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Firefox plans to remove large URL bar
- peter_l_downs 6y agoAre there mockups of what it will look like instead? If this is getting rid of the enlargement effect when the URL bar is focused, good riddance
- drannex 6y agoOne of the first things I do with my userChrome.css is remove all of those effects.
- deft 6y agoHope so, that was a horrible update and I had to mess around with custom css to get rid of it. Not even sure the point, no other design system uses components like that. Click it and it gets bigger with a shadow like a floating window? What were they thinking?
- StavrosK 6y agoDoes anyone have a screenshot or video of that? It gets a lot of hate here but I've either never seen it or never noticed it...
- Jaxkr 6y agoThis page has images of both the inflated and normal size address bar: https://www.userchrome.org/megabar-styling-firefox-address-bar.html https://www.userchrome.org/megabar-styling-firefox-address-b...
- StavrosK 6y agoThank you, it turns out I just didn't even notice it.
- breakfastduck 6y agoThe bar enlarging drives me absolutely mad. I hate it. It's crazy to me how you couldn't have noticed it. I always find little quirks like this funny. Human minds ey.
- StavrosK 6y agoHaha but it barely just gets a border! Maybe because I use a dark theme? When you say "enlarging", do you mean the drop down showing? Or the extra border?
- aendruk 6y agoYeah I don't get it. It's the same as half the text fields on the web that get a border when focused. e.g. https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.0/forms/form-control/ https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.0/forms/form-control/
- breakfastduck 6y agoExtra border! Drives me mad!
- cube00 6y agoThe raw cake batter analogy felt unnecessarily snarky.
- thatguy0900 6y agoIt didn't read that way to me, he has already tried to explain it without an analogy
- ncmncm 6y agoThere is a history. First, you are told, "It's too early to complain about this, it's not finished." Then, "It's too late to complain about this, we are already committed." Standard corporate management political tactics, promoted to your browser.
- thinkingemote 6y agoFirefox also has a history of then saying "don't complain, we will replace this with a new API in the future, come back then" and then silently never does anything
- boomboomsubban 6y agoThe most recent post says the work on the address bar has barely begun, and I don't see where it says they will remove anything.
- butz 6y agohttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1698656#c2 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1698656#c2
- pkamb 6y agoHow about a big, multi-line URL text field on mobile browsers? Can't stand horizontal scrolling to the beginning or end of the line to change a domain or parameter. Let me edit in multi-line mode when I tap on the URL.
- elastolin 6y agoThis is actually a great idea, and it shouldn't be too hard to implement.
- GekkePrutser 6y agoThis is indeed a problem. Especially the last character is really hard to target because it coincides with the end of the field. Or always takes me several frustrated tries.
- draw_down 6y agoBugzilla is so awful. What value does it provide, to show a "comment" for every single time someone marked this bug as depending on another? Just list the dependencies at the top or something.
- jancsika 6y ago> Yes but when the cake batter breaks something else its needs to be reported if for nothing else than to just bring attention to the breakage. many times little changes cause an issue and by the time its reported can be lost. to dismiss as invalid seems radical and defeats the purpose of having a dev build. Reminds me of the Mitch Hedberg punchline which I've probably used elsewhere... Man, I shoulda just said, "Yeah."
- zaphirplane 6y agoWhat’s the joke, a bit of a fan of his style in small doses. There is video of one of his shows where he bombs out and jokes about bombing with the audience.
- newscracker 6y agoFirefox is dead. Was dead for a long time. I won’t bother with it again after all these death-by-a-thousand-cuts changes and the way the CEO is handling things at Mozilla. I’m using <insert another browser name here>, and even though it has <insert several drawbacks and user hostile functionality here>, it’s not as dysfunctional or frustrating as Firefox is. Did you hear about that 17-year old bug that was fixed recently in Firefox? You gotta say something about Firefox and priorities. /s (stands for sarcasm, if someone isn’t familiar with this notation) Have I captured the essence of forthcoming comments above? - Sincerely, a Firefox supporter who so far disagrees with some individual decisions but nevertheless will use and support its use
- marakv2 6y agoAgree. But for fucks sake, Firefox I'll still use you, but each update I'm more disappointed. I still use you due to a lack of a better option. That's it.
- flemhans 6y agoWhat happened to the AwesomeBar?
- thinkingemote 6y agoMozilla really needs to pivot Firefox to be the power users browser. Ensure that the early adopters, the geeks, the developers want to use it. Specialise.
- tweetle_beetle 6y agoThis always gets brought up, but if they do that their search revenue goes down. They're locked into competing over the mass market with Chrome, because that's where the money comes from. How many power users use the default search engine in Firefox and willingly click on Google ads? I think it's safe to say it's a tiny fraction compared to the average user. How many power users would be willing to fund a specialist browser out of their own pockets? That's a good question, but I don't think we'll have a scenario to find out any time soon.
- maverick74 6y agoI would - somehow... - integrate the URL bar (and a few buttons) into the Tabs themselves (not the tab strip, but into the tab itself) and get rid of yet another toolbar. i would also move bookmarks bar above the tabs...