I really, really dislike that the bookmark button has been taken out of the address bar, that's my biggest pet peeve, along with the slightly less customisable look.
Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly
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Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly
#12Hooray! Been waiting for this for a long time. I'll be especially happy if Mozilla can manage to improve the default look of Firefox on Linux, where it's just absolutely dreadful (and where I'm usually forced to resort to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fxchrome/ to preserve my sanity).
Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly
#13Can it be disabled? Not everyone is going to like it or it may break a useful extension.
Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly
#14It looks even more like chrome now. DISCLAIMER: I don't like chrome.
I agree. It's still more beautiful in my opinion though.
I don't like Chrome either, but a few parts of it are nice.
The thing I dislike most about recent Firefox releases is that the selected search engine influences URL bar search, which is rather annoying in my opinion, but then I removed the search feature from the URL bar, making them at least somewhat distinct again.
Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly
#15Can it be disabled? Not everyone is going to like it or it may break a useful extension.
I think so, haven't tried to be honest, but this article http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-disable-australis-in-firefox-...
Also this only affects the nightly and add-on developers should be testing nightly anyway so they should prepare to update their add-ons in the future to adopt to the new UI.
Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly
#16Can it be disabled? Not everyone is going to like it or it may break a useful extension.
Technically speaking, the Nightly Build is only for testing purposes and is the most unstable version of FF available.
Here's a brief explanation:
In order of development - some new features may come and go from channel to channel.
Nightly - Under heavy development. Least stable/secure. First tests of new changes/features; some changes/features introduced in Nightly may be removed before Release and other versions. Only for testing. Should only be used by very experienced users/testers.
Aurora - Still under development. More stable/secure than Nightly. Some bugs may still be present that need resolution. Should be used by experienced users only who can post/report reproducible problems and work around issues.
Beta - Final development stage before Release. Usually good stability/security. Major bugs resolved. Working out final bugs. Preview of what Release version will most likely contain in the way of changes/features, though some changes/features can still disappear before Release.
Release - Final channel released to public for everyday use.
Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I prefer it this way...The address box works as a search bar but the search is persistent (ie. I can search for something, close the tab and come back later in two key presses)
I've recently tried to switch back from chrome to Firefox but the persistent search thing really bugs me, as well as the fact that it doesn't always search when typing into the url bar. If you want to get back so quickly there are recently closed, bookmarks, history and plenty of other ways. Always persisting the search term I find very visually distracting. Edit: On the other hand, the current tab behaviour is more…
There is a not-so-well-known trick. Type % into the url bar and you can quickly navigate tabs opened. :)
Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly
#18It looks even more like chrome now. DISCLAIMER: I don't like chrome.
I agree. It's still more beautiful in my opinion though. I don't like Chrome either, but a few parts of it are nice. The thing I dislike most about recent Firefox releases is that the selected search engine influences URL bar search, which is rather annoying in my opinion, but then I removed the search feature from the URL bar, making them at least somewhat distinct again.
I wrote an addon for that issue: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/keywordurl-ha...
Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly
#19They're still keeping the search and address boxes separate? :\
by default. the address box still works as a search box, if you don't want the separate search box just get rid of it.
Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly
#20Been using this on the UX branch for a while now, loving it. Been very stable, excited to see this is finally merged.