I hope it’s just a joke
It looks fine, I guess…? Then again, I thought the old design was fine as it was…
This seems so out of place on every OS and DE I can think of.
I’m seeing this trend towards rounded corners in quite a few places, though. Certainly feels like early days of a larger design trend…
Yes, my first thought went to JetBrains IDEs recent “Islands” redesign, but it somehow looks better in dark mode than it does in these mockups.
bring back native styling!
I don’t like gaps, included rounded corners. Let me use all my screen space dammit
Firefox hasn’t looked good since they changed “Photon” for “Proton” with those awful floating tabs. Thank god for Zen Browser.
literally just fix bugs
I hope it’s just a joke
Yes, the classic Mozilla April Fools joke, released a full month early.
off by one error
They forgot that Date.getMonth() is zero-indexed
Again?
😡
Wtf are the symbols on the left?
- Display?
- Sparkles? (bookmark groups?)
- Star (bookmarks in the current ui)
- Time
FFS I miss drop down menus with text options instead of hieroglyphics.
Sparkles? (bookmark groups?)
Sparkles icon means stochastic parrot (already in current Firefox)
Thanks. And fuck. I guess you can remove it from the menus. So there’s that. Relegate that shit to extensions if you have to.
I like this a lot! However I hope they keep the userChrome function because as nice as it is I’m going to keep my LibAdwaita skin anyways.
thanks i hate it if youre gonna keep going chromium then take from vivaldi.
but really you should take from seamonkey and palemoon for ui ideas mozilla
How much of their Google Search money did they use to pay a bunch of consultants for this?
the old one is fine
i don’t think the ui is your main problem, mozilla, but ok i guess.
Well, their main problem is attention. And we are looking at a news article right now.
I really hate the trend of people just randomly changing UI in apps for no apparent reason. It’s just a pervasive problem at this point.
Definitely, after the redesign i now have to read all the labels because just about everything has changed its layout
Exactly, and I get why companies do it. They generally prioritize bringing new customers on, so they tweak things because they think it’s more trendy or appealing. But for an open source project to do these things just makes no sense at all. I get the impression people running things at Mozilla are completely disconnected from what Firefox users actually want at this point.
I’m far from an expert, but Ui design as a job seems to have a huge flaw were if you eventually make the “perfect Ui” you’re suddenly out of a job.
So you’re straight up punished for doing your job well and the only way to maintain a career is to just re-invent the wheel every so often and chase the trends of others doing the same thing so your Ui designs don’t look “outdated”
That could be an aspect too.
You are correct. Unlike other teams design teams can be actually “done” at some point. But just like other teams design teams need to constantly produce something.
You’re right. It’s too few AI chatbots!
Proton was already fuck awful.
I prefer standardized OS wide appearances that are respected by all apps. The only skinning I want are Dark Modes or Mini Player modes (for media players).
