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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 20 2014, @10:09PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 20 2014, @10:09PM (#33743)

    first opera changes to chrome
    Opera abandoned their own Presto rendering engine and switched to WebKit.

    Fewer species makes for a less-healthy ecosystem; look at how many folks were using OpenSSL and all got caught with their butts in the breeze.
    Genetic diversity is a Good Thing(tm).

    A while back, Maxthon (originally MyIE2) switched from M$'s Trident engine to WebKit[1].
    It's a bit of a trend.

    and now firefox too?
    The feel has changed, but it's still Gecko underneath.
    Kunasou, down in the thread, pointed to a fix for the UI.

    a fork
    That was covered by Kunasou as well.
    My response to him has options for Linux users.

    [1] On the plus side, Maxthon is now cross-platform.

    -- gewg_