348409 - Older OS X 10.2 tab style is used for tab selection for Firefox Preferences-Advanced

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 231313

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[ssj4finalflash]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1b1) Gecko/20060811 BonEcho/2.0b1

The tab style used for General, Network, Update, Encryption in Preferences-Advanced is extremely old and looks very much like the style used in the old mozilla suite on os X 10.2. It looks more out of place with the new visual refresh theme. Recommend considering the adoption of more modern looking tabs similar to those in Camino 1.x. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Preference Menu for Firefox
2. Click on advanced

Actual Results:  
OS X 10.2 style tabs for General, Network Update, Encryption tab selection are displayed. These are similar to the tabs in very old builds of camino or the mozilla suite.

Expected Results:  
OS X 10.4 style tabs for General, Network Update, Encryption tab selection are displayed. These are similar to the tabs in camino's preference panel. 

Camino once used similar style tabs and switched over to more modern looking tabs. With all the effort being placed on the great looking new theme, it may be worth reconsidering redoing this tab implementation.

Comment 1

[ssj4finalflash]

Attachment: Example of newer tab style

This is how the tabs might looks if they were redone in Firefox. This is how camino choose to redo their tabs.

Comment 2

[ssj4finalflash]

Attachment: Old Style Tabs in Bon Echo Nightly

This is the old style currently used.

Comment 3

[ssj4finalflash]

Attachment: Old Tabs in Bon Echo

First attachment was incorrect.

Comment 4

[Uri Bernstein]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 231313 ***