Latest Firefox 3.7 pre-alpha adds built-in Aero glass support

[Night Owl]

Ages ago, Mozilla gave us all a sneak peek at what the updated default theme might look like in Firefox 3.7. In January, the UI elements finally made their first appearance. Now, it looks like Aero glass support has been switched on for users running Windows 7 and Vista.

You can see the change from 3.7 Alpha 2 (top) to 3.7a4pre (bottom). As you can see, it's no longer just the title bar and window border -- Firefox's main, navigation, and bookmarks menus are now all glassed-out.

From what we've seen in our comments previously, not all of you are going to be excited about all-over transparency. While I haven't found an about:config value yet to disable the glass effect, I don't doubt that one exists (or will be added before 3.7 is complete).

Despite earlier rumors, a Firefox 3.7 release is still part of Mozilla's plans -- we ought to see it sometime in May or June of this year.

Want to take the latest nightly build of Firefox 3.7 for a spin? Download it from Mozilla and share your thoughts in the comments!

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[DKT27]

Hmm. Interesting. :think:

So bad that 3.7 wont be released as final if I'm not wrong. :unsure:

[Night Owl]

Mike Beltzner, Mozilla's director of Firefox, said in his blog:

The rumours of Firefox 3.7’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. Nobody’s planning on “dumping” features or the hard work of our passionate and tireless community.

[Atasas]

Hey ho! game in between twoagain: FF and opera!

but hey! configure Opera properly(inc Z1-Glas theme)... hmammm...no real contest! just love to use it! (O)

[Bizarre™]

@DKT27:

Firefox 3.7 won't even be released.

Mozilla plans for it to be 4.0 ^_^

[DKT27]

I want v4 fast now after I have Windows 7. :tooth:

@Biz: If you can get 3-4GB RAM total, you wont have any problems running Windows 7. My cousin tested and told me that it's more faster than XP. :o

[Bizarre™]

@DKT27:

I'm not planning on an upgrade yet. I don't have the time ^_^

[DKT27]

You sure will need a lot to do. :)

[SacredCultivator]

Hmm not sure if just me, but it's a nice touch, although I noticed that if I have multiple tabs oopen (More than 1 row worth), the whole CENTER screen becomes mutilated and unreadable, but if I quit the tabs till 1 row is left everything is fine.

[Bizarre™]

@SacredCultivator:

Since you're using nightly builds of FF, did Mozilla fix the screen corruption on 3.7?

[DreamHaters]

I like the 3.7 look.

Wont mind if 4.0 will look like this.

4.0 out end of this year?

[SacredCultivator]

@Bizarre: Hmm which screen corruption? =X

[oZ.]

I like the 3.7 look.

Wont mind if 4.0 will look like this.

4.0 out end of this year?

end of this year or early January 2011, just like what Mozilla did to 3.6 they delay it from Nov. to Jan. =\

[donizme]

As soon as the beta is released I'm gona get this! It looks stunning, much better than Chrome IMO. ^_^