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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 Kunasou on Sunday April 20 2014, @08:07PM

    by Kunasou (4148) on Sunday April 20 2014, @08:07PM (#33700)

    I found this on a blog: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cla ssicthemerestorer/ [mozilla.org]
    I tried to use Australis but I didn't like it so I moved to Pale Moon. Maybe this extension makes me try Firefox again.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 20 2014, @09:43PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 20 2014, @09:43PM (#33730)

    ClassicThemeRestorer
    So far, you're one of the few guys I've seen in this thread who should be up-modded.

    Pale Moon
    Had you mentioned that that is Windoze-only, you would deserve a +5.

    More ideas (more Firefox forks):
    Iceweasel; IceCat; Abrowser (None ported to Windoze)
    We'll have to see what tack all of these take.

    The guy who mentioned the SeaMonkey suite is another who deserves up-mods.
    (Using the suite here since 2002 when it was called Mozilla; tried FF once ...meh.)

    -- gewg_

    • (Score: 1) by linuxrocks123 on Monday April 21 2014, @01:42AM

      by linuxrocks123 (2557) on Monday April 21 2014, @01:42AM (#33803) Journal

      Pale Moon is not Windows-only. I looked into it earlier today. The Linux builds are unofficial, but they're there.

      ---linuxrocks123

  • (Score: 1) by freesword on Monday April 21 2014, @01:20AM

    by freesword (1018) on Monday April 21 2014, @01:20AM (#33796)

    Oddly enough, the extensions are the main reason I am still a Firefox user. Particularly a few functional ones like adblock plus with it's element hiding helper add-on. and quickjava for one click enable/disable javascript. Unfortunately, it seems that an ever increasing percentage of my extensions are for undoing Mozilla's UI changes. This is a trend I am most definitely not happy with.

    When their latest abortion of a UI drops I plan to test it in a VM to preserve my existing browser install in case I can't fix it with extensions. I also plan on looking into any forks that maintain the classic UI and testing their support for extensions.

    Unfortunately, my options for functionality equal to what I get with FF extensions on linux seem somewhat limited. Unless I'm missing something.