Comments on: Little UX Touches that Go a Long Way

By: Ankush Kumkar

Ankush Kumkar — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 07:41:00 +0000

yes it’s really cool and good thoughts

By: Icon Library » Two clicks less on Firefox

Icon Library » Two clicks less on Firefox — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:49:29 +0000

[...] improvement for granted and didn’t even notice that previous versions didn’t have it. Thanks to Ryan Carson for putting this slight UX touch into [...]

By: Derek Keith

Derek Keith — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:16:44 +0000

Yeah, I too am pretty sure this feature has been in Firefox since version 3. Yet, I do agree, the small things definitely do count.

By: Aaron Bassett

Aaron Bassett — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:02:06 +0000

2 Clicks?

Is it not easier to just hit CMD+J than to click about? Shortcut keys FTW! :)

But yeah it is nice to see this in 3.5, though I would have rather had even more CSS3 support.
Not that 3.5s’ support for CSS3 is bad compared to some browsers (like anything based on Trident) but it is still a bit behind Safari 4.

By: Ryan Carson

Ryan Carson — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:32:58 +0000

Not sure. But that’s not the point – it’s a smart feature :)

By: Rob Mason

Rob Mason — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:28:09 +0000

Hasn’t it always told you what’s downloading and how long?

By: Ryan Carson

Ryan Carson — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:57:35 +0000

Hey Alex - we combined the Carsonified Blog and ThinkVitamin into one blog, which now lives at carsonified.com/blog. You can read more about it on this post.

By: Tor Løvskogen Bollingmo

Tor Løvskogen Bollingmo — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:25:16 +0000

I think Opera does this better without adding extra chrome at the bottom. They show this info as the title of the download tab – which also saves the extra pop-up window.

By: Koral

Koral — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:28:35 +0000

thanks for it & i am totally agreed to you about this !

By: Paul Nathan

Paul Nathan — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:22:52 +0000

Yeah Scott, Firefox roxxx..lol…, I did tried every browser, but no one did satisfied me, the performance and internet experience that firefox do provide is Unique, one of the reason behind this may be its Open source, but i just loved it.

And yes you are true, i m working on many live projects currently such as Video conferencing, and it needs a minute special attention to make our customer happy, you are true buddy, a small attention to our application just add stars to it.

Thankyou for motivating everone

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:04:21 +0000

Um… what happened to think vitamin???

By: seventoes

seventoes — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:05:16 +0000

What theme is that? It’s perdy.

By: Market Timing

Market Timing — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:30:40 +0000

I will always use FireFox now. I started using it about 2 years ago and I will never go back to IE. Although I like chrome as well, it seems to browse a bit faster then FireFox.

By: Nick Lindwall (Coolbox)

Nick Lindwall (Coolbox) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:24:34 +0000

Yep, nice touch, I switched to firefox as my browser of choice only last year and haven’t looked back :)

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:04:43 +0000

FYI, that download status has been around since at least firefox 3 – http://www.screencast.com/users/chrisofspades/folders/Jing/media/d6cf62d6-1808-43b6-b5cd-c63119011f32. but it is certainly a nice touch.

By: Johan Svensson

Johan Svensson — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:52:34 +0000

I used to have an extension that did exactly that. Nice to see that the idea got implemented in the core codebase.

By: Ryan Carson

Ryan Carson — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:26:36 +0000

@Joe – Yes, we’re uploading some fixes soon. Apologies about that.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:23:46 +0000

Are you aware that this blog is currently a bit broken in IE7?

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:35:49 +0000

Firefox rocks… its always going to improve as it goes along as so many developers love it. It just shows even the small details are worth blogging about.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:31:59 +0000

Had a little play on Safari 4 recently, and this was one of the make-or-break things that made me switch back to Firefox. Weird little things that you don’t really notice make up a large proportion of the usability of a program. The less I have to think about something, the better designed the program.

By: Niki Brown | The Design O'Blog

Niki Brown | The Design O'Blog — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:28:12 +0000

Design is in the details :)

By: Ryan Carson

Ryan Carson — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:25:59 +0000

Thanks – glad you agree :)

By: Jon Rawlins

Jon Rawlins — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:25:11 +0000

Agreed it’s the little touches that make things all seem worthwhile.