The RSS icon, sits at just 7.3% usage, just below the site identity button (click the favicon), and above the custom new tab button that one can drag and drop onto the toolbar.įrom this data, and the general design direction of Firefox 4, Mozilla opted to remove the RSS icon from the location bar, and move it to a menu item in the bookmarks menu (which would get its own button on the toolbar), and to an optional toolbar button users could drag back into place.ĭespite that having been back in July, and there being plenty of heated discussion on the bug, it wasn’t until around the third of this new year that a big stink kicked up about this decision. Of this, some interesting statistics arise, such as the horizontal scroll arrows almost never being used, yet the vertical scroll arrows being used relatively common. The results of this data were presented as a visual heat-map, showing what areas of the Firefox UI were most, and least, used. The story begins on the Mozilla Blog of Metrics, where using TestPilot, Mozilla’s data-collection programme, Mozilla conducted a five day test of 10’000 users’ interactions with the various toolbar buttons and widgets in the Firefox user interface. When Mozilla can say they are open to input, but refuse to change in the face of near universal disagreement, we all lose, not just me. This has been going on for a couple of weeks now, and I had avoided writing about it on OSNews since the recent furore is often cited to have begun around a personal blog post I wrote, but now things have come to an impasse: “No matter how loudly you shout, what you see in the beta with regard to the feed auto-discovery button is what will ship in Firefox 4”. A mini-tempest has been raging across the web with anger at Mozilla for removing the RSS icon from the Firefox 4 toolbar by default (and moving it to the bookmarks menu).
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