Our most popular Mozilla User Experience designer, Alex Faaborg, has updated his blog with a post detailing some of the visual improvements in Firefox 3.5.

The visual refresh touches some well spotted UI elements, such as the glyphs used to switch tabs, scroll through tabs (if overflown), and the new tab button. Another change specifically for Mac (but considered for Windows) is the removal of the etch behind the back/forward combo (keyhole). On Linux the plug-in icon has changed, and they are considering more changes related to the sizes in default GNOME themes.

All these changes are minor, major changes are expected in Firefox 4, where more will be done to integrate it with the different platforms (especially Windows Vista/7).