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?"
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 21 2014, @05:24PM
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
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 22 2014, @12:04AM
How you tried maximizing the window? It *does* reduce the vertical space used. Myth confirmed.