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What's New in Firefox Post-Australis

posted by janrinok on Sunday April 20 2014, @06:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the love-it-or-hate-it dept.

The Mighty Buzzard writes:

The long expected, and often dreaded, Australis user interface for Firefox will have become fact a couple weeks from now. For those of us who don't immediately jump back to the last ESR build without it, rage quit web browsing entirely, start using lynx in protest, or just say fork it, Martin Brinkmann over at Ghacks has an interesting writeup on further UI changes being proposed. The only thing I found interesting are the changes proposed for the context menu but, as always, your mileage may vary.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by black6host on Sunday April 20 2014, @07:47PM

    by black6host (3827) on Sunday April 20 2014, @07:47PM (#33687) Journal

    So what IS new in Australis? That doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere, though we do get a link to what will possibly be new -after- Australis.

    (From the article: "Mozilla on the other hand is already thinking about Firefox's future. A new set of design mockups have been released recently that show other areas of the browser that could receive a design overhaul in the future.")

  • (Score: 1) by black6host on Sunday April 20 2014, @07:59PM

    by black6host (3827) on Sunday April 20 2014, @07:59PM (#33694) Journal

    Uh, never mind. I misread the title. Mea culpa.

  • (Score: 2) by forsythe on Sunday April 20 2014, @08:10PM

    by forsythe (831) on Sunday April 20 2014, @08:10PM (#33702)

    I dunno - what was new in Firefox 28? According to the changelog, we got

    Mac OS X: Notification Center support for web notifications
    Horizontal HTML5 audio/video volume control

    some UI things,

    Support for Opus in WebM
    VP9 video decoding implemented

    integration of new codecs,

    Now that spdy/3 is implemented support for spdy/2 has been removed and servers without spdy/3 will negotiate to http/1 without any penalty

    removal of new "old" code,

    Support for multi-line flexbox in layout
    Support for MathML 2.0 'mathvariant' attribute
    Background thread hang reporting

    these were all listed under "Developer", so I assume this is how they break extensions this week, and

    an obligatory security fix.

    Not to be too cynical, but it looks like some UI components got shuffled around, somebody pulled the latest codec updates (from Google), somebody else pulled the latest spdy updates (from Google), extensions were broken, and somebody else pulled a security researcher's patch. For Australis' ChangeLog to be "A LOT of UI components got shuffled around" would seem to be par for the course.