Proton is Firefox’s new design, starting from Firefox 89. Photon is the old design of Firefox which was used until version 88.
Proton’s overall feel is good, but there were a few things I didn’t like and wanted to improve.
That’s why this project was born, and Lepton to denote light theme layer.Lepton’s photon styled is preserve Photon’s feeling while keep Original Lepton’s strengths.
↫ Firefox UI Fix GitHub page
I do not like the current Firefox user interface, because even with the ‘compact’ layout re-enabled in about:config, I find it just too bulky and wasteful of my screen real estate. I’ve been using the above Firefox user interface mod for ages now, and I can’t imagine using Firefox without it. The GitHub pages and guides are a bit of a mess and difficult to follow due to the project consisting of several overlapping different styles, but I just use the script listed here, selecting the style “2” when running the script.
It won’t be for everyone, but for me, it makes Firefox nice and compact, turning it into a mouse-first interface without trying to accommodate touch. This is also by far not the only project with this goal, so if you’re using something else – feel free to list them.
I wish to have native scrollbars back. Almost no browser has them nowadays.
NaGERST,
Me too, It’s especially silly given how widescreen displays have added so many pixels and they get used by empty whitespace on most websites.
All the browsers follow the same minimization trends because they want to be hip, haha.
There’s a setting in Firefox about:config which will turn them on.
> I do not like the current Firefox user interface, because […] I find it just too bulky
There’s ways to get a much tidier/smaller interface in Firefox, but it’s definitely not user-friendly: editing userChrome.css to manually configure the interface to one’s tastes.
I get quite more screen space in my Ffox, by putting bookmarls + url bar + tabs in a single line: https://i.ibb.co/SK8GsLQ/image.png
That’s… That’s what this is.
Yes. So there’s nothing new in this article, we’ve been doing this for more than 10 years.
I was wondering why this project existed, and then I saw it was a KDE user. LOL
I don’t really see the changes as being a big difference, and sometimes the changes add more clutter, like the extra icons in the menus.
Has anyone attempted to integrate the Palemoon browser UI with the latest iteration of the Gecko engine?