Mozilla Brings Firefox to Android 3.0 Tablets: Sneak Peek

An upcoming translation of Firefox Mobile is being designed to have a more native flavor on Android 3.0 tablets, while maintaining Firefox's classifiable look and flavour much as the browser's orotund back button. Giving Firefox users a snarf peek, Mozilla mobile device user experience designer Ian Barlow freshly posted some mock-ups for the new Firefox adaptation on his blog. Barlow says Mozilla's designers are hard at crop to "make Firefox awesome along tablets" aside maintaining the work done connected Firefox Mobile targeted for Humanoid phones while taking advantage of a lozenge's bigger screen real estate.

Firefox Roving 6 discharged in mid-August already has a few tablet-specific improvements in IT such atomic number 3 larger buttons and font sizes, but Mozilla is looking to create a more dispatch pill-friendly browser.

Here's a visor at whatever of the changes to expect in Firefox for Honeycomb tablets:

Honeycomb Theme

Barlow says the overall theme will be very Honeycomb-similar lottery connected what Barlow calls Humanoid 3.0's "minimalist design language." Compare, for representative, Barlow's mock-up above with Honeycomb's stock contacts app. In both cases, the user interface elements such as navigation buttons and menu icons are thin and colorless so as not to draw away attention from the smug in the main wake pane.

Awesomebar

Firefox wouldn't equal Firefox without the Awesomebar introduced in Firefox 3.0. Firefox Mobile for Android tablets puts the Awesomebar's tabbed menu on the left hand lateral for quick access to your bookmarks, browsing history and Firefox Sync content.

Tabs To The Left And Above

Firefox on tablets will make up acquiring cardinal slipway to view tabs. In landscape mode, the tabs will turn up in a persistent bar on the left bridge player side of the screen. In portrait mode, the tabs will be stored in a drop menu at the big top of sieve.

That's all Barlow had to share for now. If you'd like to see to a greater extent of what Mozilla has in store for Android tablets you can tab out Barlow's Flickr page with tablet mock-ups or this early study of Firefox Changeful connected Honeycomb tablets. Just keep in mind these are completely early design ideas and interface design concepts are subject to change.

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