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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 tangomargarine on Monday April 21 2014, @02:36PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Monday April 21 2014, @02:36PM (#33984)

    It's not the same thing as /.Beta either.

    Being a different brand of rotten from one rotten thing is better how?

    I see it as being as close and dense as you can get without directly going to full screen mode.

    I don't understand why everybody has a hard-on for fullscreen either. For desktops/laptops, we've got plenty of screen space anyway. I've never really understood why games generally fullscreen themselves either...in shooters maybe, okay, but Civ 2 was the last windowed Civ I think.

    What I am more concerned about right now is that I don't run FireFox because it fucking blows. It's the worst performing browser out there with no stability.

    Yeah, you might have a point about stability.

    I thought you had questioned why anyone would bother using Firefox somewhere, but I guess I'm just imagining things. Anyway: Plugins. Plugins plugins plugins! From what I'm seen Chrome's widgets aren't allowed to interact with the browser enough to accomplish much of anything of consequence. Maybe that's changed in the last few years, though.

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  • (Score: 1) by urza9814 on Monday April 21 2014, @11:35PM

    by urza9814 (3954) on Monday April 21 2014, @11:35PM (#34207) Journal

    I don't understand why everybody has a hard-on for fullscreen either. For desktops/laptops, we've got plenty of screen space anyway.

    Not vertically we sure as hell don't! I was shopping for a new laptop just last month. Couldn't find a single one with even as much vertical resolution as a freakin' 12 year old dirt cheap Dell desktop.

    Personally, I've been using this since it was first announced in the nightly, and I love it. Condense the UI, spread it out horizontally a bit more, and let me use the full vertical real-estate for the website I'm actually using.

    • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday April 22 2014, @04:28PM

      by tangomargarine (667) on Tuesday April 22 2014, @04:28PM (#34437)

      I use a vertical tab bar more for the fact that you can fit in like twice the tabs (legibly!) that way and I'm a tabaholic. It's a bit weird though if I want two windows side-by-side, even at 1680x1050.

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