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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 captain normal on Sunday April 20 2014, @09:57PM

    by captain normal (2205) on Sunday April 20 2014, @09:57PM (#33738)

    Except that Google also keeps changing it's UI every few months. For some reason the chrome development team keeps trying to push something called "Unity" in a poorly thought scheme to make the browser the same on a PC or tablet as on a phone or watch.
    I think all browser dev teams have caught this disease. In the last couple of years I've fired FF, Opera and Pale Moon. I still have IE on my machine, but refuse to use it. Mostly I just use Chrome. But if something with a simple GI like Chrome had a year ago, I'd jump on it.

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  • (Score: 2) by edIII on Sunday April 20 2014, @10:52PM

    by edIII (791) on Sunday April 20 2014, @10:52PM (#33758)

    I just wish they would concentrate the majority of their efforts on function and not form.

    *That* disease (Marketers and Execs were the ground zero monkey) of spending all your efforts on form is far more widespread on the Internet. You think I'm happy using Chrome? Lord no. I'm not a fan of Google, I just need to get my work done every day.

    Chrome is not perfect either. Every other day all the tabs will crash until I kill a single process (have to find it) and then it kills every Chrome process. Starting it back up allows me to restore everything without major incident.

    It's a travesty that Mozilla can't make a decent engine in FireFox. A travesty.

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