FireFox的历史——从火狐1到火狐3历代截屏欣赏(双语版)

在FireFox3提供下载的日子，让我们来回顾FireFox历史，从FireFox1到FireFox3的历代截屏图片中，看看FireFox的历代演变……

Mammon slept. And the beast reborn spread over the earth and its numbers grew legion. And they proclaimed the times and sacrificed crops unto the fire, with the cunning of foxes. And they built a new world in their own image as promised by the sacred words, and spoke of the beast with their children. Mammon awoke, and lo! it was naught but a follower.
玛门已沉睡。大地之上玛门野兽将重生，数目将会暴增。借着狐之智慧，他们说明数目并把收益祭献于火上。然后伴着野兽和它的子孙们的话语，如圣语所言，他们会按照自己的想法建立了一个新的世界。啊！玛门复苏，却仅仅成为一个追随者。

Mozilla released Firefox version 1.0 to relative obscurity in November of 2004, and four short years later, the much-anticipated Firefox 3.0 will hit the streets with ambitions of setting a new world record tomorrow. In honor of tomorrow's 3.0 release, let's take a look back at a visual history of Firefox, version 1.0 to 3.0.
回想四年前，04年11月Mozilla悄悄地发布了火狐1.0，而四年后，备受期望的火狐3.0带着创造新世界纪录的雄心将会在明天正式发布。借着明天火狐3.0发布的东风，让我们一起来通过截图回顾下火狐从1.0到3.0所走过的历程。

The Themes

The most significant change you'll notice in Firefox 3 off the bat is the new themes. Mozilla has skinned Firefox 3 to integrate with your operating system of choice. Firefox 3.0 in Vista now fits more into the aesthetic of Vista, Firefox in OS X likewise fits more with the look and feel of native OS X apps, and so on. Here's a quick look back at the changes from the Firefox 1.0 to 3.0 chrome.

界面皮肤

火狐3.0中你可能最先注意到的变化就是新的操作界面了。现在火狐3.0的界面能更好的和你所使用的操作系统融合。Vista下的火狐会更契合Vista华丽的风格, OS X 下的火狐也更有类似其他OS X自身软件的使用感觉。以下展示是火狐1.0到3.0版所历经的界面变化：

 

You'll notice a subtle change in the theme from Firefox 1 to 2, but nothing to write home about.
你会发现火狐1.0到2.0的界面几乎没有什么改变。

On the other hand, the changes between Firefox 2 and 3—and even between Firefox 3 on different operating systems—are significant.
而2.0到3.0，甚至是各个不同操作系统下的火狐3.0的界面的差别都很大。

Another huge change to the look and functionality of Firefox 3 is the new and improved Location bar. Not only can you find a web page in your history by address, but you can also search the location bar by page title. It's smart, too, so the more you go to a site, the higher it'll show up in your results.
另外一个在火狐3.0上功能及外观上的巨大变化是它的新地址栏。它让你不仅仅能通过网页地址来查找访问过的网站，而且能让你在地址栏中直接看到页面标题。这是个不错的功能，当然，你在一个站访问的越深，你的地址历史纪录会越多。

Options Dialog（选项窗口）

Between Firefox 1 and 2, the navigation sidebar in the Options dialog moved to the top and Mozilla added new options for handling RSS feeds and tab management, among other small tweaks.
火狐1.0到2.0，选项窗口的导航栏从侧边移到了头部，并且在其他的几个功能项之间加了一个Rss订阅的功能选项。

The biggest change in Firefox 3's Options window comes through re-thinking the Feeds tab as a complete application-management tab. You can now easily set how you want Firefox to handle any filetype through this interface as opposed to just tweaking how it handles feeds.
火狐3.0中最大的改变是将简单的Rss订阅功能项变成了一个应用组件管理的功能选项。现在你不仅仅是只能管理Rss订阅，而且还可以管理其他很多的应用文件类型。

Add-ons Management（插件管理）

In Firefox 1.0, extensions were extensions, themes were themes, and you managed them separately.
在火狐1.0，扩展功能插件和皮肤主题的管理是分开的。

