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I'm the opposite. Chromes UI is awful. Doesn't scale for non-standard DPI screens, ghastly colour scheme, and the integrated Window decorations are primitive.

by nly 13y ago

I'm the opposite. Chromes UI is awful. Doesn't scale for non-standard DPI screens, ghastly colour scheme, and the integrated Window decorations are primitive. In KDE I can hide the FF window decorations, and it then uses no more real estate than Chrome, while still offering a better native UI. I'm just crossing my fingers that any UI changes in FF don't negatively impact us Linux users or drift too far away from native widgets.

hapless 13y ago
Right now, Firefox is the only browser on Linux that supports non-standard DPIs.
- emn13 13y ago
  It's not really any different on windows; chrome's UI there too isn't brilliant (I've got a high dpi screen). It's much better than a year ago, when everything was simply blurry, but it's still much worse than FF or IE.
Pxtl 13y ago
Exactly. I was fiddling with non-standard DPIs on my machine and I noticed that Chrome trainwrecks on them, and Firefox looks great. I get frustrated because all the people who complain about the new Ausrtalis UI seem to want to drag FF back to the oldschool Netscape/IE6-looking thing. I think FF's UI is in a perfect place in the current version - clean, crisp, and compact. My only complaint about current FF is the redundant "bookmark-star" button in the Address bar that I'm constantly accidentally clicking.
- cpeterso 13y ago
  Good news: Australis moves the bookmark star out of the address bar into the toolbar. You can then customize your toolbar to remove tha bookmark star button, if you like. I did. :)
  - zanny 13y ago
    I have the old style addon to put the bookmarks star back in the address bar, because the Australis bookmarks button comes with the bookmarks menu stuck to it, which I don't need, I have ctrl-b.
    - frandroid 13y ago
      Yeah, that's pretty silly. I mean I'm sure they had to implement new code to make this silly two-button Siamese construct exist. Is there even a designer in the house? At least give us the option to have just the Star.

by nly 13y ago

hapless 13y ago

Right now, Firefox is the only browser on Linux that supports non-standard DPIs.

emn13 13y ago
It's not really any different on windows; chrome's UI there too isn't brilliant (I've got a high dpi screen). It's much better than a year ago, when everything was simply blurry, but it's still much worse than FF or IE.

Pxtl 13y ago

Exactly. I was fiddling with non-standard DPIs on my machine and I noticed that Chrome trainwrecks on them, and Firefox looks great. I get frustrated because all the people who complain about the new Ausrtalis UI seem to want to drag FF back to the oldschool Netscape/IE6-looking thing. I think FF's UI is in a perfect place in the current version - clean, crisp, and compact. My only complaint about current FF is the redundant "bookmark-star" button in the Address bar that I'm constantly accidentally clicking.

cpeterso 13y ago
Good news: Australis moves the bookmark star out of the address bar into the toolbar. You can then customize your toolbar to remove tha bookmark star button, if you like. I did. :)
- zanny 13y ago
  I have the old style addon to put the bookmarks star back in the address bar, because the Australis bookmarks button comes with the bookmarks menu stuck to it, which I don't need, I have ctrl-b.
  - frandroid 13y ago
    Yeah, that's pretty silly. I mean I'm sure they had to implement new code to make this silly two-button Siamese construct exist. Is there even a designer in the house? At least give us the option to have just the Star.