I’m not very familiar with Firefox design conventions, but I admit I fell for this. And you know that’s always a bad sign for usability, me failing in tasks. Har har.
When presented with the “Firefox Add-on Updates” little window on a Windows machine (hence, no strong highlight in pre-selected buttons as below, in Mac OS X), I accidentally clicked on “Skip”.
Somewhere, somehow, my mind has decided that on the right is the way to confirm and finish a job. The place for the “OK, get done with it and let me be” button.
I would swallow on my mistake, if I hadn’t realised that on the next screen, when the add-on update has been successfully applied, Firefox features a “Continue” button – this time on the right.
Pardon me, for I am confused. What goes on the right? OK or Cancel? Papa Nielsen, get me out!
one comment on this post
Eleftherios Kosmas #1
29.Aug.08
This is a mistake i usually do when installing apps in Firefox 3, i used to blame myself for not being able to use both FF and Konqueror but i think there is an issue here that the FF3 usability developer team has to adress.