Mozilla is currently taking suggestions for features to include in Firefox 3 (and all future versions) in a public wiki. It’s already packed with suggestions, some really good, and some not so. There are lots of different categories, from chrome to bookmark management, but one of the big themes running through the categories is a desire for UI improvement. My view of the Firefox UI is that it is very functional, more so than IE6 or IE7, but that it displays little original innovation, unlike other areas of Firefox. An innovation of the scale of the Ribbon in Office 2007 (but certainly not a copy of it) would help take Firefox to the next level.

This wiki is a great example of why Firefox continues to be better than its rivals; the size of the discussion means that there will be some great ideas put forward, and by opening it to everyone it avoids the typical open source problem of ‘designed by developers, for developers’. Yet again, well done Mozilla!

[via Ars Technica]