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Firefox UI is incredibly frustrating,so I made it like the old days of Chrome
- schleck8 5y agoI don't know about that. Seems like it only tweaked the UI, not the UX, and i find the official one more visually appealing.
- megous 5y agoOfficial UI style is a complete garbage. They killed the most common thing that I as user need to do, and that's quickly identifying which tab is active. It doesn't stand out at all (default style after creating a new profile): https://megous.com/dl/tmp/2eddfc6ed4ebe129.png https://megous.com/dl/tmp/2eddfc6ed4ebe129.png No background difference, nothing. It's not visible when I set monitor to low brightness during the night. Most installable themes are similarly non-distinct. I had to go through install/uninstall loop of around 15 themes before finding one that has strong contrast on the selected tab: https://megous.com/dl/tmp/3571258bbc86a7db.png https://megous.com/dl/tmp/3571258bbc86a7db.png That's what happens when things have to look pretty, instead of being usable.
- sciurus 5y agoIn your screenshot the active tab is easily distinguished to me. It has a border around it and appears raised above the other tabs.
- jmnicolas 5y agoAny chance you would share which theme it ils?
- megous 5y agohttps://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/retro-console-dark-red/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/retro-console... Even better now, with OP's CSS: https://megous.com/dl/tmp/35a017ef1685a7ac.png https://megous.com/dl/tmp/35a017ef1685a7ac.png Now just some way to decrease the height of the tab bar, and I'm happy again.
- jmnicolas 5y agoThanks.
- stronglikedan 5y agoAgreed, the active tab should be a different color, so it can be distinguished at a glance, without wasting brain cycles. But they also ruined the window itself in a similar way. It no longer honors the OS theme, so I can't have the title bar be a different color for the focused window. Another waste of brain cycles trying to figure out which window I'm in. Maddening. I went back to Chrome when they did this a few releases ago. That, and the fact that I have to drill down into submenus for common tasks that should be available on the main menus.
- corentin88 5y agoCurious about facechance.com? No Wikipedia entry, so the website is relatively new or not famous. The about page is clueless [1]. And the linked founder’s profile page [2] is useless. Is this a scam? [1] http://facechance.com/about/ http://facechance.com/about/ [2] http://facechance.com/bingge http://facechance.com/bingge
- mygoodaccount 5y agoScam? Or HN design iconoclast?
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- dspillett 5y agoSomeone somewhere thinks it is ropey, as it is in the DNS-based blocklist(s) our office subscribes too (via CloudFlair's DNS service IIRC).
- tux3 5y agoRelated submissions by the author of this site (showdead on): https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=lovefeature https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=lovefeature Make of that what you will.
- huntermeyer 5y agoFF's horrible bookmark interface is what has kept me away from it.
- SilasX 5y agoUnfortunately, you can’t tweak it to customize the keyboard shortcuts. For any extension (due to the post-2016 API), the changes only take effect for a given tab after the tab has loaded. Which excludes reloading. So there will be noticeable lags where they don’t work.
- megous 5y agoGreat, nice trick with the perspective transform! Thanks!