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kef writes:
"The new Australis interface has finally landed in beta. Is this really a step forward or has the Mozilla user designers lost their mind once again? Sure, if you are ok with the default user interface and don't tweak it to suit your needs then the new UI is not too different from previous releases. But if you, like me, like to change the interface to suit your needs, then the new Australis UI will probably not rock your world, it certainly doesn't rock mine. I can no long get the stop/reload button out of the url bar, the forward/back buttons are locked next to the url bar and so on. Beta Sucks, anyone?"
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by spxero on Friday March 21 2014, @02:43PM
Is Firefox's UI broken? I don't think so. If there's one browser interface I can't stand, it's Chrome. For those of us that have 10+ tabs open at any time and move windows back and forth between screens, this tabs-in-the-window-title interfaces sucks. Tabs for me are like thoughts or tasks- they stay open until the task is complete or I've read the content that I wanted to read in the window. Sometimes these need to go to a secondary window so I can focus on a different task or use them for research. Not being able to move the window by grabbing the title bar and dragging to the second or third monitor is a real... drag.
<stupid rant>
This isn't related to the interface necessarily, but this push to constantly load content when opening the browser or new tabs is similarly stupid. My nine most visited sites as a thumbnail? Great. My six most visited with some ads, or refreshing the content on load? No.
</stupid rant>
(Score: 2, Informative) by FunPika on Friday March 21 2014, @02:53PM
If a Chrome window isn't maximized, it will give some additional area above the tabs to drag the window actually. Although if someone wanted to move a maximized Chrome window with several tabs open to another window I could see that being a bit more annoying.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by dublet on Friday March 21 2014, @03:21PM
Chrome doesn't really work well if you run it in a remote desktop. Its toolbar overlaps with the title bar. That isn't usually a problem, unless you have some stupid application that stupidly decides that a title bar is not just a title bar but a tab bar instead. Stupid Chrome.
"If anyone needs me, I'm in the angry dome. [dublet.org]"
(Score: 5, Interesting) by spxero on Friday March 21 2014, @05:50PM
That's kind of my point- I have multiple monitors running many programs, and if I use Chrome as a browser I can't leave it maximized if I want to use the title bar. As soon as it goes maximized the title bar is gone and makes moving the window impossible. Example: sometimes I'm browsing full-screen and find a bit of code or something to run. I like grabbing the title bar, moving it all the way to the left which defaults the program to taking up only half of the screen (on Windows). I can then do the same to the other program and essentially have a split-screen to run the commands while checking the site out at the same time. If I'm using Chrome, it's damn near impossible without leaving Chrome unmaximized or grabbing that little section next to the minimize button. In the end it's their program and their UI, but just because one company does something to their UI or UX doesn't make it better.
(Score: 3, Informative) by michealpwalls on Friday March 21 2014, @06:26PM
haha I love this community, you guys are the first group to feel my GUI pains!
I run with a very similar setup (Multiple monitors, many different programs running and tonnes of tabs in my browser window(s). I typically have many different browser windows, to organize my tabs.)
One thing that helps is the winFlag+arrow hotkeys..
You can pin a window to the left of the current Monitor (winFlag+leftArrow) and vice versa with the rightArrow and upArrows. win+downArrow minimizes the window and focuses the previously active window, much like alt+tab (But without the switcher GUI appearing in some random monitor LOL)
It's not an ideal solution, although it works somewhat.
(Score: 1) by spxero on Saturday March 22 2014, @02:57AM
I'll have to start doing the Win+Arrow - my biggest pain is getting a window half on one side, but because the other isn't an "edge" it doesn't fit perfectly there.
Plus, anything to keep hands on the keyboard and not use the mouse!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 22 2014, @03:49PM
Not to detract anything from your criticism of Chrome's UI, but as a solution to your problem you can use the win key in combination with the arrow keys to do the same as dragging to the right, top or left borders - win + left or right gives you the half screen window of the used direction and win + up maximizes. As a bonus, win + down minimizes. This works even with multiple monitors and is in fact a nicer way to use the functionality on the edge between both screen areas.
(Score: 1) by islisis on Friday March 21 2014, @04:46PM
i guess you are not on linux or you would know. for windows, try altdrag [google.com]. i often hide title bars, to maximise vertical space or whatever. alt+left click move, right click resize
(Score: 1) by spxero on Friday March 21 2014, @05:57PM
I do run Chromium on Linux, but my point still stands- when I grab the title bar from a window on one monitor to the next the window moves- with multiple tabs on Chrome/Chromium I have to grab the specific non-tabbed area. Just because Chrome does this doesn't make it a good thing.