When is this curved tab experiment going to end already. I hated it in every peace of software that ever used it, and it always forces me to find ways to get rid of it.
Why not just stick with native tab implementation?
Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly
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Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly
#132Hooray! 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).
Agreed, and thanks for sharing that addon -- I have been using chrome honestly ONLY because it looks just SLIGHTLY better.
Australis looks like it's going to solve all of my problems
Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly
#133Looks pretty wasteful. I prefer how it currently looks on my machine: http://i.imgur.com/PvlTZ3k.png My tabs can get as small as the pinned ones on the left (which is the default behavior of every other browser). There used to be a about:config setting for minimum tab width, but one(!) Firefox developer decided to remove it, because: "Users can override this using userChrome.css if they absolutely want it. I don't th…
I also use a very minimal setup ( http://imgur.com/NoCafoH ). On OSX, Australis will actually be thinner (once they fix https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=938985 ) because the window buttons are now on the same level as the tabs.
Firefox 25 is currently quite good (with Pentadactyl I hide the address and search bar altogether) http://imgur.com/pSzvcAi
This update will make it worse it seems and waste more vertical space (apart from the really ugly aliased curved tabs).
Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly
#134Looks pretty wasteful. I prefer how it currently looks on my machine: http://i.imgur.com/PvlTZ3k.png My tabs can get as small as the pinned ones on the left (which is the default behavior of every other browser). There used to be a about:config setting for minimum tab width, but one(!) Firefox developer decided to remove it, because: "Users can override this using userChrome.css if they absolutely want it. I don't th…
To be honest, I prefer having a scrolling tab pane, instead of tabs getting so small you can't read their text (I have quite a few tabs open). It should definitely be a user config option though.
You might also want to look into Stylish, this is a firefox addon that allows you to add custom CSS, and apply it without restarting.
Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly
#135Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly
#136Is it merged in today's build? It seems not to be available in the 28.0a1 (2013-11-18) OS X build/update.
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Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly
#137So nitpickers might point out differences but you cannot deny that the basic tab looks just like Chrome's. When Chrome came out with this it was new and innovative. Now it looks like a copy. When this blatant copying happens (and it happens in many places; it's no wonder all phones look like a variation of the original iphone) I always wonder if the designers really did convince themselves that their design is differ…
Sounds to me like focusing on the slight shift in tab location, as pioneered by Chrome, is exactly the kind of nitpicking you're complaining about. It's not like moving the tabs up a couple pixels fundamentally changed the browser.
When Opera first pioneered tabs they were found on the bottom. It was Firefox that made the drastic (though unsurprising) change of moving them above the page contents. One could argue maybe Chrome should not have employed this "tired" design choice and perhaps placed their tabs on the left (a la Ubuntu Unity). But this whole line of argumentation sounds ridiculous when someone has already figured out a pretty optimal place for those tabs.
Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly
#138So nitpickers might point out differences but you cannot deny that the basic tab looks just like Chrome's. When Chrome came out with this it was new and innovative. Now it looks like a copy. When this blatant copying happens (and it happens in many places; it's no wonder all phones look like a variation of the original iphone) I always wonder if the designers really did convince themselves that their design is differ…
How can you say FF copied the tab design from Chrome when neither one of them created the concept of tabbed browsing in the first place? They are both using the conceptual model of tabbed folders, which have been around for ages. Curved-corner tabs and sharp-corner tabs are both variants of the same thing. Nobody even cares how the tabs look.
Clearly, both Firefox and Chrome are copying Avery. They are literally killing innovation.
Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly
#139Earlier 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. Example I always run into: site:news.ycombinator.com foo bar baz "site" is an unknown protocol now, because it looks like a URL. I have to remember to put the search terms first.
Just put a question mark in front, and you shouldn't have an issue. I used to run into that problem all the time.
Not sure how it would work if you wanted to search Amazon or something...
Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly
#140Hooray! 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).
It looks like every other app. What is wrong with that?
For example I'd like to have the Firefox button at top left orange, not gray. And slimmer (not as tall as a tab). It's clearly less polished than the Windows version. And yet I thanks them everyday for the browser