Say hello to a fresh new Firefox, designed to get you where you want to go even faster. We’ve redesigned and modernized the core experience to be cleaner, more inviting, and easier to use.
I was all set to dislike the new design, but honestly, on Linux – both on Gtk+ and KDE desktops, it looks and feels… Nice? I got used to it in an instant, and everything definitely looks cleaner, tighter, and fresher, without really making any massive changes or doing any truly drastic user interface overhauls.
Nothing extraordinary. But at least, Firefox will help level the playing field of this browser wars. The Brave browser I am using currently is stealing my Brave awards, so, it is the same way. The only difference is that the Brave browser will promptly steal your tokens out from your wallet(I am still verifying if this was intentional or a bug), while Google, Microsoft et al are indirectly telling you that you are the data, and that they will resell your data to advertisers.
There’s nobody to trust now, except perhaps Firefox.
The new UI can be disabled on about:config by setting browser.proton.enabled to false.
1000x thanks, the tabs’ border has disappeared. It’s shoving even more “flattened UI” down your throat when you didn’t even have asked for it. Those pesky UI design choices gets less and less logic…
Hey UI designers, remember Windows 1.0 in monochrome ? Do the same but just with black floating text on white background and no border at all for windows and widgets, lets make users guess where to drag and click.
What’s next, amber bbs terminal consoles ?
Then desktop Linux ?
Since I run with the menu bar on, now there’s a sea of emptiness at the top of Firefox. The “System” theme is just white, it doesn’t actually reflect anything in the system (at least on Windows), and I still can’t tell when it has focus or not.
Of course, these days, most of the windows on my desktop make it impossible to tell which one has focus. Sure glad we completely dropped the study of human-computer interaction and threw out all the human interface guidelines.
Get off my lawn.
Also, I’m trying out Brave, but there’s just some nebulous “feel” about Chrome browsers that I don’t like. At least it’s faster?
The Proton looks is just fine, I don’t really care about it, honestly. I am so glad it doesn’t force feed those “Brave rewards” things that I just dislike, this is precisely why I am not running Brave (also their adblock is useless). So Firefox it is, for me, on my Win10’s & Android’s…
I like the new UI, the floaty tabs took a little bit of time for me to get used to when I used the beta few weeks ago. Once I was used to it, I couldn’t go back.
It’s ok. Not a step backwards but nothing to write home about either. The previous ui didn’t bother me so I wasn’t antsy for it to change.
Same here. I was preaparing my daily rant about design changes that no one asked for, but instead I kind of like the new design (which is not too different btw).
Now, if Firefox could show the content of window when I detach a tab… THAT would be awesome.
Not a huge fan of the “island” tabs, and the contrast between UI elements seems worse than before (on macOS). Especially the second point seems like, wtf… But regardless it’s fine and hardly a reason to leave FF or to not continue recommending it to everyone.
Oh, yeah?
* removed ability to view images in current tab
* removed view page info from right click menu
* removed [official] support for compact mode
* removed icons from menus
* removed borders from tabs
* increased padding and whitespace in the UI
* removed ability to mute unselected tabs
From me personally:
* Contract has been decreased even further
* Tabs are now completely disconnected from the actual web pages
I don’t understand whether you’re joking or just blind or you don’t really use this browser at all. 95% of changes in the UI have made it a lot worse than before. And the changes are indeed drastic.
I like nothing about this new UI aside from a slightly better organized hamburger menu – from which they have removed icons which makes navigating it a horrible experience.
Or maybe, you know, he likes it AND isn’t blind. I wasn’t sold on it from screenshots, but in practice I think it works well and does seem a little more refined. Like nothing they’ve done has gotten in my way or made me stub my toe when looking for features I previously used. Maybe it impacts more advanced users differently, but I haven’t had any problems yet. And I also think the interface looks cleaner and fresher so I guess my eyes don’t work either.
You like the new palette? You could have changed the theme.
Why is it the 99% of people who like the new UI cannot even say a single thing about what they like about it yet they turn a blind eye to all the major regressions in functionality in usability?
Bugger off with “I like it”. This is how good programs become utter crap. Some people like superficial color changes, right.
It looks kinda dumb. I turned it off. I think that UI elements should match the OS the program is running on. So when tabs on windows don’t look like all the other tabs, it annoys me. same with MacOS, or $DesktopEnv on Linux. So it annoys me when a program like firefox ignores the underlying OS, it sticks out like a sore thumb.
Well seriously, as many of you I didn’t like most of the changes. So I searched, found, tried and adopted this : https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix
Tabs are looking like tabs, icons are back, my overall felling is good again. Whitout disabling Proton (which would only be a temporary solution).
Still I’m worried about firefox, as most users won’t be able to find and install this “patch”. Why on earth did they change the GUI so badly ?
Hipster designers who have to prove their worth.
I was already using a widened tab layout with the earlier releases but this Proton shit added even more padding. The only reason for the bloated UI seems to be ability for displaying that YouTube videos aren’t “autoplaying” in the background — something that I know without the UI explicitly telling it to me. Completely useless update.
I was putting off updating but at the end of the day have no choice. If you want security updates like a political party they ram all their hobby horses in your face so when they have you over a barrel you have to swallow their whole agenda. From comments I have read there has been a lot of dislike for the new interface while a few say they like it. Okay, I’m prepared to give it a chance so update.
First impression? “OMG. What?????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
First of all I use Firefox with menus turned on so my overall expertienc is slightly different. I cannot see or find a thing with respect to tabs or any other edge. All the borders on everything have disappeared so I cannot easy scan for an edge. It’s all the same grey blur. There’s more whitespace I don’t need. Menus are one big flat edgeless space hog like the rest of the interface.
No. No. No. I hate this.
No, obviously other people likes it. You don’t know them, but they obviously expressed their opinion more vocally than you have, or are more considered than you are.
Hence here we are all again, with a stupid interface where we don’t recognize shit because they “flattened” everything again. Like they are trying to flatten our very own existence and bend our taste into their will.
I know that UX designer have to justify their wages and deserves to have a living too, just like APP devs, but pleeease, separate the two and leave users to decide which part they want to “upgrade”.
It also all goes the same path with my rants about Microsoft’s UI design choices here https://www.osnews.com/story/133505/huawei-officially-replaces-android-with-harmonyos-which-is-also-android/
I value good design and usability. This new Firefox interface and the whole school of flat design isn’t it. I’m not a designer but do know what works and what doesn’t and have greater than zero knowledge of the field. I’ve seen very few (zero) experts discuss this whole topic. It’s usually left to corporate mouthpieces and alleged “ux experts”. What works for an interface and what works for a magazine are not the same. They also don’t get the “ux” bit. This includes psychology and perception and motor feedback loops and memory and intent. Get these “ux experts” on that topic and see how long they last. I don’t switch on my computer so middle managers and hipsters with sleeve tattoo’s can live rent free in my head.
As theuserbl points out, you can configure Firefox to use the old theme: go to about:config and set browser.proton.enabled to false.
I am suffering an incompatibility with Firefox Yahoo mail. Every restart of browser requires a fresh input to yahoo.com email.
I do about 4=5 power-off/power-on cycles per day to yahoo.com, Each one requires password validation via google or email to another site or to cellphone.
I want to remain with version 88.x
Impossibru!!!! 89 is better, new UI, all people loves it.
Try it with a fresh profile you might have some weird issue there… that said am running the developer version which is all the way up to v90 with no issues on yahoo mail.
That said if you put your password in wrong… it will cause this, it automatically assumes you forgot your password and authenticates via alternative means. Make sure you reset your password in yahoo, and in the firefox password manger to the same thing.