Looking for a web site with interactive screen shots of browser menus and options windows
This isn't specifically a Firefox question, but I tend to get replies when I post here, as opposed to other boards. :) Note that I am *not* looking for web sites that show how various browsers render a certain page, but only detailed screen shots (preferably with DHTML/interactivity) of the menus and configuration windows in the browsers themselves. For example, if something moved or changed between Firefox 18.0 and Firefox 22.0, I want to be able to see the difference. There used to be one or more sites like this, but I have so far been unable to find any.
Thanks very much.
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First off, you really should update to the latest version, Firefox 22. Firefox 13.0.1 is no longer supported and lacks hundreds of security updates that came in later versions of Firefox.
Second, there are vast differences in Firefox menu's depending upon whether you have Tabs on Top selected and have the Firefox button showing, or are using the default for WinXP Menu Bar, with the full set of Menu's.
There is a video about Tabs On Top here - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/put-tabs-back-on-bottom - but it doesn't show the Menu Bar, it is with the Firefox button only.
As far as a DHTML / interactive display, I haven't seen anything like that anywhere. But to be complete there would need to be two separate displays for Windows alone, one for WinXP (with the Menu Bar) and another for Win Vista, Win7, and Win8. Then of course, the individual user can select the positioning of the Tab-strip and whether the Menu Bar or the Firefox button is being used.
Thanks for the reply. I did a quick web search for "Windows 7 Firefox layout", but the only posts I found (such as http://tjl.co/blog/soapbox/firefox-4-on-windows-7/ ) referred to the GUI "look and feel", which I don't consider relevant. Ditto for the position of the tab strip. The "Firefox Button" would need documented, but I suppose that's not so different from IE's Tools menu on the command bar. I am still incredulous that a web site documenting browser menus and Settings window screen shots doesn't exist, but hopefully somebody knows of one.
FYI, I downgraded to FF 13.0 to avoid a bug in 14.x (which according to the Bugtrack ticket was never documented as fixed), and decided to stay a while in protest to the developers seemingly making major GUI changes every other month (which the page above also suggests). But yes, it's been a year and probably time to upgrade.
Over time, the Knowledge Base on this site has shown the evolution of most standard dialogs on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Currently, each article has a selector that shows a few versions, but "somewhere" you may find the images dating all the way back to Firefox 3.6. Just not sure how to access those no-longer-referenced images...