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eh it looks cool and all, but why do we need a redesign every 6 months?
shouldn’t they be using those man-hours to like, solve the fingerprinting problem for example?
Not sure I’d be okay trusting designers to solve fingerprinting.
i’d trust mozilla to pay for developers instead of yearly redesigns.
I hate everything about “modern design” … Rounded corners, gradients, blur and transparency effects, fading in/out … fuck that! I want my browser to look and feel like the rest of my UI.
oddly enough all these things have repeatedly appeared, disappeared, and reappeared in my lifetime, e.g. titlebars on Windows became transparent with Vista, then stopped being so in, I think, Windows 8?
Yes, it’s fortunately just a trend. Just like websites. At one point tiny 10px font for main text content and absurdly small navigation buttons were seen as “modern”, nowadays huge empty spaces and 30px fonts are the norm.
Or Javascript vs no Javascript, this also changes every few years.
I just hope this ugly mess will just be the annoying design fad of the year.
well, the rest of my UI has rounded corners, transparency, and blur 🤷♂️
I’m so sorry for you 😆
This is basically what I was thinking. I customized Firefox to be less rounded with sharp edges, single color and much denser. I don’t know why every application is treated like a new abstract art (off course I’m exaggerating here).
That’s mine (resized to not have a huge screenshot file)
Custom fully custom labwc theme, customized GTK theme, modified Firefox (userChrome.css)
Thunar for reference.
Anything more and I’d feel super distracted and annoyed.
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There is clearly a lot going on in your UI! It’s always great to see how people customize their environment and funny how corporations like Mozilla think they know better.
I don’t mean like minimalism. I’m clearly more maximalist in my themeing than you lol.
Oh, my theming is maximalist. Especially labwc: It’s 100% custom from ground up for theme and configuration. Not one single bit was taken over from the default configuration. It’s just the result that is minimalist 😆
Same with Firefox: I override almost all of the tabs styling with custom configuration.
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I was hoping for screenshot sharing, lol. Yours look
similarfamiliar, I wouldn’t be surprised if we shared in the past whenever we had this topic before.Mine evolves from time to time. Sometimes I learn something new from new screenshots and incorporate that. One such recent “implementation” is the Bookmarks Toolbar. I created a top level directory named “Favorites” and put all quick access bookmarks in there and moved the toolbar to the same level of tabs, to save me an entire extra line of bar. My current Firefox looks like this:
I’m on KDE, the titlebar is disabled for all windows (I’m an auto tiler person). BTW I’m not sure how to get rid off the rounded corners of the window, but that is not Firefox specific.
Yours look similar familiar, I wouldn’t be surprised if we shared in the past whenever we had this topic before.
I did and I will continue doing so! 😇
Every time I see a blog post with a title like this from Mozilla, I have a conversation like this in my head:
Me: You’re changing the tab shape again, aren’t you?
Mozilla: Today, we’re announcing a new— erm, yes, we’re changing the tab shape…
Me: Anything else?
Mozilla: We’re centering privacy settings in—
Me: So nothing new?
Mozilla: Not really…
Glad that compact mode will be officially supported again. Makes such as big difference on a laptop screen.
They probably haven’t fulfilled their RAM usage quota yet
Didn’t think they could make the tags any less clear and contrasted than they did last time, so I guess they sure showed me.
New compact mode is great, I might be in the minority here but I like the new design.
On mobile they did a really good job with this version, lots of very useful new options. Still haven’t gotten around to trying it on a computer.
They chance the look again. I have to say, the new look looks better than the current default. But it’s not for me and I will heavily customize the look anyway. Hopefully my current customization works as it is and I have nothing to do…
I find firefox more cumbersome than ever to use. Small things like expanding menu optionslook great but practically add steps to interactions.
I cant intuitively make a bookmark a shortcut, it just happens and if I edit it, it gets pinned. I want a list of favourites but instead there are dozens of reddit variations suggested because of browsing habits instead of accepting my r/all shortcut as being my entry point.
I can select always desktopmode but not choose what domains it should only do it for.
I hate chrome but it works better, I had to use it for work and it became the default. It is am unfortunate slog to degoogle whereas before I enjoyed being provacy focused because it got me a better product.
I think Mozilla has lost the plot
This reads like such corporate nonsense tbh
