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Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

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Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

#81

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?

I'm over 12 and I have a rainbow in my title bar.

Design is extremely subjective.

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

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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).

It looks like every other app. What is wrong with that?

Assuming we are talking about ubuntu - a lot.

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

#83
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.

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

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

I just get rid of the search bar and use the URL bar for search too, don't think there are any downsides to doing that.

Well in firefox you can't do searches like cache:news.ycombinator.com or site:news.ycombinator.com (Edit: in the address bar)

I also prefer the way firefox acts with suggestions in the search and address bar being separate, I often find myself messing up where I meant to go because I thought pressing enter would take me to a site but instead goes to a search.

Firefox is easy for me because the address bar acts differently.

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

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post #66
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).

I only hope they're also getting rid of GTK icons on the main chrome. They make (unthemed) Firefox on a high-DPI screen completely unusable. (Why? Scaling up page content (via layout.css.devPixelsPerPx) also scales up chrome, including the (already properly sized) icons­— so every icon in Fx ends up being four times larger than it should.)

We are replacing the GTK icons with custom icons.

Are you manually changing layout.css.devPixelsPerPx to support a hidpi display?

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

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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…

Going to have to concur here. Unfortunately it appears that Australis presently isn't targeting those who change their userchrome whether by addon or directly.

I think the design looks good, I just hope that it will be given the same amount of customization freedom Firefox enjoys pre-Australis.

My Nightly: http://i.imgur.com/1oPRtU2.png

I expect significant breakage tomorrow / later today.

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

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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

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