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Firefox changing its tab design

41 points by rammy1234 6y ago

syamilmj 6y ago
Not loving where this is going. FF on iOS was great, with icon showing the number of tabs I have opened unlike Safari. Please translate that sensible UI choices into your desktop version too.
dzhiurgis 6y ago
With the very subtle shade of gray make it seem like second tab is active. On poor screen quality one wouldn't be able to see the difference.
- coldtea 6y ago
  >With the very subtle shade of gray make it seem like second tab is active Well, the new design has more contrast on active vs inactive tab than the old one
siproprio 6y ago
Is this for real, or just a late april 1st joke or something?
- maverick74 6y ago
  Yeah, mate! You bet it's for real!!! :(
mastrsushi 6y ago
Is this really something to complain about? More so than the outdated performance of SpiderMonkey? Or Servo, the vaporware render engine. FireWhat?
nononoyes 6y ago
What in the actual fuck. Does mozilla have spare, bored interface designers or something? They keep changing stuff for no reason. Mostly it’s fine, but making tabs look like buttons? Why would you even consider that? If this is real I’m ditching ff forever, chrome monopoly here we come!
remram 6y ago
Thankfully the Firefox UI is easy to customize, through userChrome.css. I personally haven't seen Firefox's tab bar in years, since I have replaced it with Tree-Style Tabs (vertical, in side bar).
- anakaine 6y ago
  Unfortunately "user customisation" should not be an answer to a poor design decision that affects all users, including the vast majority who don't have the skill, time, or knowledge available to customise such things.
ergot_vacation 6y ago
Once again my decision to manually block updates has paid off in spades. I can't remember the last time a new FF feature was one anyone actually wanted. People only use FF now because Chrome and...well let's be honest it's just Chrome, is even worse.
- CodeGlitch 6y ago
  What about security updates?
coldtea 6y ago
>Why did you put elevated rectangles instead of tabs there? With shadows? Obviously because they want to follow the "neumorphism" 2021 design trend...

41 points by rammy1234 6y ago

Not loving where this is going. FF on iOS was great, with icon showing the number of tabs I have opened unlike Safari. Please translate that sensible UI choices into your desktop version too.

dzhiurgis 6y ago

With the very subtle shade of gray make it seem like second tab is active. On poor screen quality one wouldn't be able to see the difference.

coldtea 6y ago
>With the very subtle shade of gray make it seem like second tab is active Well, the new design has more contrast on active vs inactive tab than the old one

siproprio 6y ago

Is this for real, or just a late april 1st joke or something?

maverick74 6y ago
Yeah, mate! You bet it's for real!!! :(

mastrsushi 6y ago

Is this really something to complain about? More so than the outdated performance of SpiderMonkey? Or Servo, the vaporware render engine. FireWhat?

nononoyes 6y ago

What in the actual fuck. Does mozilla have spare, bored interface designers or something? They keep changing stuff for no reason. Mostly it’s fine, but making tabs look like buttons? Why would you even consider that? If this is real I’m ditching ff forever, chrome monopoly here we come!

remram 6y ago

Thankfully the Firefox UI is easy to customize, through userChrome.css. I personally haven't seen Firefox's tab bar in years, since I have replaced it with Tree-Style Tabs (vertical, in side bar).

anakaine 6y ago
Unfortunately "user customisation" should not be an answer to a poor design decision that affects all users, including the vast majority who don't have the skill, time, or knowledge available to customise such things.

ergot_vacation 6y ago

Once again my decision to manually block updates has paid off in spades. I can't remember the last time a new FF feature was one anyone actually wanted. People only use FF now because Chrome and...well let's be honest it's just Chrome, is even worse.

CodeGlitch 6y ago
What about security updates?

coldtea 6y ago

>Why did you put elevated rectangles instead of tabs there? With shadows? Obviously because they want to follow the "neumorphism" 2021 design trend...