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Designing Firefox for the future (blog.mozilla.org)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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[–] 30 points 5 months ago (10 children)

I hate everything about "modern design" ... Rounded corners, gradients, blur and transparency effects, fading in/out ... fuck that! I want my browser to look and feel like the rest of my UI.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Yes, it’s fortunately just a trend. Just like websites. At one point tiny 10px font for main text content and absurdly small navigation buttons were seen as “modern”, nowadays huge empty spaces and 30px fonts are the norm.

    Or Javascript vs no Javascript, this also changes every few years.

    I just hope this ugly mess will just be the annoying design fad of the year.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    This is basically what I was thinking. I customized Firefox to be less rounded with sharp edges, single color and much denser. I don't know why every application is treated like a new abstract art (off course I'm exaggerating here).

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    That’s mine (resized to not have a huge screenshot file)

    Custom fully custom labwc theme, customized GTK theme, modified Firefox (userChrome.css)

    Thunar for reference.

    Anything more and I’d feel super distracted and annoyed.

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    There is clearly a lot going on in your UI! It’s always great to see how people customize their environment and funny how corporations like Mozilla think they know better.

    I don’t mean like minimalism. I’m clearly more maximalist in my themeing than you lol.

    Oh, my theming is maximalist. Especially labwc: It’s 100% custom from ground up for theme and configuration. Not one single bit was taken over from the default configuration. It’s just the result that is minimalist 😆

    Same with Firefox: I override almost all of the tabs styling with custom configuration.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    I was hoping for screenshot sharing, lol. Yours look similar familiar, I wouldn't be surprised if we shared in the past whenever we had this topic before.

    Mine evolves from time to time. Sometimes I learn something new from new screenshots and incorporate that. One such recent "implementation" is the Bookmarks Toolbar. I created a top level directory named "Favorites" and put all quick access bookmarks in there and moved the toolbar to the same level of tabs, to save me an entire extra line of bar. My current Firefox looks like this:

    I'm on KDE, the titlebar is disabled for all windows (I'm an auto tiler person). BTW I'm not sure how to get rid off the rounded corners of the window, but that is not Firefox specific.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    I like some of these things, but I'd be ok with them being optional toggles. I remember seeing a Firefox fork with extensive customization options for the UI

    Personally

    • rounded corners make it easier to see what is contained in what. It gives more information than just having everything meet at corners
    • gradients and blurs match the rest of my UI 😄
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