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I've been happy with everything about Firefox (on Xubuntu) from many years now. But when they released Quantum, the thing that bothered me a bit was not any fea

I've been happy with everything about Firefox (on Xubuntu) from many years now. But when they released Quantum, the thing that bothered me a bit was not any feature or performance, but them removing curvy tabs for rectangular ones. Rather shallow of me, but we all have our UI quirks :). Luckily, Firefox UI is very customizable and somebody had already put in the effort [1] to provide curvy tabs. Just had to download it, change the RGB() values therein, and got back my preferred green curvy tabs. Just a silly thing, but might give somebody one more reason to switch to Firefox. [1]: https://github.com/wilfredwee/photon-australis https://github.com/wilfredwee/photon-australis

speg 7y ago
Not silly at all. I tried getting back into Firefox on macOS after Quantum but it still didn’t sit well with me. I just felt slightly out of place. Fast forward to last week and I happened to try it again and it looked real nice! The UI seemed smoother and less jarring than before. Plus the icon was new and slick. Not sure when those changes landed but just the look and feel give me more confidence in its solidness.
- Ntrails 7y ago
  Never in my life has a slick new icon been a positive factor when assessing software. I just do not get it.
el_programmador 7y ago
Similar thing with me except I stuck up with them even with Quantum until that fiasco with SSL certs happened and all extensions came to a halt. I'll never be able to trust a browser which does such a thing to its users.
- prophesi 7y ago
  A bug which they rolled out a fix for in, what, a few hours?
  - wizzwizz4 7y ago
    That fix was a hack, pushed out using a system that never should've been used for such things. A proper fix would've been re-signing the cert, but that took a lot longer. I can't really think of a better approach they could've taken, though, if re-signing the certificate wasn't something they could've done straight away.

speg 7y ago

Not silly at all. I tried getting back into Firefox on macOS after Quantum but it still didn’t sit well with me. I just felt slightly out of place. Fast forward to last week and I happened to try it again and it looked real nice! The UI seemed smoother and less jarring than before. Plus the icon was new and slick. Not sure when those changes landed but just the look and feel give me more confidence in its solidness.

Ntrails 7y ago
Never in my life has a slick new icon been a positive factor when assessing software. I just do not get it.

el_programmador 7y ago

Similar thing with me except I stuck up with them even with Quantum until that fiasco with SSL certs happened and all extensions came to a halt. I'll never be able to trust a browser which does such a thing to its users.

prophesi 7y ago
A bug which they rolled out a fix for in, what, a few hours?
- wizzwizz4 7y ago
  That fix was a hack, pushed out using a system that never should've been used for such things. A proper fix would've been re-signing the cert, but that took a lot longer. I can't really think of a better approach they could've taken, though, if re-signing the certificate wasn't something they could've done straight away.