In Firefox 2.0, Mozilla designers lumped extensions and themes together into a new Add-ons dialog.
火狐2.0中，两者被整合到了一个新的插件窗口中。

In Firefox 3, the Add-ons dialog hit the weight room, beefed up, and added a Plug-ins tab and the Get Add-ons tab, an add-ons store of sorts. Instead of searching the depths of the internet when you're looking for a new extension, you can go straight to the Get Add-ons tab, search for it, and install it without ever opening a web page
火狐3.0里，插件窗口变得更加丰富，新增了插件功能项和获取新功能插件功能项，以及一个分类的插件资源库。 现在你可以直接在这个窗口中查找新的扩展功能插件，直接进行搜索、安装，完全不用像以前那样打开新的网页。

Bookmarks Management（书签管理）

There's very little difference—if any—between the bookmarks management in Firefox 1 and 2.
火狐1.0和2.0的书签管理几乎没有任何差别。

Firefox 3, on the other hand, has completely revamped the look of the bookmarks manager and included support for some of Firefox 3's newer bookmark features, like smart folders and tags. (As you can see, I haven't tagged many bookmarks yet.)
而火狐3.0的书签管理的界面焕然一新，还包含了不少新功能，比如智能文件夹、智能标签等。

In Firefox 3, you can easily add or edit any bookmark while you're visiting a bookmarked page by clicking the new star in the address bar. Clicking it automatically bookmarks an unbookmarked page or provides you a simple avenue for removing a bookmark or adding tags.

火狐3.0中，在你访问网页时，只要点击地址栏新增的星型按钮，你可以很方便的增加或编辑一个书签。点击星型按钮，会自动的给你访问的页面加上书签或是让你再次编辑或删除书签。

Download Manager（下载管理）

The Downloads manager didn't change much between 1 and 2, but Firefox 3 has added a slight visual refresh, swapped out text links (like Cancel) for some buttons, and added a handy little search box to the bottom of the Downloads window to filter through your recent downloads.
火狐1.0和2.0的下载管理没有什么变化，火狐3.0有了一些改变，把退出这样的文字变成了更容易辨识的按钮，而且在下载窗口的下方还增添了一个小巧的搜索框让你在最近下载的文件中进行快速查找。

Password Management（通行证管理）

Like bookmarks, we didn't see any change in the way that Firefox 1 and 2 handled saving new passwords when you logged into a site.
像书签一样，我们看到火狐1.0和2.0在处理保存新密码时并没有任何的改变。

Firefox 3 provides a much less intrusive mechanism for asking you what you'd like to do with the login credentials you use to log into a site. Rather than triggering a pop-up window that requires a response before you can continue, the new password bar allows you to continue on your merry way without attending to it immediately. You can even ignore the prompt altogether if you prefer.
登陆一个站点时，火狐3提供了一个低干扰机制来询问你是否需要保存当前密码。比起一个需要你回应的弹出窗口，新的密码管理工具栏使你不必立即注意到它而继续进行你愉快的访问。你甚至可以完全不必理会它。

For more details on what you'll get with tomorrow's Firefox 3 release, see our top 10 Firefox 3 features.
了解更多火狐3.0的信息，请看我们的火狐3.0十大新特性。

If we missed a change that you think needs pointing out between Firefox versions 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0, tell us about it in the comments. No matter how you slice it, looking back at where Firefox has been, how far it's come, and where it's going, there's no question that it's a phenomenal browser that's never stopped evolving.
如果你觉得火狐1.0,2.0,3.0中的有什么变化我们没提到的，欢迎您能在回复中告诉我们。我相信无论是回顾火狐的过去，关注它的现在，还是展望它的未来，都能发现它的进步永不停止。

沪江UI团队资料翻译组作品，原文地址：The History of Firefox 1.0 to 3.0 in Screenshots

by：Vitamin_C,阿一

转载于:https://www.cnblogs.com/hjui/archive/2008/06/17/the-history-of-firefox-10-to-30-in-screenshots.html