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Mozilla is planning a major design overhaul with the release of Firefox 25 in October

Yea, it's a load of crap. It's breaks almost everything I find useful. I'm hoping it gets forked, or I might switch to Seamonkey. Both Mozilla and Gnome can go to hell with the removing features is a feature shtick. At least Gnome is doing their own thing. Mozilla is blatantly aping Chrome, and if I wanted to use Chrome I would.
 
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Unless someone comes up with yet another add-on or config edit to make it look like I want it to, I won't be upgrading I guess. Like lxskllr said, if I wanted to use Chrome, I would. The top bar in 25 looks exactly like Chrome. 🙄
 
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I see nothing wrong with it. They just moved the button to the right side and gave the tabs a curve.
 
pyonir said:
:thumbsdown:

Unless someone comes up with yet another add-on or config edit to make it look like I want it to, I won't be upgrading I guess. Like lxskllr said, if I wanted to use Chrome, I would. The top bar in 25 looks exactly like Chrome. 🙄
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Nope it does not look like chrome/chromium. There are design aspects that are distinctively firefox.
 
Jodell88 said:
I see nothing wrong with it. They just moved the button to the right side and gave the tabs a curve.
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There's a lot of changes under the hood that affect the ability to customize. I couldn't care less how it ships by default as long as I can change it. It's questionable how changeable V25 is. I've used Firefox longer than it was called Firefox, but I may be dumping it for... Something. The only other Gecko browser that isn't a rebadged Firefox is Seamonkey. I use that as my i2p browser, but I need to see what tricks it can do.
 
I'm using the UX branch right now. The biggest thing that they've changed is the menu. It looks like it was designed for touch. With that said, no big deal for me.

Oh and it doesn't look like chrome.
 
Jodell88 said:
I'm using the UX branch right now. The biggest thing that they've changed is the menu. It looks like it was designed for touch. With that said, no big deal for me.

Oh and it doesn't look like chrome.
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This...

On its Add-ons blog, Mozilla last week discussed “Australis” – a major theme revamp with an objective to simplify the user interface. In this vein, there is a discussion of removing the Add-on Bar completely, killing user-created custom toolbars, and having the main toolbar feature a dedicated area for add-on buttons and widgets instead.

Mozilla warned Firefox add-on developers of the following:

Overall, you should plan for a minimalistic toolbar UI. While most add-ons do this already, it’s possible that the API to add toolbar buttons will be very different, and there will be changes to be made for all of them.
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Can't be reconciled with this...

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Jodell88 said:
I'm using the UX branch right now. The biggest thing that they've changed is the menu. It looks like it was designed for touch. With that said, no big deal for me.

Oh and it doesn't look like chrome.
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How come that desktop OSes and programs are designed for touch screens, I don't get it especially because the tablets and phones are still getting different versions for mobile os and removed features.
They exclusively also can't execute desktop programs so I really don't know why they are doing this.
 
Sheep221 said:
How come that desktop OSes and programs are designed for touch screens, I don't get it especially because the tablets and phones are still getting different versions for mobile os and removed features.
They exclusively also can't execute desktop programs so I really don't know why they are doing this.
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Savings from having just 1 product line to develop and support.
 
I hope I can still use the Firefox 3 Theme for Firefox 4+ 2.0.1 with this new version. I prefer the older, simpler look of V3 interface in Firefox.
 
So first Opera messes the design of their browser first and Firefox has to follow? WTF? I can see myself switching to IE at some point - it's piece of shit, but every page works in it, and it has so few features there's nothing to screw up. It also has nonexistant GUI, so that cannot be molested either.
 
As long as Zotero still functions inside the browser, I'm ok. I'm a little nervous about the demand for UI simplification (i.e. feature removal).
 
Octopuss said:
So first Opera messes the design of their browser first and Firefox has to follow? WTF? I can see myself switching to IE at some point - it's piece of shit, but every page works in it, and it has so few features there's nothing to screw up. It also has nonexistant GUI, so that cannot be molested either.
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I have similar feeling that crashfest IE is only browser that doesn't completely suck.

I'm using Opera and IE parallel to each other. I was avid FF user since its debut, but I got rid of it last year because every new update(version in that sense) instead of improving something, always brought some new bugs and malfunctions.
 
Not sure about this either. It could be good, i just hope that it is as efficient as before and is not a step backwards and hopefully some of the stuff can be rolled back if you'd like.
 
I will stick with whatever the latest normal Opera version would be for as long as possible, but at some point (unless they listen to the users) the switch will be unavoidable. I am seriously scared. It might be a year from now, who knows. But it won't all THAT long.
 
thank you for the heads up.

I've just disabled automatic updates on firefox. I'll stick with an outdated version regardless of security risk to avoid that horrible horrible design.
 
the loss of the custom bookmark toolbar is a TOTAL DISASTER.

I have tons of bookmarks and folders with nested bookmarks there. I cannot be efficient without them... what are they thinking??
 
colonelciller said:
thank you for the heads up.

I've just disabled automatic updates on firefox. I'll stick with an outdated version regardless of security risk to avoid that horrible horrible design.
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I'm on 23 now. When I hit 24 I'm gonna pin it so it doesn't go any farther. 24 will be an lts release anyway, so it'll be good for awhile. What I'll do is download 25 from Mozilla, and run it from the folder and see if the removed features can be hacked back in place, either with config or addons.
 
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