Mozilla is working on a big Firefox redesign, here is what it looks like : firefox

[–] jwt@programming.dev 51 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm thoroughly convinced UI designers are under the impression we cut ourselves on sharp corners.

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[–] Majestic@lemmy.ml 46 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No thank you. I like Firefox the way it is. I hate big changes for the sake of designers keeping their jobs changing my tools and workflow and making things ugly.

[–] zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Right. My sentiments exactly. Hopefully this won't trickle its way into LibreWolf ...

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 42 points 2 months ago

I don't like gaps, included rounded corners. Let me use all my screen space dammit

[+] umbrella@lemmy.ml 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] HouseWolf@pawb.social 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm far from an expert, but Ui design as a job seems to have a huge flaw were if you eventually make the "perfect Ui" you're suddenly out of a job.

So you're straight up punished for doing your job well and the only way to maintain a career is to just re-invent the wheel every so often and chase the trends of others doing the same thing so your Ui designs don't look "outdated"

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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

Well, their main problem is attention. And we are looking at a news article right now.

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[–] ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org 32 points 2 months ago

literally just fix bugs

[–] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This seems so out of place on every OS and DE I can think of.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 18 points 2 months ago

bring back native styling!

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm seeing this trend towards rounded corners in quite a few places, though. Certainly feels like early days of a larger design trend...

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[–] xcjs@programming.dev 20 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Old Firefox looked perfectly fine. I don't know why they keep wasting so many resources on changing something that already worked.

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[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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....

[–] flameleaf@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

userContent.css is absolutely essential for me. I use that to limit the size of images on Thunderbird.

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[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I really like it, I feel like it fixes some of the issues with groups and tabs looking a bit weird currently. Lol, I always like Firefox redesigns and really cannot understand how people go apeshit when that happens. I swear some people would use NetScape GUI if they could.

[–] catscape@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 months ago (13 children)

I swear some people would use NetScape GUI if they could.

[–] flameleaf@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago

Don't threaten me with a good time

[–] TheUnicornOfPerfidy@feddit.uk 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So much wasted space 🤮

[–] catscape@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

firefox's photon theme uses the same amount of space and that's without the menubar enabled ¯\(ツ)/¯

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[–] morto@piefed.social 5 points 2 months ago

I'd use it if it provided blazing fast performance. For me, usability and performance beats any nice looks

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[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Mostly we want them to make the browser itself not suck before worrying about cosmetics.

[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

GUI and UX are totally related so it can improve the not suck part.

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

While I agree overall it looks nice, I hate gaps and rounded corners. I’m sick of wasted space. And I’m sick of rounded corners.

I swear some people would use NetScape GUI if they could.

Now that would actually be nice!!

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[–] exaybachae@startrek.website 12 points 2 months ago

I prefer standardized OS wide appearances that are respected by all apps. The only skinning I want are Dark Modes or Mini Player modes (for media players).

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 12 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Wow look at those default screenshots. They look horrible, what a mess.

A useless sidebar, a lot of mess in the homepage, stupid shit being pushed to you.

Everytime i install Firefox i need to do a huge config setup to remove all that useless crap

[–] Reginald_T_Biter@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I used the side bar constantly in work as ive usually got 6 million tabs open. You can collapse it, and its off by default.

[–] mistermodal@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Guarantee you can turn off the sidebar. They already have this and it can be disabled. Why not use it for three seconds? I despise the Mozilla NGO stuff ruining Firefox but this is utterly benign. Dynamic colors are cute and fun.

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[–] leviathan@feddit.org 12 points 2 months ago (6 children)

This looks... nice actually, the settings reminds me of Microsoft Edge though

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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I hope it's just a joke

Yes, the classic Mozilla April Fools joke, released a full month early.

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

off by one error

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Argh, yet another userchrome.css overhaul to do.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 10 points 2 months ago

oh please no. i fucking hate having to edit my userchrome on every updates..

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 months ago

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

[–] zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago

😡

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

again??? why????

[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] I_quote_Seinfeld_a_lot@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

Seems like Mozilla is still too rich if they can afford complete redesign of their product every 3 years. Let's hope the lepton ui fix will continue to work, I might have to up my donation there..

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Golly I can't wait.

But could they get rid of the spy shit first?

[–] potatoguy@mbin.potato-guy.space 4 points 2 months ago

Monterey theme or Gnome theme forever.

[–] CoryCoolguy@lemmy.myserv.one 4 points 2 months ago

Again?

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