice. As crazy as it sounds, we could use those 2 or 3 pixels of height for the tab, because it will make using them much easier.
Since when do tabs peek down from above anyway? I’m all for experimentation, but let’s be reasonable.
is that the case for all the themes of firefox 3 beta? your theme looks more like safari than mine.
It’s basically just their attempt to copy Safari’s tabs. Safari doesn’t have the extra spacing between tabs, but it does have the upside-down tab thing.
It has something to do with the fact that when you change tabs you’re actually changing things that happen *above* the tabs as well as below. Everywhere else in the operating system when you change a tab the only thing that changes is *below* the tab.
Regardless I think they’re spending too much time trying to copy Safari and not enough time making their own look and their own decisions.
The tab design is meant to mimic Safari. (I’m not saying that’s good or bad.) One of the goals of Firefox 3 is to look and behave more like the native applications on your OS.
See “Improved look and feel” here:
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Firefox_3_for_developers
upside down tabs??? that’s not right!!!