Today, I was very happy to see that Safari has implemented our design in their upcoming release, as evidenced by (screenshots posted at Dustin Curtis’ site, since removed), here’s the image he posted: Here’s the proposed design that was posted in that article: You can read the entire article, but I’ll give you the short version. I also encouraged other browsers to implement this approach. A while back, I wrote a comprehensive overview on download managers in the major web browsers, and made some recommendations on how to fix them. That’s why it’s so exciting to see our designs being adopted by other browser makers. People are often surprised when we tell them that we’re not trying to “win the marketshare game,” but instead make sure that there is a thriving, diverse ecosystem on the web, with no single dominant player - which at this point, Mozilla has succeeded spectacularly at - compared to a few years ago, when the browser market was stagnant, and one browser dominated the web. Working for Mozilla on designing the next versions of Firefox, one of the great benefits is that we get to do our designs in the open, and improve all web browsers - not just our own product. Safari adopts proposed Firefox download manager design
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