Mozilla is busy developing the new mobile version of the Firefox browser. Doug Turner, Firefox mobile product manager, has just released another idea for the user interface for the new mobile FF, on his blog. Basically, the browser would have a hidden UI layer that would come up when a user touches one of the icons that translucently sits on the bottom of the screen. The whole idea is that the user would have the whole screen available for viewing the internet page, and use the UI extension only on demand. Here are two pictures which represent what the new mobile FF UI could look like:

  

Pretty good idea, although I am hoping the mobile FF will not inherit blocking glitches of its big brothers (open a few tabs and run a couple of AJAX intensive sites, and that’s it). The Mozilla Wiki already has an entry for the new mobile touchscreen browser interface from a while ago, although quite different than the one just presented.

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