Mozilla has been brainstorming about the next major version of Firefox after version 3.7, which is set to be released sometime early next year. One particular change is really nice:
Instead of separate buttons for each of these functions, they’re all integrated into one button on the right hand side of the address bar. It also changes colors based on your actions. So if you’re typing, it will be a green “Go” button, but if the page is currently loading, a red “Stop” button will take its place. Not a bad way to save space, if we do say so ourselves.
Also, the internal discussion they’re having about the implementation of “Chrome-Like Tabs” is encouraging—instead of just follwing the current trend in browsers, they’re actually getting down to what works better. I agree with Ben Parr at Mashable; the preference for the tabs should be user-configurable. Overall, the designs look really good. If only they could get that kind of quality from their Mac team.