Firefox UI/UX History
I&#x27;ve always found the UI after IE6 &#x2F; FF2 to look &quot;off&quot;, and that&#x27;s likely because they started using non-native controls, drawing their own instead of relying on the platform UI.<p><i>Firefox’s Redesigned Preferences Feel More like the Web</i><p>That expresses exactly what&#x27;s wrong --- the native UI controls are predictable and accessible and styled with the rest of the OS, and as the cascade of dialogs above it (I&#x27;m not sure how that&#x27;s even possible --- getting to &quot;Offline Data&quot; From &quot;Exceptions - Saved Passwords&quot;?) shows, you can actually see that you&#x27;re controlling the browser and not merely a page inside it (related article: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30697329" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30697329</a>).<p><i>Another important change is the introduction of a skeleton screen to make the start feel fast</i><p>I&#x27;ve never heard that term before, but whenever I see things like that, I&#x27;m reminded of fancy progress bars and such --- the real problem is that you need one in the first place, and instead of fixing the underlying problem of why it&#x27;s taking so long, you try to hide it...