Firefox 4.0: Browser Tabs on Top or Bottom?

When in doubt take both.
Make it up to end-user to choose where to have tab. Problem solved.

Perhaps I want mine on the left.

I want to put it in the left or in the right side!
With the displays that become wider and wider, I'll love to have the tabs steal some horizontal space instead of the rare vertical space.

Looks like they've made up their minds.

That's the brilliant thing about Firefox is personal choice for the end user.

Sir's, i salute you!

I salute firefox chick....why i always read firefox news

Note the caption - "on top or on bottom".

I see what they did there.

Keep it where it is, I am still suffering with Chrome odd tab bar position!

lol @ the "on top or bottom" tag on the firefox chick pic. Well, i guess i can have my face on top and aherm...

Make it up to end-user +1

Get rid of the tab feature completely

I want to put my tabs on an excel sheet on another computer, and remote to it in order to access/switch them.

how about a useful comment and not just trolling.

and +1000 for make it the user's choice

user choice. i love top, but i can see others liking bottom.

Firefox FTW

1:04-1:15 "But before we go on to the specific reasons I have to make it really, absolutely, perfectly, completely clear that what we're debating is the DEFAULT preference. As always - users have complete control over customizing Firefox, so it's exactly the way they like (...)"

Great video. The interface looks great. Is there really anymore debate about default settings? The last recap in the video gives 4 pros vs. 1 con. The one con is "mouse distance." Hahahaha. How lazy can you get?

I keep my parents on Firefox because of stability and security. I think my parent's will understand the concept of tabbing once this is the default layout for tabs.

I switched over to Google Chrome a few months ago simply because I drank their Koolaid. That and I love the integration with their Google products ie Docs, Calendar, Gmail, etc... Maybe Firefox 4.0 will win me back.

Either way, looking forward to the new version of Firefox. I was once swayed by Chrome but can't stand its disappointing way of blocking ads (of course, that's what Google's business is).

Personally, although I can see some positive features, I'd be pissed off not to be able to use the search toolbar as a global one. Actually, most of the times I use it it's not to search within the opened tab, but to open a new tab with the search.
If they put that toolbar within the tabs it's going to be counter-intuitive (assuming they still give me the opportunity to open a new tab with ALT+ENTER)

Great caption for the Firefox babe.

why not on the side like tree style tabs (as I type this in firefox 4)

valid points, but I'll always prefer them to be on the bottom. If they want to improve efficiency, they need to get rid of the largely-empty caption/title bar so that the FF navigation interface and such takes up less vertical screen space. Sure, there are add-ons that do this for you, but it should be the default, or at least a built in option.

Alt-enter still works in Minefield (aka prerelease firefox) 4.0b2pre (I'm running a nightly build right now).

i prefer it on the top. But user should ultimately decide.

i want tabs where i use them the most.. in bars hehehe

This just In. Opera 10.5x DOES let you move your tabs to the left or right. And when you do, you get the thumbnail preview images too. Of course, I guess Opera isn't cool enough for most people these days. I'll wait a few months until the next FireFox comes out, then people talk about how cool it is that FireFox lets you move your tabs to the left or right.

HOW ABOUT BOTH!

allow an option where to put it, like a toolbar

How about moving it to the bottom-bottom with the status bar???

That would become more instinctual for a windows user since the windows toolbar has all your programs laid out in tabs down there anyway.

i'd like to keep mine right where they are, thank you.

Tree Style Tab add-on for Firefox lets you put your tabs to the side and lets your tabs branch into parent and daughter tabs that can easily be manipulated. You can have tonnes of tabs open and it will minimize clutter and maximize organization. Opera may have made a lot of innovations that other browsers have copied, but I don't care about who did what first, Firefox does things better in my opinion so that's what I use.

I like that they're giving us the option for both locations, but I feel they should keep it where it is right now. However, they seem pretty convinced that on-top is the way to go, so whatever they end up choosing is fine with me.

Actually, Opera lets you put your tab bar on the very bottom of the screen as well. I've kept it there for years. In fact, you can even put the address bar 'in' the tab bar if you want. It's possible to put all tabs, buttons and fields in a single bar, on any side of the screen. You just right click a bar, select customize, appearance, and then drag and drop practically any interface element anywhere you want. Opera has had this functionality for years, and still has the most configurable interface of all the browsers by far.