Behind the design of the fresh new Firefox coming June 1

DHPersonal 5 years ago |

I've been using the beta version of Firefox that seems to be running the new UI. I took some screenshots to share some of the differences:

Current: https://filedn.com/l4TAWvbSe5i8mJFf1TSvpfS/Image%205-21-21%2...

New: https://filedn.com/l4TAWvbSe5i8mJFf1TSvpfS/Screen%20Shot%202...

• Tabs look like buttons now

• Things feel taller

• Back/Forward buttons are simpler

• "Compact" UI mode is gone

• Light mode finally looks fully light instead of having a gray toolbar

• Address/Search bar no longer has blue outline when active but still gets big

denton-scratch 5 years ago |

I have to watch a video? No text summary? No transcript?

I can skim text. I can't skim video. I think it's rude to provide only video - it amounts to taking my time for granted.

sidpatil 5 years ago | |

Not only that, but video uses far more data than text, which is terrible for mobile data users.

0dayz 5 years ago |

Geez, I really wish they showed upcoming features/ui tweaks plain and simple instead of this overdone cheesy "showcase".

GekkePrutser 5 years ago | |

One thing that doesn't make sense is them saying they try to eliminate clicks. But they're removing lots of direct buttons and hiding stuff under hamburger menus which actually adds a lot of clicks and breaks my flow.

antonyh 5 years ago | | |

Not even sure about that, everything seems to be in the same place on nightly. Nothing has moved as far as I can tell.

GekkePrutser 5 years ago | | |

I haven't seen the new one yet as I don't use nightly, but this is one of the criticisms I have of Firefox since the last redesign. For example, moving the bookmarks menu and history under "Library". Meaning one extra click to access both.

Of course you can put all this stuff back in the toolbar but I have many systems and this is annoying. In the super-short clips I didn't see any change to this. They still make everything pretty click-intensive.

antonyh 5 years ago |

Given the reaction I received from speaking out about moving the 'close tabs to the right' option into a sub-menu, I'm not expecting good things here.

As for the video presentation, zero information. I'll tolerate it whatever it is, but if I want to find out what has changed I'll probably have to install a nightly or beta build.

antonyh 5 years ago | |

Installed 'nightly'.

Key changes... - tabs now look like buttons. - there's no divider line between pinned tabs - icons are a bit lighter, thinner lines - bar at top is a bit taller - a few label changes here and there, but that might be the installed default language pack

Either not all the changes are in nightly (which would be odd), or I just don't know what to look for.