A new-look Firefox is on the way, with Mozilla designers working on a 'Nova' redesign that introduces more curves and colour. First reported by tech
  • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
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    6 days ago

    Damn, that looks absurdly ugly and even more like a foreign object on the desktop.

    I hope this usability nightmare can be completely disabled or toned down so the browser looks like a native program compared to the rest of my programs.

  • Tim_Bisley@piefed.socialEnglish
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    21 days ago

    It’s wild to me how UI developers just can’t let things be. Certain elements are timeless and just work. Why do you feel you have to reinvent the wheel every few years?

    • Squizzy@lemmy.world
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      21 days ago

      Microsoft had an undo/redo buttom. It became the undo/dropdown, whatnisnin the dropdown? Redo.

      It just added an extra click. That is all

  • Prinz Kasper@feddit.org
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    21 days ago

    I kinda like it. But yeah, I’d prefer them to focus more on catching up on features like HDR support, or newer CSS features like anchor positioning…

      • unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml
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        20 days ago

        If you want specific tasks for designers, here are some:

        1. Expand and reorganize Preferences
        2. Add an actual page for history with dates and times, filter, grouping, etc.
        3. Add an actual page for bookmarks
        4. Add a profiles button to easily switch between them

        All of these require intensive input from designers and are a net-positive improvement, as opposed to the 4th redesign of the exact same scope.

    • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
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      6 days ago

      Heavy tweaking of Firefox UI (fortunately userChrome.css and user.js are still available, even if hidden in undocumented about:config options), heavy tweaking of labwc, using a custom labwc theme, tweaked GTK theme.

      Window resized to get it all in one readable screenshot.

      • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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        6 days ago

        Ah that’s a good one too. I like the tabs. After my postings, I did some changes since then. Will do some further adjustments to the tabs. Iike its taking the full height of the tab row. The main thing I changed is having only one Bookmark folder in Bookmarks Toolbar, and put it in the same line as the tabs as a menu.