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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: 2) by Marand on Sunday April 20 2014, @11:50PM

    by Marand (1081) on Sunday April 20 2014, @11:50PM (#33781) Journal

    Potentially millions of hours wasted to adapt oneself. If adaptation is even possible.

    Adaptation is definitely possible. I'll be forcing the UI to "adapt" itself back to what I find useful via addons, just like I did with the last UI redesign they did. My Firefox looks nothing like the default, and I'm happy with that.

    Thanks to addons that allow moving, modifying, or replacing default UI bits, I ditched the menu bar, have a modified compact-menu instead of the default menu buttons, put the tabs vertically along the right side, and have drop-down buttons for bookmarks.

    By the time this change lands in Debian (they keep non-ESR versions in experimental) there should be plenty of options to fix it, so I don't care if they keep chasing Chrome's bad decisions; it'll be fixable by the time I get stuck with it. Customisation is Firefox's best advantage against the other browsers and, sometimes, itself.

    The much lauded chrome, for example, failed miserably to let me keep its window above the others when I tried it out under avlinux, thanks to its non standard windows decorations.

    I'm not sure if this Chromium-specific or in the "proper" Chrome as well, but there's a setting for that in chrome:settings. Under "Appearance" there's a checkbox for "Use system title bar and borders". Doesn't make the browser itself any more usable, but it helps fix that specific issue.

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