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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 Raphael »

pyre wrote: post #40
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. 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.

Ctrl-K will put a ? in front to indicate a search term.

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

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Post by derleth »

As long as the themes I use keep working, great. One of the best parts of Firefox (which Chrome seems incapable of picking up) is that themes work: You can change the whole look and feel to what you want, as opposed to it being what some self-styled UI expert thinks you should want.

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

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Post by pantalaimon »

DrJokepu wrote: post #116
troymc wrote: post #108

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Tabs are a design idea that predates the web. You'll find them on physical file folders, binders, and address books, for example. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that tabs were invented hundreds of years ago.

I think OP was talking about Chrome’s tabs specifically. Their appearance and the way they function. Firefox had tabs well before Chrome (and IIRC Opera had tabs well before Firefox).

Chrome didn't even exist when firefox had tabs, but I don't think there was ever a version of Chrome without tabs.

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

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Post by coldtea »

jasonlotito wrote: post #147
gresrun wrote: post #102

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Personally, I like the rounded edges but just adding a corner radius isn't exactly falling far from the Chrome tree.

Good thing that's not all they are doing.

Bad thing there's not much other changes.

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

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Post by zobzu »

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.

well firefox uses window manager decorations, chrome doesn't

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

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Post by zobzu »

krelian wrote: post #118
asadotzler wrote: post #99

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http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3696/8994445994_c0939b83ca_o.p... I recommend you take another look. They're not really the same at all. Firefox's designers were not going for the angular and mechanical chrome look at all. They were designing something softer, rounder and more human.

That's exactly the nitpicking I was referring to. If the corners are round or not makes little difference. The main thing here is the general outline of the tab and it's position in the window. If we can expand further we can also include the main menu which is in exactly the same spot with the same icon (maybe it's a standard icon, I've never seen it before Chrome and in earlier versions Chrome had, if I recall corr…

Well if you go that way, firefox tabs from the previous release look also the same as chrome and australis.. so uhm, you saying Chrome copied firefox tabs? (in fact, yes it did, but then again, everyone uses tabs, obviously)

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

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Post by zobzu »

aaronem wrote: post #141
espadrine wrote: post #120

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There's a bit of an optical illusion. Next to a curvy tab, Chrome's tab looks angular. Here's an actual side-by-side snapshot: " rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/sUGCX5I.png>

Oh, well. That's obviously a huge difference.

if you put any other app tabs next to it, including current firefox.. its a "huge" difference as well. So yeah. pointless argument is pointless...

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

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Post by zobzu »

WizzleKake wrote: post #58
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?

Concur. The design people in Firefox lost me as a user when they decided to re-arrange an interface that had looked the same for the better part of a decade. Re-arrange, not improve. Apparently years of users' visual + muscle memory means nothing to these UX guys. I persevered with it for a while but eventually I just gave up and switched browsers. Shame, since I'd been using Firefox since its first release (called P…

To be honest a lot of the changes from the new UI make sense to me. Specially the dreaded status bar. I much prefer the new tooltip style that doesn't take precious screen space. I also like the contextual forward button, most of the time you don't need it. And the smaller icons ;-)

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

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Post by zobzu »

Taylorious wrote: post #88

Why is Mozilla trying so hard to make Firefox exactly like Chrome? I have been using Firefox since like 1.5, if I wanted it to be like Chrome I would use Chrome.

pro-tip: firefox and chrome UI might be what you see most, but they're like 5% of the whole product.
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