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[David Siegel <david.siegel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In response to a brooding religious war among contributors over tab
positions in Firefox, Firefox designer Alex Faaborg posts arguments
supporting and challenging the decision to place Firefox tabs on top by
default:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmgtW2Iw-kE

Contributors who are active in the Mozilla community will know that this
debate literally goes back for years. So in some respects this video will
serve as quick summary of all of the different arguments both for an against
the change. But the more interesting part isn't about looking back, it's
about looking forward. Recently modern browsers have been transitioning to
placing tops on top, and that decision isn't arbitrary, it isn't about
fashion. The change to placing tabs on top isn't about one browser versus
another browser, it's about the evolution of the Web as a platform.

It would behoove us to justify contentious design decisions in a similar
fashion.

David