Hmmm, I think it needs more rounded corners and padding. - UI designer in 2026
this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2026
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Wtf are the symbols on the left?
- Display?
- Sparkles? (bookmark groups?)
- Star (bookmarks in the current ui)
- Time
FFS I miss drop down menus with text options instead of hieroglyphics.
Sparkles? (bookmark groups?)
Sparkles icon means stochastic parrot (already in current Firefox)
Thanks. And fuck. I guess you can remove it from the menus. So there's that. Relegate that shit to extensions if you have to.
I'm hoping this rewrite simplifies the ui code rather. The existing userstyle system is a headache to modify with the documentation being so scattered.
I'm thoroughly convinced UI designers are under the impression we cut ourselves on sharp corners.
in a few years they will suddenly forget it and it will be all sharp corners again
Bring back more drop shadows and skeuomorphism
I hope I can live enough to see that.
I just updated my Jetbrains Rider IDE and holy border radius batman.
Old Firefox looked perfectly fine. I don't know why they keep wasting so many resources on changing something that already worked.
Because aesthethics also change through the years. You have to make your product appealing to today's standards.
While this may be true for commercial products and services, Firefox was never supposed to be one.
Every software application Is a commercial product itself. The more appealing, the more users and thus relevance...
There is way too much white-space in this design. I'm tired of getting higher resolution displays only to lose that resolution to applications that get chunkier.
the old one is fine
i don't think the ui is your main problem, mozilla, but ok i guess.
I really hate the trend of people just randomly changing UI in apps for no apparent reason. It's just a pervasive problem at this point.
I'm far from an expert, but Ui design as a job seems to have a huge flaw were if you eventually make the "perfect Ui" you're suddenly out of a job.
So you're straight up punished for doing your job well and the only way to maintain a career is to just re-invent the wheel every so often and chase the trends of others doing the same thing so your Ui designs don't look "outdated"
You are correct. Unlike other teams design teams can be actually "done" at some point. But just like other teams design teams need to constantly produce something.
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Well, their main problem is attention. And we are looking at a news article right now.
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Looks identical to Opera browser theme.
Actually, I have round edges. The reason I still prefer Firefox is its squarish design looks more professional and authentic. Anyway Mozilla will never add any features that users wish to have but actively changes unnecessary things. Anyway good luck Mozilla!
No thank you. I like Firefox the way it is. I hate big changes for the sake of designers keeping their jobs changing my tools and workflow and making things ugly.
Right. My sentiments exactly. Hopefully this won't trickle its way into LibreWolf ...
Argh, yet another userchrome.css overhaul to do.
I don't like gaps, included rounded corners. Let me use all my screen space dammit
literally just fix bugs
Wow look at those default screenshots. They look horrible, what a mess.
A useless sidebar, a lot of mess in the homepage, stupid shit being pushed to you.
Everytime i install Firefox i need to do a huge config setup to remove all that useless crap
Guarantee you can turn off the sidebar. They already have this and it can be disabled. Why not use it for three seconds? I despise the Mozilla NGO stuff ruining Firefox but this is utterly benign. Dynamic colors are cute and fun.
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I prefer standardized OS wide appearances that are respected by all apps. The only skinning I want are Dark Modes or Mini Player modes (for media players).
This seems so out of place on every OS and DE I can think of.
bring back native styling!
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I really like it, I feel like it fixes some of the issues with groups and tabs looking a bit weird currently. Lol, I always like Firefox redesigns and really cannot understand how people go apeshit when that happens. I swear some people would use NetScape GUI if they could.
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Please don't AI...
Ultimately I just need Firefox to always support about:config, manifest v2 compatibility, and userChrome.css and userContent.css.
That said, usually changes like these break my extremely minimal redesign and configs I have on my desktop. So... boo, Mozilla, boo....
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oh please no. i fucking hate having to edit my userchrome on every updates..
again??? why????
Designers need a reason to exist. So instead of doing user surveys and making new, modular themes (so you can choose the redesign), they scrap everything every few years so they have something to do. Because apparently modularity is hard.
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