Firefox 4 UI update brings snazzy, new alert pop-ups

[Night Owl]

Lest you think blogger Long Zheng is all about Microsoft apps, our Australian friend has a keen eye on all kinds of bleeding-edge software. -- including Firefox 4. Today he noticed a change in the Firefox 4 nightly build -- sexier, semi-translucent alert dialogs, complete with a blur effect to obscure the webpage content in the background.

The new alerts fit well with Firefox 4's default Strata theme, and they definitely look nicer than those with the native Windows chrome. The blur effect is also a nice tweak, and it helps ensure your focus goes where it should when an alert box appears -- to the alert.

Download a nightly build of Firefox 4 to see the alerts in action. To test, just visit a page like this one and paste javascript:window.alert("Downloadsquad copypasta for testing shiny new Firefox 4 alerts") in your address bar and hit the enter key.

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[DKT27]

Nice to see that. :D

Firefox 4 surely beats just any browser in looks. ^_^

[Brrownie]

Sexy indeed ...;) Thank you Night O ....:)

[irefay]

Sweet. I also like the behavior that I can click on a bookmarked link and be directed away from the current site. This helps when you visit a site that tries to overload the user with js pop up messages.

[henz]

add a temporary disable all alert pop up on this site ,,

will kick off the annoying scripting...like put so much "alert" in the js,

if u ever get annoy, u will know what i mean :P

[vin3e]

Someones a /b/tard in the FF team :P

No one uses the term copypasta unless your one of them.

[HX1]

Was it just me or did the slide notifications always bog down your system? ( I killed them all i the about:config ) got his in version 3 too.. only difference is bigger icons and transparency..I don't think bulkier looking is going to be better..

[RadioActive]

This is getting old, all these betas and sneak peaks, I mean c'mon! It's not a freakin' operating system for crying out loud! Where the heck is the final release *sighs*