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Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

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Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

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Post by antsar »

ngpio wrote: post #36
Pxtl wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My problem with conflating search and URL is 1) 1-word searches/domains or searches involving a domain-looking piece of text throw it off. 2) cluttering my typed-URL history with search keywords.

> 1) 1-word searches/domains or searches involving a domain-looking piece of text throw it off. With DuckDuckGo, it's easy to prepend/append "!ddg" onto the offending text to force a search. I sometimes have to do this for arithmetic operations, the first operand of which the bar interprets as an address. For me, the small amount of extra time this takes is worth it. A unified search/URL bar, particularly with DDG's…

!ddg is quite a few extra keystrokes though. Isn't it easier to just keep a shortcut key bound to that search? For example, I have 'g' bound for Google. The result:

  "blah blah"  -> Google: blah blah
  "blahblah"   -> attempts to find a host named blahblah
  "g blahblah" -> Google: blahblah

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

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Post by latortuga »

kibwen wrote: post #12

Hooray! 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).

Huge agreement from a regular Chrome user on Linux here. I watched the video and the design is great. I'm really looking forward to this landing in a stable release.

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

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Post by kbrosnan »

kibwen wrote: post #12

Hooray! 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).

Firefox UX branch on Linux (Gnome) http://i4.minus.com/i3HfXuN32bRDe.png

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

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Post by jcutrell »

"Modern, clean, and comfortable."

Design terms like these, when juxtaposed with the "curvy tab" language, get way under my skin.

What is a "comfortable" design, exactly? I suppose a better question would be, what made the other design "uncomfortable"?

What is a clean design? Do you really mean "modern" instead of "clean"? Wouldn't it be better to say the interface elements are more defined, or there are less textures, or whatever?

Perhaps this is Janet Murray speaking through me (GaTech), but using vague terms to describe minuscule changes is somewhat bombastic. Instead, use appropriately narrow and descriptive terms.

I guess the rant is here because the changes aren't really that big of a deal. It's pretty much a nod to Chrome, run through a few iterations, am I right? Or maybe I'm being short sighted.

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

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Post by m_gloeckl »

rodms wrote: post #28
sp332 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you type a word into the address box, it tries to look it up in DNS. If you put a word in the search bar, it goes straight to search.

You can type a ? before the one word in the url bar to go straight to search

I created keyword search bookmarks for all my frequently used search engines. For example, I often look up music releases on musicbrainz: http://musicbrainz.org/search?query=%s&type=release I bookmarked this URL and assigned a keyword (You can also right-click input fields and select 'Add a keyword for this search'). Now, everytime I enter "mb-r " into the url bar, it goes straight to musicbrainz and inserts my search string into the %s-placeholder.

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

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Post by untog »

mixmastamyk wrote: post #39

Do not want. I'm happy with the tabs provided with my OS theme and do not want each app to have tabs with a custom shape and wasted space. Do not want a rainbow in my title bar and have not met anyone > 12 that does. What is it with these people and their obsession with skinz! and constant rearranging of buttons?

Do not want a rainbow in my title bar and have not met anyone > 12 that does.

You do realise that's an add-on skin, right? The entire point of that system is that people can do whatever the hell they like and you aren't affected by it.

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

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Post by kbrosnan »

conradfr wrote: post #37

I hate this tab design so much. I hate it with a passion since the first release of Chrome. And I don't even know why :) So I'm quite sad to see it landing in Firefox.

So use a complete theme. May take a bit for some to get updated as they need to overlay the current UI elements. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/complete-themes/

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

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Post by nsmartt »

Firefox has looked awful on Linux for a long time. I'm excited to see a consistent design on every OS, and I've been primarily using the UX build for months.

A lot of people say this looks a lot like Chromium, but I don't find that to be the case at all. The background tabs aren't rounded at all, while tabs are shown to be rounded on mouse-over. It's a significant improvement over Chromium's approach. I'm not a tremendous fan of the rounded design, but it's certainly an improvement over the previous design.

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

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Post by truhd »

Looks like Australis "borrows" a lot from Chrome UI. It has pinned tabs with an icon, chrome like tab shape, chrome like options (3 horizontal bar) icon, chrome like simple settings and even chrome like icons (incognito, bookmarks).
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