User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; sk; rv:2.0b2pre) Gecko/20100712 Minefield/4.0b2pre Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; sk; rv:2.0b2pre) Gecko/20100712 Minefield/4.0b2pre Required changes: 1. Move Star Button to the left and replace favicon by it. 2. Make drop arrow bigger and "empty". 3. Attach combined Stop/Go/Refresh button to the Location Bar. 4. Show SSL protected sites in colorful rectangle: 4.1. If site's name and it's SSL certificate are the same, show only one of them in rectangle. 4.2. If site's name and it's SSL certificate are different, show site's name separately in bold text next to SSL certificate. 4.3. OS-specific styling: 4.3.1. Vista/7/Mac: Green rectangle with white text for SSL and green text for site's name. 4.3.2. XP: Blue rectangle with white text for SSL and blue text for site's name. 4.3.3. Linux: White rectangle with black text for SSL and black text for site's name. 5. Display Progress line inside bar at the bottom when page on active tab is loading. See attached mockups. Note: Point 4 is a my guess according to availible mockups. Someone from UX team should clarify this. Reproducible: Always

This isn't a matter of styling, it's a matter of functionality. There's all sorts of crazy stuff going into the location bar. Targeted links, the identity button, doorhangers...

If changing shapes, colors and texts isn't a matter of styling, then please, tell me: matter of what it is exactly? And of course there will under the hood changes, but those changes has very little to do with visual changes. We already have Star Button, Identity Button and drop arrow. Perhaps "Unable to connect" and "Dangerous site" will require a little more then visual styling, but the rest "technical" things are in separate bugs. If neccesary, this bug can be splitted even further. I leave that to others.

To the UX people: favicons will be removed from the locationbar, correct? The mockups so far only show the site identity button and not the full url.

correct, it's redundant and allows sites to spoof security cues (like a lock icon). Also with a saturated identity block, it's just hard to draw some favicons without adding a weird glow so that you can see them.

breaking this apart into separate bugs: stop/go/reload bug: 544816 progress bars bug: 578028 site identity block (remove favicon, down arrow, texture): bug 587901 no redudandancy between the site identity block and URL: 588270 yellow identity block for errors: bug 588274 red identity block for malware: bug 588272

These screenshots linked in the main bug report item here include both 'style' issues, and functionality ones. And major ones at that, given that the amount of spare screen real-estate available for location bar is about zero on a great many systems, and it is used by users very frequently in order to accomplish taks central to their browsing experience. 1. What is the rationale for the drop-down list capability on domain name? where was the need for this established? 2. What is the rationale for the omission of the protocol component of the URI? where was the need for this established? 3. What is the rationale for the omission of the entire URI string component of the URI in the Firefox Plugins example? where was the need for this established? 4. 'DANGER!!!' takes up much too much space, and becomes completely ignorable and trite once the number of false-positives has exceeded ONE, which is certain to occur pretty much immediately in the case of many ordinary users, since Firefox so far has no mind-reading function to determine the user's own judgement of what is DANGEROUS and whether they wish to encounter it.

This tracking bug is no longer useful (I'm not sure that it ever was).