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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: 3, Informative) by michealpwalls on Friday March 21 2014, @06:01PM

    by michealpwalls (3920) on Friday March 21 2014, @06:01PM (#19396) Homepage Journal

    Yea, I tried them in every major browser and it's broken.. So I put the beta in a virtual machine and really, I don't see what the point is.

    You can see my dual-screen shot [tinypic.com] with FF28 running natively beside FF29 running in an XP guest... There's no screen real-estate saved and yet I have lost functionality..I have customized the "new" UI as much as possible to bring it back in line with my workflow. As you can see, it's nowhere near close and still takes up just as much space as it did before.

    With the old UI, individuals were left in control of how they wanted their browser to look. You could drag individual controls virtually anywhere, including the search address bars themselves..Now we've lost those basic abilities and are stuck with a very Google Chrome-looking GUI.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 22 2014, @12:00AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 22 2014, @12:00AM (#19535)

    It's no wonder that it takes as much space as the previous version, if you disable the space-saving features (placing the tabs in the title bar and hiding the bookmarks bar)

    • (Score: 1) by michealpwalls on Monday March 24 2014, @07:38PM

      by michealpwalls (3920) on Monday March 24 2014, @07:38PM (#20464) Homepage Journal

      I don't mean to be pedantic, but I did not disable any "space saving feature" I in fact re-enabled a convenient feature called the Bookmarks Bar... Taking away a useful feature is not a "space saving feature":

      I put two screen-shots together so you can see.. The only "space-saving" was the removal of the Bookmarks Bar. Using all the old UI with a Bookmarks Bar hanging from both, there is absolutely no difference in vertical size.

      Except for the fact that it now looks shamelessly identical to Google's Chrome, I miss the point entirely:
      Iceweasel v24.3.0 and Firefox 29 Beta on Debian Wheezy 7.4 [tinypic.com]