I absolutely get the Mozilla hate. What I don't get is the dwindling numbers. I recently had to switch from Zen back to Firefox on my corporate laptop due to policy. Firefox really still is an excellent browser and would recommend it over Chrome. I occasionally have to open chrome and that's starting to feel more and more like explorer.

Why on EARTH did they move the FUCKING BACK BUTTON and replace it in its prior position with some FUCKING BULLSHIT USELESS sidebar button

If I give up and become a supervillain, my primary hand-to-hand combat weapon will be a copy of the Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines laser-etched onto stainless steel plates and somehow bound in a physicalized representation of the tattered remains of these peoples' abandoned dignity

@rhamph "The team that made it hopes it will help expand the browser’s audience beyond privacy-conscious techies and open-web or open source advocates[...]" For fucks sake, no. Thats firefoxes core audience and if anything they should be leaning into it more. Trying to lure normies will only drive away the core audience (we're already seeing this to an extent), And normies dont seem to care for anything that isnt ran by a company (if it is a carbon copy of what they're familiar with it's an irrelevent less popular knock off and if it's anything else that means it must be completely innaccessible unless you're some kind of tech god). Its like when applebees tried to start being a club at night, no one who wanted to go to a club wanted to go to applebees and applebees core audience didnt like that it became a club at night.

I couldn’t care less tbh. Still a fine browser, still a great daily driver, still blocks all the ads with ublock.

Was unaware of change and thought I had a virus. Looks very stupid.

the worst part of using Firefox is mozilla

the second worst part is mozilla fans

And part of this is made possible by AI tools, to be honest with you. We are able to do a lot more.

People want to feel like they’re in a modern browser—things that match the design language of the operating system. So that’s part of it. We are bringing back compact mode as well…

firefox isnt competitive enough. @grok bring back compact mode. checkmate, chromium

To disable the new design, simply uncheck the "Enable the Nova redesign" option (Settings > Appearance > Browser theme).

Alternatively, set browser.nova.enabled to false in about:config.

Duh. Obviously the logo is what's wrong, better redesign that too.

No, wait, it needs AI!

No, wait, it needs to tell me about some VPN.

Support the specifications, be secure. Perhaps try that.

I really can't wait for Servo to get into a usable state and have alternative browsers being build on top of that.

I got the update today and I'm so tired boss. We had almost settled on something visually calm and organized, and leeeettzzzgooooo back to floaty rounded shit with no choice left to the user !

Blender does interface right, please for the love of Cthulhu take some inspiration: it's got a "roundedness" property for every UI widget that goes from perfectly square to perfectly round, a "widget emboss" property that can be tuned to your liking or disabled entirely, a "widget underline" property, it lets you disable button decorations as well so your toolbars are only floating icons, etc. Every combination is possible and it's very easy to tune. Please do something like that and never touch it again.

What Firefox needs is to fire everyone responsible for the UX, if they have such people on their payroll & put all their ehm "limited" resources on improving performance & some effort is also needed to become more Chromium compatible, perhaps even on a site by site basis. Alas as long as Google is the main revenue source for the project, all this is a pipe dream.

Firefox never had other issues. Poor performance -especially JS- compared to Chromium & some websites just don't work anymore.

gosh i hate this. gotta play with userchrome again...

I like it.

@rhamph silver lining, of sorts: compact mode is back!

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