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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: 3, Interesting) by Angry Jesus on Sunday April 20 2014, @09:56PM

    by Angry Jesus (182) on Sunday April 20 2014, @09:56PM (#33737)

    I think the new UI is fine, no big deal for most cases.

    I'm a lot more concerned with the new version of the sync protocol that is being rolled out with FF29.
    They now require an email address and that you send them a copy of your encryption key. They promise not to keep the key around, but we all know what a promise is worth nowadays.

    https://github.com/mozilla/fxa-auth-server/wiki/on epw-protocol [github.com]

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  • (Score: 1) by ButchDeLoria on Monday April 21 2014, @06:47AM

    by ButchDeLoria (583) on Monday April 21 2014, @06:47AM (#33871)

    The sync is also not complete shit now, though it doesn't have anything on Chrome's syncing capabilities.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 21 2014, @10:20AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 21 2014, @10:20AM (#33896)

      > The sync is also not complete shit now.

      Great, so they upgraded a honda to a bmw but now it has a permanent flat tire.

  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday April 21 2014, @02:44PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Monday April 21 2014, @02:44PM (#33989)

    If they don't retain the key, why the fuck would they need to ask you for it? Do they do an initial encryption of your user data or something?

    --
    "Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 21 2014, @04:29PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 21 2014, @04:29PM (#34029)

      Read the link to see their process, they have both a graphical flow chart and a step-by-step list, it is not hard to understand.

      There goal is to have something that is nominally easier to recover from losing your key.