I hope it’s just a joke
I’m thoroughly convinced UI designers are under the impression we cut ourselves on sharp corners.
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Bring back more drop shadows and skeuomorphism
I hope I can live enough to see that.
I just updated my Jetbrains Rider IDE and holy border radius batman.
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I really hate the trend of people just randomly changing UI in apps for no apparent reason. It’s just a pervasive problem at this point.
Definitely, after the redesign i now have to read all the labels because just about everything has changed its layout
Exactly, and I get why companies do it. They generally prioritize bringing new customers on, so they tweak things because they think it’s more trendy or appealing. But for an open source project to do these things just makes no sense at all. I get the impression people running things at Mozilla are completely disconnected from what Firefox users actually want at this point.
Well, their main problem is attention. And we are looking at a news article right now.
You’re right. It’s too few AI chatbots!
There is way too much white-space in this design. I’m tired of getting higher resolution displays only to lose that resolution to applications that get chunkier.
Old Firefox looked perfectly fine. I don’t know why they keep wasting so many resources on changing something that already worked.
Because aesthethics also change through the years. You have to make your product appealing to today’s standards.
While this may be true for commercial products and services, Firefox was never supposed to be one.
Every software application Is a commercial product itself. The more appealing, the more users and thus relevance…
Ultimately I just need Firefox to always support about:config, manifest v2 compatibility, and userChrome.css and userContent.css.
That said, usually changes like these break my extremely minimal redesign and configs I have on my desktop. So… boo, Mozilla, boo…
userContent.css is absolutely essential for me. I use that to limit the size of images on Thunderbird.
Ultimately I just need Firefox to always support about:config, manifest v2 compatibility, and userChrome.css and userContent.css.
Isn’t userchrome.cc already deprecated for quite some time?
It’d be news to me, I’ve used the same userChrome.css and userContent.css for years now and I keep my Gentoo Linux desktop up to date with weekly updates, so the Firefox I’m using is confirmed to be the latest version.
Additionally, a quick search on ddg reveals no recent mentions nor plans for deprecation of the feature as far as I can tell.
I found this Reddit discussion
The timeline fits (pre-covid), but I got the word wrong. I thought userchrome would’ve been killed of by now.
This seems so out of place on every OS and DE I can think of.
bring back native styling!
I’m seeing this trend towards rounded corners in quite a few places, though. Certainly feels like early days of a larger design trend…
Yes, my first thought went to JetBrains IDEs recent “Islands” redesign, but it somehow looks better in dark mode than it does in these mockups.
Argh, yet another userchrome.css overhaul to do.
I hope it’s just a joke
Yes, the classic Mozilla April Fools joke, released a full month early.
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thanks i hate it if youre gonna keep going chromium then take from vivaldi.
but really you should take from seamonkey and palemoon for ui ideas mozilla
This looks… nice actually, the settings reminds me of Microsoft Edge though
Monterey theme or Gnome theme forever.
again??? why???
Designers need a reason to exist. So instead of doing user surveys and making new, modular themes (so you can choose the redesign), they scrap everything every few years so they have something to do. Because apparently modularity is hard.
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Golly I can’t wait.
But could they get rid of the spy shit first?
Firefox hasn’t looked good since they changed “Photon” for “Proton” with those awful floating tabs. Thank god for Zen Browser.
