Firefox 3.0’s new default Mac theme showed up today in the current trunk nightly (Minefield). The theme is very similar to Safari’s:

UPDATE: It appears that the first Firefox 3.0 Beta 3 release candidate has been cut. The distribution includes the official Firefox™ branding instead of the Minefield branding.

Firefox 3.0 Default Theme (2008-01-28)

Most dialogs and other windows (e.g., Places and History) also have refined UI elements.

I've noticed a few issues in the short amount of time I've had to play with it (this is completely expected for a nightly build). The toolbar buttons freak out every once in a while and stack up on each other. The browser also looks a little funny when you have the bookmarks toolbar turned off – the tab colors don’t go smoothly into the address bar.

The theme has been available as an add-on since the second beta but this should make it official.

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Discuss

  1. still rounded buttons, eh…

    — noel on Saturday, February 02, 2008 at 06:45 PM #

  2. That toolbar looks pretty ghetto. Why is the titlebar not part of it?

    — guy dude on Saturday, February 02, 2008 at 08:26 PM #

  3. What’s the point of copying Safari’s bottom hanging tabs? Why not do the logical thing and put the tabs on top, above the toolbar/addressbar?

    — why on Saturday, February 02, 2008 at 10:05 PM #

  4. I am liking it. Keep up the good work. This is a nightly after all right?

    — JAson on Monday, February 04, 2008 at 08:12 PM #

  5. PLEASE: unite the stop and reload button into one. why keep them separate? there is pretty much zero advantage of having them separate.

    — stop/reload should be one button on Monday, February 04, 2008 at 08:40 PM #

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