On 5/10/2014 10:49 AM, Robert wrote:
I've recently "upgraded" to FireFox v29, and I do not like the new
"dumbed-down" user interface.
I've looked at the screenshots of SeaMonkey and they look like FireFox used
to look.
Before I go through the motions of downloading, installing, and configuring
SeaMonkey are my primary browser I have one question:
Will FireFox 29's new look will find its way into SeaMonkey, or will
SeaMonkey continue to allow its users to customize the UI?
It is currently planned to continue the security/stability updates
without any drastic UI changes to SeaMonkey.
A few caveats to let you know about if you are considering switching
from Firefox.
* We have no paid employees, so any and *all* bugs you encounter with
SeaMonkey are fixed entirely on our free time.
* Due to said no paid employees we have a hard time adding features,
even desired features in a timely manner.
* We don't have any official QA process tied to a set of conformance
tests/etc. So there is more likely to be impactful bugs in a given
release of SeaMonkey than Firefox, and might even be harder for them to
bubble up to our attention due to the smaller userbase.
That said, we'd be GLAD to have you join our userbase.
I should also note that I don't currently work on SeaMonkey UX (nor do I
expect to anytime soon), though as a product driver of SeaMonkey I do
see a LOT of promise and good in Firefox's new design with Australis,
and Tabs-On-Top, etc. - I do however also see value in that users don't
want as drastic of a change. I even see more value in the current
Firefox UI when it comes to SeaMonkey over Firefox.
So I *would* support incremental changes to make seamonkey be closer to
the Australis look and feel. Again thats probably a large chunk of work
that I'm not personally doing, so I wouldn't worry just based on my
personal support for said changes.
~Justin Wood (Callek)
SeaMonkey Council Member
SeaMonkey Release Engineer
Mozilla Corporation Release Engineer
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