Buzz
Firefox continues to be one of the most widely used web browsers today, and according to third-party market share data, it is the third most popular choice on computers after runner-up Microsoft Edge and champion Google Chrome, both of which are Chromium-based browsers.
Hence, Mozilla is continuously striving to enhance the user experience of Firefox on computers and introducing a new addition to the browser's feature set, called the Skeleton UI.
The company has acknowledged that launching Firefox after the operating system boots up can sometimes take quite a bit of time, averaging around 19 seconds to complete.
During this period, users don't receive any visual cues indicating the browser is loading, leading some users to repeatedly click the Firefox icon to start it, which is clearly more harmful than beneficial. Therefore, Mozilla has activated Skeleton UI in the latest Firefox Nightly version on Windows 10 for experimental users, indicating that the browser is loading when you open it during the first OS boot-up.
Skeleton UI is an empty Firefox screen that only displays the basic layout of the browser without any UI elements. Users will see the outline of the URL bar and tabs. Meanwhile, the browser's icons, tab names, and URL bar string are represented by thick gray lines to indicate that those bits of information are still loading.
Just like other features Mozilla is trying to implement on Firefox, the Skeleton UI is currently only available on Windows 10. It may soon come to other supported Windows versions, and macOS and Linux may also benefit from this feature.
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