Firefox Redesign Brings Round Tabs, New Themes, and Compact Mode (theverge.com)
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- News link: https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/26/09/29/194251/firefox-redesign-brings-round-tabs-new-themes-and-compact-mode
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/tech/1001867/mozilla-firefox-157-redesign-compact-mode
> According to Mozilla, the design changes will have "no cost to your browser performance." Mozilla says the overhauled design is a "renewal" for Firefox, following major updates over the last year, like homepage widgets, Split View, a built-in VPN, and controls for [3]disabling the browser's AI features .
[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/new-firefox-design-is-here/
[2] https://www.theverge.com/tech/1001867/mozilla-firefox-157-redesign-compact-mode
[3] https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/02/07/073233/firefox-announces-ai-controls-to-block-its-upcoming-ai-features
Did they bring back the throbber? (Score:2)
If it doesn't have the throbber, status bar, and big ass buttons at the top like classic Netscape I don't care.
Rounded tabs? (Score:5, Insightful)
These clowns keep finding new ways to waste screen real estate.
Re: Rounded tabs? (Score:2)
They should fire whoever told them this was a good idea and everyone who supported it. Completely backwards. Looks like those people never worked with more than 5 tabs before.
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Can you turn it back to rectangular tabs in tool/settings
I use the portable version and it hasn't been updated yet.
Re: Rounded tabs? (Score:4, Informative)
> "Can you turn it back to rectangular tabs in tool/settings"
I doubt that. And themes only change colors and backgrounds.
But you can make actual changes with Userchrome. It takes a bit of effort, though. I have my tabs square and always outlined and against the content, in a traditional way, using it.
[1]https://www.userchrome.org/ [userchrome.org]
[2]https://github.com/Aris-t2/Cus... [github.com]
[1] https://www.userchrome.org/
[2] https://github.com/Aris-t2/CustomCSSforFx
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I used to use Userchrome to reorganize the order of context menus and do a few other UI tweaks... until they removed those features.
Now I don't bother. I just use a fork of Firefox.
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Not easily. That's why I use the Floorp fork. They preserve the ability to set the UI to something sane.
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If you're posting on slashdot you should be old enough to recognize that designers cycle through the same trends perpetually.
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> If you're posting on slashdot you should be old enough to recognize that designers cycle through the same trends perpetually.
Guess they gotta justify their jobs and salaries somehow... /s
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THIS !!!! We created a whole new job...UI engineer, but they were not needed to start with and things haven't changed. They HAVE to redo UI every time or they don't have a purpose, imagine that. They make arbitrary changes based on worst taste case.
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Actually, they were needed around 1980. But in the last few decades they seem to concentrate on making things worse.
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> "These clowns keep finding new ways to waste screen real estate."
1) Nothing is larger than before or using more space.
2) They just brought back compact mode, which REDUCES the screen real estate. Turn it on and be happy.
I am OK with people complaining about things, but at least make them valid complaints...
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It's clear from [1]screenshots on this page [mozilla.org] that is not what I am talking about here. I know that nobody RTFAs, but RTFA before you come at me bro
[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/new-firefox-design-is-here/
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Agreed. I just watched the video and they've doubled down on the annoying changes they've been making for years now. All that rounding wastes space by definition - a square holds more of squares and circles than a circle holds of circles and squares, if you know what I mean. Why all the rounded corners? Are they afraid users will cut themselves, so they've created the browser equivalent of kiddie scissors?
They've also kept the monochromatic controls bullshit which eliminates colour as a cue for identifying
Worse. Rounded VIEWPORT (Score:2)
This is probably the absolute dumbest piece of shit trend ever: rounded corners on the viewport. Who asked for it? No one. Who needs it? No one. Does it cover page content? Possibly.
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I'm not seeing that. Lots of rounded GUI elements, but the viewport (meaning where the actual web content is displayed) is still a rectangle for me.
I kind of like the new look, but it's /. tradition to shit all over Firefox, so meh.
