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> Colorways are just the start of a dialogue of our expression of Firefox, what we believe the experience of using the independent browser should be and could b
by noahtallen 5y ago
> Colorways are just the start of a dialogue of our expression of Firefox, what we believe the experience of using the independent browser should be and could be.
Though, I’m not sure this is the beginning of allowing users to customize Firefox :p
For example, Firefox color already exists: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefox-color/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefox-color.... It allows for a lot of custom colors across the Firefox UI. It’s even official and easy to use! Not sure why it’s not built in honestly.
Plus, editing the base stylesheet for Firefox used to be very common and allowed for even more flexibility.
I’m a huge fan of making color themes very easy to use and modify. So I hope this feature allows for complete customization rather than just picking from a few pre-defined swaths. Otherwise, it’s kind of missing the mark on the bit about letting users choose their own environment for the web.
> These Colorways are here for the next two product releases (they won’t go away if you’ve selected it). This is a limited-time release which is intended to embrace the “now moment.”
I find this odd. They are changing the options every few releases to increase engagement. I don’t get why that’s important for this feature. Why not just add new ones? It doesn’t seem very user friendly.
So. It’s cool! But I’m worried it’s more about making Firefox trendy than about giving users power.
Edit: I tried it out, and unfortunately there is no user-customization. And I don't even enjoy most of the "colorways"! Where are the blue colors, for example?
- jamesgeck0 5y agoIt's disappointing to me that they didn't just ship Firefox Color as a built-in addon. They could have even made all these colorways default theme choices.
- mixmastamyk 5y agoWhat makes people think that individual apps should be snowflakes instead of theming the whole desktop?
- jamesgeck0 5y agoHaving a default theme that follows the system is great. But browsers allow running different different windows as different profiles with different cookies and credentials, and being able to tell those profiles apart at a glance is an important use case for web developers.
- Y_Y 5y agoWouldn't it be great if that "dialogue" encompassed the broad disapproval as expressed here.