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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 aroch »

asadotzler wrote: post #99
krelian wrote: post #92

So 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…

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.

They're also pretty much the next evolution of the FF tab design as things go "minimalist". The current tabs are curvy as well.

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

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Post by gresrun »

asadotzler wrote: post #99
krelian wrote: post #92

So 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…

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.

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

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

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Post by diegocg »

krelian wrote: post #92

So 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…

I have heard people argue that this design was done first in Firefox mockups many years ago, the Chrome team implemented it, now Firefox is implementing it too.

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

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Post by Achshar »

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.

You can also press the down arrow button and press return as usual that gives the option to search even if what you type looks like a url to the browser. Also I just tried it and the default selection for what you quote is search not the url.

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

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Post by troymc »

krelian wrote: post #92

So 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…

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.

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

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Post by geitiegg »

ahoge wrote: post #68

Looks 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…

Australis displays at least 17 tabs before expanding into the tab-scroll view when full screen, which is more than I'd typically have open at a time anyway.

http://i.imgur.com/8JIwdgh.jpg

Tab-scoll, to me, makes a lot of sense as it prevents any confusion over the content of the tabs, especially when those tabs lack favicons: in Chrome, you simply get a blank page icon when the scroll bar overflows.

The only downside to Australis for me so far has been the removal of the "thin" address bars/small icon sets, there is no longer an option within Firefox to enable them, as far as I know.

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

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Post by conradfr »

kbrosnan wrote: post #47
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/

I try to use softwares as vanilla as possible (especially with multiple computers not all synced) but thanks for pointing that out, we'll see.
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