Atrocious.
If you want to try Firefox with a UI Redesign that doesn't suck, try Zen Browser
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It's wild to me how UI developers just can't let things be. Certain elements are timeless and just work. Why do you feel you have to reinvent the wheel every few years?
Microsoft had an undo/redo buttom. It became the undo/dropdown, whatnisnin the dropdown? Redo.
It just added an extra click. That is all
Quite franky I am tired of these fucking rounded corners everywhere. The current design is fine. Already a bit too rounded. Just make quality of life and web compatibility improvements rather than change the look of the GUI.
Its just wasted space. Horrible design.
To casual users, the sort likely to lap up Apple’s colourful new MacBook Neo or find Google’s Material You colour flourishes appealing, it’s the kind of change that could win over hearts and minds; a way to signal “I am like the others, don’t think me strange”.
This sounds pretentious as fuck.
Because it is
Also material you is absolute dogshit
I kinda like it. But yeah, I'd prefer them to focus more on catching up on features like HDR support, or newer CSS features like anchor positioning...
Very different personnel involved in those tasks...
But the same money
Bah just fix the browser first. Give a way to disable audio for given sites. Fix the regression that made it impossible to turn off JavaScript on a page that was already loaded. Give a way to edit bookmark URLs from the toolbar bookmark widget. Make about:processes show why "Firefox" (rather than a specific tab) sometimes gobbled the whole CPU. Etc etc.
A full redesign every 4 years really is insane. And for what? Is the usability really better? I just hope this also improves customization, because they keep breaking the ability to change browser colors.
Their biggest challenge is getting attention, because most users just use the default browser. A redesign brings them into the news, as can be seen above.
They've also broken the plugin API more times than I can remember. Wonder if they'll do it again with this redesign.
Too many UX designers needing to justify their jobs leads to this. It also leads to less customisation options, since they also seem to take it as an insult when someone doesn't like their "masterpiece" as is.
You need way more than designers to do a full UI redesign. And less customization is really just a product of engineering. It takes way longer to make something fast and customizable. So they choose fast.
I don't like this style, floating and rounded corners. This is (customized) how my Firefox looks and I like it and I don't want to change it:
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