I'm thoroughly convinced UI designers are under the impression we cut ourselves on sharp corners.
this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2026
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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.
Right. My sentiments exactly. Hopefully this won't trickle its way into LibreWolf ...
I don't like gaps, included rounded corners. Let me use all my screen space dammit
literally just fix bugs
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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
I swear some people would use NetScape GUI if they could.
Don't threaten me with a good time
So much wasted space 🤮
firefox's photon theme uses the same amount of space and that's without the menubar enabled ¯\(ツ)/¯
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I'd use it if it provided blazing fast performance. For me, usability and performance beats any nice looks
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Mostly we want them to make the browser itself not suck before worrying about cosmetics.
GUI and UX are totally related so it can improve the not suck part.
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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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).
This looks... nice actually, the settings reminds me of Microsoft Edge though
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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
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.
Guarantee you can turn off the sidebar.
You can. For now.
They already have this and it can be disabled. Why not use it for three seconds?
Because every now and again, it's a new three seconds. First it was the password manager. Then Sync. Then Monitor. Then AI chatbot.Before all of that it was a bunch of other things. Then it was the side tabs. _You gotta check them out!* Now it's this.
For me as well, I need to use the firefox profile creator website to get rid of all these things. It takes a good few minutes to configure. But for someone who may not know about the website? At least half an hour to thoroughly go through Preferences, and most things aren't even there!
Dynamic colors are cute and fun.
Sure!
Until you try putting them on an old laptop. Because why would anyone be using an old laptop in ~~2025~~ 2026? And then, how dare they expect to be able to browse the web? (Because static sites to download useful stuff apparently don't exist, nor do people who'd like to do that which don't know about curl).
This isn't just a Firefox problem, it's a global one. Instead of functionality, what's preferred is aesthetics. Instead of accessiblity, how accessible able people feel it is. Instead of performance, bloat.
Most of these things could be optional, Firefox Approved First-party add-ons or integrations, but this isn't the route this timeline has taken.
You can. For now.
my god you're right, they've sold out to Big Sidebar. the problem with their Sync is that it has no self-hostable e2ee option and you need to use Firefox servers that use Google stuff. comparing apples and rotten oranges most of this is silly
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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.
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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.
oh please no. i fucking hate having to edit my userchrome on every updates..
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
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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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..
Golly I can't wait.
But could they get rid of the spy shit first?
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