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Firefox Australis is Now Available in Beta.

posted by LaminatorX on Friday March 21 2014, @02:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the keeping-designers-busy dept.

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: 2, Insightful) by tierack on Friday March 21 2014, @03:20PM

    by tierack (810) on Friday March 21 2014, @03:20PM (#19339)

    I've been using Australis for a couple of months now and there are two things I really like about it:

    1. The window chrome is more compact, so there's more room for the actual stuff I care about: the page
    2. The UI for the tabs looks nicer.

    Admittedly, I don't do much customization of the UI, but that's because I don't really use the chrome UI. It's all keyboard and context menus for me. I'm happy to see everything that's not the page I'm looking at get smaller.

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 21 2014, @05:24PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 21 2014, @05:24PM (#19384)

    Bullshit. Myth busted. [imgur.com] Without a menu bar, it takes up as many pixels as the old interface and shows less information; the rounded tabs cuts off the page title "Soylent news is pe..." where with the old square tabs the whole title fits. WITH the menu bar it gets even worse, the rounded tab still cuts off titles and now takes up more precious vertical pixels.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by tierack on Friday March 21 2014, @06:52PM

      by tierack (810) on Friday March 21 2014, @06:52PM (#19415)
      That's not the case on OS X [imgur.com]. The new version is more compact vertically.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 22 2014, @12:04AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 22 2014, @12:04AM (#19538)

      How you tried maximizing the window? It *does* reduce the vertical space used. Myth confirmed.