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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 tftp on Sunday April 20 2014, @10:03PM
I am now running PaleMoon. It is a fork of FF, done a while ago by a single guy in Europe. Works and looks exactly as one of older FF builds without that fancy URL bar. All extensions work.
I did that after the well-known bout of political intolerance within Mozilla Corp. From that point on, I am no longer interested in Mozilla products, do not install them, and do not recommend them. I am not interested in UI changes either. It is not important. Often a compact GUI robs you of the wealth of controls that you can access directly. The IE for Metro/Modern is at the end of that road; I am not even sure what kind of a user it is designed for. I am glad that PaleMoon does not promise an upgrade treadmill with new versions shoved down your throat every couple of weeks. Maybe a few years from now I will look for updates; or maybe not.