(Re)Designing Firefox

I really hope Mozilla take a look at bookmarks in the next major release of Firefox. It needs a complete overhaul. Trying to navigate lots of bookmarks through a menu-based system is clunky and unusable.

I see that the Firefox team are moving Preferences into the browser as a web page. This makes even more sense for Bookmarks. Laid out on a web page, you can easily order, reorder, filter, search, expand, collapse, switch to different views. Why not let users create and share "themes" that style their bookmark pages?

Plus, there are so many other clever things Firefox could do with bookmarks. For example, tell me which bookmarks I've never visited, which are my most frequently visited ones etc. Let me bookmark images (like Pinterest). But please keep the option to store everything locally and keep any stats about my bookmark behaviour local to my machine. Give me the choice of whether I want to share anything or nothing. We don't all want to save to the cloud and we don't all want to be tracked either.

To be honest, the boxy, clunky feeling UI is what kept me from using FireFox. The new UI, coupled with a couple misteps by Chrome, got me to switch back to a Mozilla browser for the first time since Chrome was released.