Firefox inconsistency "bug"

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 17:01 +0100, lists wrote:
> I have noticed a annoying thing about Firefox in FC3. 
> 
> If you want to change your connection settings its Edit => Preferences
> => General 
> 
> in Firefox for windows, its under Tools => Options => General
> in Thunderbird for windows its under Tools => Options => Advanced
> in Thunderbird for FC3 its under Tools => Options => Advanced 
> 
> Why not move the Preferences item from Edit to Tools and call it Options? 
> 
> (i dont know if this is in FC3 only or a general thing with Firefox for
> linux) 

I think it's a general thing with Firefox for linux. I guess the reason
is to follow the GNOME user interface guidelines.

http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/

Marco