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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 diaz »

davb wrote: post #97

I much prefer how it looks for me currently (Firefox 26.0b5 on XFCE, Greybird/Numix styles): http://i.imgur.com/XXzCFQZ.png It seems like change for the sake of making things "glossier". That inactive tabs have no top border bothers me. As does the fact it seems to completely ignore my native window toolkit tab/widget styles.

Very similar configuration as mine: http://imgur.com/PiehG1V

I have simplified and totally removed the search bar.

Some tweaks to get just an icon for the menu in the top left and also remove the close buttons in each tab. Probably something else I don't remember.

I thought this australis revision would make firefox look better integrated in the environment, not less, it seems they want to make it look the same in all plataforms...

I'm not a huge fan of that, but I'll wait to see if it can be integrated better of not.

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

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Post by hardwaresofton »

hardwaresofton wrote: post #152

So I just updated from the nightly PPA, but for some reason, I still haven't gotten the UX changes... Anyone know why this is? Building tarball right now to see if the changes are there

NVM, posted too fast -- UX is working in the tarball but not in the PPA-updated version for some reason...

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

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Post by rizumu »

super_mario wrote: post #133
bcj wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

Checkout the pentadactyl plugin "buftabs" for maximum vertical space and a friendly tab bar: http://www.leighbicknell.com/pentadactyl-setup/

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

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Post by RexRollman »

SwellJoe wrote: post #83
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).

Hmmm...I like the look of current Firefox more than Chrome on Linux. Looks more native.

Agree. Chrome looks totally out of place when running with Evilwm.

BTW: it is annoying the web browsers don't seem to support the -geometry switch under xorg.

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

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Post by bcj »

super_mario wrote: post #133
bcj wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

I could never get used to not having an address bar. I'm jealous.

The good news is that if you don't like the new look of firefox, you don't need to see it: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/classicthemer...

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

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Post by DigitalSea »

I don't care if they've taken heavy inspiration from Chrome. I love the UI of Chrome and I am glad Firefox aren't embarrassed or afraid to take such obvious inspiration from a great looking browser and build upon it. This is exactly what Firefox has needed, a properly designed UI.

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

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Post by brymaster »

fsck--off wrote: post #90
lux wrote: post #2

They're still keeping the search and address boxes separate? :\

A Mozilla coder gave an explanation for this several months ago: "In case you wonder, the reason for which Firefox doesn't merge url and search bar is to protect user's privacy. If you prefer a Chrome-style UI, there are a couple of add-ons that provide just that." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5590988

Thanks for that. Any idea on how exactly this protects privacy though? The moz dev didn't clarify.

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

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Post by mnutt »

brymaster wrote: post #159
fsck--off wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A Mozilla coder gave an explanation for this several months ago: "In case you wonder, the reason for which Firefox doesn't merge url and search bar is to protect user's privacy. If you prefer a Chrome-style UI, there are a couple of add-ons that provide just that." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5590988

Thanks for that. Any idea on how exactly this protects privacy though? The moz dev didn't clarify.

I assume the location bar only auto-completes previously visited URLs, while the search bar auto-completes search queries by hitting google with every key you press. So in chrome's unified case, google knows how many times you type http://news.y..*, not just every potential search query you make.
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