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The UI is kinda sucky and for some reason every couple years they insist in switching the location of basic things like the refresh button, favorites, etc. 56

The UI is kinda sucky and for some reason every couple years they insist in switching the location of basic things like the refresh button, favorites, etc. 56 was already fast for me, didn't noticed much difference but it's a good thing they woke up and started doing the work instead of all talk and fuzzy feelings about other personal agendas.

vorotato 9y ago
If it was fast it was because your machine is single core. Honestly to the average user it was unusable for a very long time.
hutzlibu 9y ago
They didn't woke up. Long term work finally sold off ...
scrooched_moose 9y ago
I don't like the new default interface at all, but at least it's mostly customizeable without addons. I changed to the "light" theme, disabled animations (toolkit.cosmeticAnimations.enabled;false), turned the title bar back on, turned off all of the pocket/highlights junk on the new tab window, and changed the density to "compact". I like the experience now, except for the square tabs really bug me.
- acqq 9y ago
  I can't make it to show a dropdown arrow in the URL box like any normal dropdown would, at the far right of the box, always at the same place. They moved the arrow to somewhere randomly in the middle, depending on the icons inside of the URL box. Somehow these icons are more importan to them? It seems their developers don't use that arrow? Or is it because Chrome doesn't have it? I'm not using Chrome, but it seems the FF developers do, if true.
nothis 9y ago
I miss Tab Mix Plus (pleeeease make a web extension version!) but Firefox is one of the few open software projects which actually puts a ton of effort into interface design and I can appreciate that. I clicked on the wrong side maybe twice but I do get why you'd put the refresh button to the left side, if nothing else, to establish a common interface language with how Chrome and Edge do it. They have smart UI guys and even if they can still fuck up here and there you can really feel they're taking this seriously and the result is a browser experience that doesn't feel like whatever the UI-equivalent of "programmer art" is.
bobajeff 9y ago
Yeah, you said it. I don't know who is in charge of changing the theme and UI every major release but this time they've out done themselves. I don't usually like to customize but it's mandatory now.

vorotato 9y ago

If it was fast it was because your machine is single core. Honestly to the average user it was unusable for a very long time.

hutzlibu 9y ago

They didn't woke up. Long term work finally sold off ...

scrooched_moose 9y ago

I don't like the new default interface at all, but at least it's mostly customizeable without addons. I changed to the "light" theme, disabled animations (toolkit.cosmeticAnimations.enabled;false), turned the title bar back on, turned off all of the pocket/highlights junk on the new tab window, and changed the density to "compact". I like the experience now, except for the square tabs really bug me.

acqq 9y ago
I can't make it to show a dropdown arrow in the URL box like any normal dropdown would, at the far right of the box, always at the same place. They moved the arrow to somewhere randomly in the middle, depending on the icons inside of the URL box. Somehow these icons are more importan to them? It seems their developers don't use that arrow? Or is it because Chrome doesn't have it? I'm not using Chrome, but it seems the FF developers do, if true.

nothis 9y ago

I miss Tab Mix Plus (pleeeease make a web extension version!) but Firefox is one of the few open software projects which actually puts a ton of effort into interface design and I can appreciate that. I clicked on the wrong side maybe twice but I do get why you'd put the refresh button to the left side, if nothing else, to establish a common interface language with how Chrome and Edge do it. They have smart UI guys and even if they can still fuck up here and there you can really feel they're taking this seriously and the result is a browser experience that doesn't feel like whatever the UI-equivalent of "programmer art" is.

bobajeff 9y ago

Yeah, you said it. I don't know who is in charge of changing the theme and UI every major release but this time they've out done themselves. I don't usually like to customize but it's mandatory now.