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Firefox Release 89.0

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Re: Firefox Release 89.0

#11
I don't mind the new design, except for the 2-line "Playing" message on tabs playing audio. It just seems really obnoxious.

I know in compact mode it's similar to how it was previously, but knowing that's now hidden away and unsupported doesn't exactly inspire confidence it'll stick around for long…

Re: Firefox Release 89.0

#12
I bounce between qutebrowser, brave, and firefox - could anyone who exclusively uses ff convince me to switch? I've always viewed ff as a solid fine out of ten, and would be interested in hearing more about any unique and cool features.

Re: Firefox Release 89.0

#13
post #3

I was worried last year (I think it was last year...) when Mozilla laid off a bunch of people that Firefox would be a casualty. Thankfully that doesn’t seem to be the case!

Is this irony? A lot of the fired developers worked on the engine and all the surrounding levels below the UI, there are bugs lasting years in the current engine, but this is the UI lipstick change nobody needed anyway but its convenient for the management to demonstrate that "they" did "something".

A tab that doesn't look like a tab but like a button. Progress!

Re: Firefox Release 89.0

#15
Chrome does superficial ui updates way less than Firefox. One of them got the priority right. Honestly these kinds of change can be welcomed by some people and not by some others, I personally don't like that thick ass tab bar.

Re: Firefox Release 89.0

#17
post #6
post #2

Looks like this is the first stable version with their renewed UI? Downloading.

Oh dear God, is it like the mobile version? I need to turn off updates asap and test it first. I was willing to give it more time on Android, but it would randomly stop loading pages and that was the last straw. I begrudgingly use Chrome now :/

FWIW, I encountered quite a few bugs in the initial Fenix versions, but I've found that they've managed to get rid of most of the bugs now.

This should be less drastic, as Fenix was a complete rewrite. Whereas this seems more of an incremental update to the styling.

Re: Firefox Release 89.0

#18

I bounce between qutebrowser, brave, and firefox - could anyone who exclusively uses ff convince me to switch? I've always viewed ff as a solid fine out of ten, and would be interested in hearing more about any unique and cool features.

Multi-account containers are awesome: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers

Also good to keep non-chrome browsers alive.

Re: Firefox Release 89.0

#19
Still can't use it. The tabs have the close button on the wrong side, for me as a Mac user. And yes, this is a serious issue. So far Opera and Vivaldi got it right. Brave and Firefox lack behind here.

Re: Firefox Release 89.0

#20

Does anyone feel that this new UI brings notable improvement? I don't think it is much worse, other than taking some extra vertical space but for the most part my reaction is "meh". I feel like these resources could have been spent much better in other parts of the browser. Am I missing some reason why this is worth the investment?

I've been using it for a while now with Firefox developer edition and I can't figure out a reason why it was done. Does it give a new look? Sure, but I too don't know if anything was made better because of it.
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