1/29/2003 11:49:00 PM
There are a lot of posts already on MozillaZine. It helps to pay close attention to the developers (especially Asa, who does QA). Also, take a wander through Bugzilla, especially the Phoenix bugs marked as WONTFIX. That will show you what kind of direction they see the browser going. For example, Mozilla had a button to the left of the tabs for New Tab. The Phoenix devs decided to take it out (I haven't a clue why). Requests to put it back in have been denied.
The overall philosophy seems to be to keep the browser lean and fast, only including the most important functionality, and allow other things to be done as extensions. For example, you'll notice there are no buttons for Cut, Copy, or Paste, like there are in Internet Explorer. cdn created an extension called Trivial that will allow you to put those buttons there.
The single most useful extension to me is Tabbed Browsing Extension. It has a lot of whizbangs that I think should be in extensions, like setting per-tab properties, but the idea of single-window mode and all that it entails is important to me. But then there are things like sites that use a seperate popup window for stuff such as navigation. Should that window be a tab or a new window? To me, it means poor site design. I have never run across a site like that, personally.
