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[brewin]

images/news/firefox.jpgWhat do you get when you cross a Firefox with a chameleon?

An open-source Web browser whose user interface is adapted to the look of the operating system it's running on. One change planned for the upcoming Firefox version 3, code-named Gran Paradiso, is this more native appearance.

"The Web browser is an incredibly central piece of the user's operating system, and we don't want the user's initial reaction to be that they have modified their computer to add some type of strange, foreign application," said Mozilla interface designer Alex Faaborg in a blog posting last week. "Mozilla's user experience team literally wants to do a better job of visually integrating with Windows than IE, and a better job of visually integrating with OS X than Safari. I don't know if we will be able to pull that off, but that's the goal."

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[m.oreilly]

neat. i think this will make mozilla more "attractive" to the majority of ie users unsure of anything but their favorite browser.

[hog]

m.oreilly, on Oct 18 2007, 07:27 PM, said:

neat. i think this will make mozilla more "attractive" to the majority of ie users unsure of anything but their favorite browser.

Exactly, it will make people like my mother accept to use it cause it won't look "strange" or "different" anymore and that's a good thing.