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All I want is the ability to disable "Proton" (the tablet friendly, chock full of vertical white-space, and low contrast UI) and use version > 88's "Photon" de

All I want is the ability to disable "Proton" (the tablet friendly, chock full of vertical white-space, and low contrast UI) and use version > 88's "Photon" design. This was a simple about:config option but it only lasted for two releases. I know they want to 'modernize' the UI but I can't stand it. None of the css hacks I have come across so far work coherently, so I ended up downloading 88 and then disabling updates via polices.json. Also, to whomever thought Proton and Photon were good names for two versions right next to each other, it was a really bad choice to pick two particles that only differ by a single letter. Do you have any idea how easy it is to confuse the two? Especially when search engines try to guess what you were really looking for. It is extremely frustrating and I still mix the two up.

conradfr 5y ago
Yes I'm stuck on 90 for this reason.
strict9 5y ago
I struggled for days trying to eliminate proton ui to no avail. This is what finally worked (manual installation): https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix#installation-guide https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix#installation-gui...
dang 5y ago
Hey, please don't post stuff like that last bit to HN. Maybe you don't think you owe better to web designers you disagree with (though "fuck you" seems completely over the top), but you owe this community better if you're posting to it. It's all too easy for places like this to poison themselves to death, which is a fate we'd prefer to stave off if possible. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=stave%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
- BitwiseFool 5y ago
  My apologies, dang. I will refrain from doing so in the future. If I could go back and edit my comment I would do so. I guess one last thing I'd like to clarify is that I'm only curse-word-mad at the people who decided to pick the names "proton" and "photon" for two products released back to back. Not so much at the people who implemented them.
  - dang 5y ago
    > If I could go back and edit my comment I would do so. I've reopened it for editing if you still want to do that!
ectopod 5y ago
I expect no-one will see this comment, but anyway... I just installed 92 and the awful new tab bar has actually gotten worse since 91. The tab bar and toolbar now merge into a formless grey mass. According to my settings I'm using the default System Theme. "Follow the operating system setting for buttons, menus, and windows." Yet it ignores the system accent colour. To reiterate, the theme designed to follow the system colours now ignores the system colours and this is WONTFIX [1]. Though it does follow the system colours on other platforms. This is a special Windows annoyance introduced on purpose. A pox on them all! [1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1701266 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1701266

conradfr 5y ago

Yes I'm stuck on 90 for this reason.

strict9 5y ago

I struggled for days trying to eliminate proton ui to no avail. This is what finally worked (manual installation): https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix#installation-guide https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix#installation-gui...

dang 5y ago

Hey, please don't post stuff like that last bit to HN. Maybe you don't think you owe better to web designers you disagree with (though "fuck you" seems completely over the top), but you owe this community better if you're posting to it. It's all too easy for places like this to poison themselves to death, which is a fate we'd prefer to stave off if possible. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=stave%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

BitwiseFool 5y ago
My apologies, dang. I will refrain from doing so in the future. If I could go back and edit my comment I would do so. I guess one last thing I'd like to clarify is that I'm only curse-word-mad at the people who decided to pick the names "proton" and "photon" for two products released back to back. Not so much at the people who implemented them.
- dang 5y ago
  > If I could go back and edit my comment I would do so. I've reopened it for editing if you still want to do that!

ectopod 5y ago

I expect no-one will see this comment, but anyway... I just installed 92 and the awful new tab bar has actually gotten worse since 91. The tab bar and toolbar now merge into a formless grey mass. According to my settings I'm using the default System Theme. "Follow the operating system setting for buttons, menus, and windows." Yet it ignores the system accent colour. To reiterate, the theme designed to follow the system colours now ignores the system colours and this is WONTFIX [1]. Though it does follow the system colours on other platforms. This is a special Windows annoyance introduced on purpose. A pox on them all! [1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1701266 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1701266