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The rounded parts waste space. They create more visual space which can be helpful for some people who are not using very many tabs. Seriously what we want is better ad blocking, better performance and lower memory use which frankly I am pretty happy about these days anyway so thanks for that Firefox devs, and oh yeah less stuff forced on us! Let us keep a theme. Don't shove AI or Pocket or any other thing in there, make it an extension! Let us just set the scrollbar width with a goddamn slider!
None of this
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I don't understand. I'm still on 156.0.1 and my tabs are already rounded? I believe they've been like that for a long time now. How is this new?
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> These clowns keep finding new ways to waste screen real estate.
Oval tabs do seem to waste some space, especially on the left/right margins, but I don't know if it's a lot of space.
A more pertinent question is, "How do oval tabs enhance the browser, its usage, and/or actual browsing experience?" 'cause I can't see any real benefit over rectangular tabs -- and the latter is actually more space efficient.
"Major redesign" (Score:2)
> "Firefox 157 is rolling out a major redesign"
Exactly how is slightly more rounded tabs/address bar and some slightly different icons a "major redesign"? (It isn't). BTW- I hate rounded buttons and tabs, so I use mods to fix that anyway. It isn't new, they have had those rounded for a long time.
Anyway, it is good they brought back compact mode, I could not fathom why it was taken away in the first place.
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A very slight rounding is useful, as it makes the distinction between one tab and another easier to spot. Currently on my Firefox it's done by highlighting the active tab and putting a small icon at the start of the tab...which also wastes space, but differentiates tabs. (OTOH, the tab labels are already slightly rounded, but the "not currently selected tabs" are so greyed out that the tab margins are invisible. Not ideal. And if they do the same thing with the rounded tabs, there will be absolutely no
I wish it was easier to click the title bar (Score:2)
At least on macOS, I've increasingly wished I could click the title bar without worrying I am clicking some arbitrary button. Originally title bars intentionally had dead areas so you could easily throw them around. While a compact mode is nice, I feel like it potentially makes this problem worse.
I miss Linux where I could use sloppy focus and disable click to raise so this was a non-issue, but I have been pulled into the mac ecosystem for a while now..
I've considered donating $5 a month to Firefox to sup
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They keep making changes I don't like, I'm not paying for them to make it worse. If I could pay only for them to make it better somehow I would do that. The performance is fine, the memory use is fine, the reliability is fine, but I really hate everything they are doing around them. If they would sell me the browser I want without all that crap done to it then I would pay for that. Otherwise it's a hard hell no.
Too many UX designers with nothing to do (Score:5, Insightful)
so they keep making UI changes for the sake of doing something to justify their existence.
They wasted testing efforts on UI changes that could have used for fixing bugs and improving performance instead. This is an organisational problem of having the wrong talent mix in the team, and management that lacks vision and sense of responsibility to make corrections.
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UX designers don't have anything to do. Standards have been established and nothing has changed enough to warrant new ones. They just keep dicking around in circles because they have low self esteem knowing their job is frosting, and not the good cream cheese kind but the high fructose garbage.
New feature: Vertical Tabs (left / right) (Score:1)
I for one like the Vertical Tabs on the right. Thanks Firefox!
WHO wants these changes? (Score:2)
Besides the new IT guys?
I absolutely HATE changes in Apps I use daily.
Just stop. (Score:2)
My windowing system has a theme. One I'm comfortable with. Please use it and stop going off and doing your own kooky thing.
Just Updated (Score:2)
I just updated without knowing what I would be getting. Yuck. Do not like the dark purple highlights one bit.
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The tolerance people couldn't tolerate him.
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Yes it’s quiet a paradox. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
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I don't see this. You know you can change the colors, like you always could, right?
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It's dark mode that's affected. Yes, it's possible to adjust it out. I think it's arrogant of the developers to make an appearance choice like this.
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> It's dark mode that's affected. Yes, it's possible to adjust it out. I think it's arrogant of the developers to make an appearance choice like this.
Someone needs to justify their existence.
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> It's dark mode that's affected. Yes, it's possible to adjust it out. I think it's arrogant of the developers to make an appearance choice like this.
Agreed. Disable dark theme for private mode: "browser.theme.dark-private-windows" => false
In "user.js"
> user_pref("browser.theme.dark-private-windows", false);