New Firefox coming June 1

"Sounds awful' - Marvin the Paranoid Android

(Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

Remember when Firefox was built for speed & performance...a power users web browser. I don't understand why companies feel the need to constantly fiddle about with great things until they become bloated & useless.

I'm not liking the sound of this at all.

This will be amusing. I see nothing wrong with the current FirexFox user interface titlebar and menus:

is what I currently see. Not bad at all.

Just let us know what the about:config option will be to use the old style and ignore the new style, please.

Every time they change it we have problems. Why can't they just leave it alone?

AK6DN said:

This will be amusing. I see nothing wrong with the current FirexFox user interface titlebar and menus:

is what I currently see. Not bad at all.

Just let us know what the about:config option will be to use the old style and ignore the new style, please.

For now that will be easy:

Open about:config and disable Proton settings:

browser.proton.enabled > false (disables Proton UI of toolbars, tabs, application menu)
browser.proton.contextmenus.enabled > false (disables Proton UI of context menus)
browser.proton.doorhangers.enabled > false (disables Proton UI of doorhangers)

Other Proton settings:
browser.proton.infobars.enabled > false
browser.proton.modals.enabled > false
browser.proton.places-tooltip.enabled > false
browser.proton.toolbar.version > 0-3 (no effect atm)

I've done a lot of playing around with Proton enabled to get it to look like I want and have pretty much succeeded. However, it took a lot of work with userChrome.css and userContent. Currently I have all proton features enabled except for the context menus which have way too much padding on the bookmark drop down list.

f14tomcat said:

Behind the design of the fresh new Firefox coming June 1 | The Firefox Frontier



A new Firefox is coming your way on June 1 with a fresh look designed for today’s modern life online. We pored over the browser’s user interface pixel by pixel, measured the value users were getting from our massive library of features, and ultimately streamlined the Firefox experience to be clean, inviting and easier to use on every device.

I always dread these type of announcements especially if we lose cascading menus and the like --I'm NOT usuing computers as large mobile phones !!!!.

I'm really quite satisfied with the current Firefox setup and options.

Being an Engineer by profession I still believe in the old adage :

"If it ain't Broke -- Don't Fix it".

Nothing wrong with tweaking out of date bits etc but too much simplyfying things can make any sort of diagnostics and repair almost impossible - for an example of that have a look at the "Automated set up " of email accounts in the latest versions of OUTLOOK which don't work at all if you have non standard email server addresses, different send and receive servers, different passwords on each and even different user names on inbound and outbound servers.

One feature I'd love to have on ALL browsers is "auto mute" when connecting to web sites -- some now play introductory sound clip or whatever at initial logon -- hideous - especially if you want to browse in a quiet place say a university library etc.

If you want audio then it should be enabled by choice not rammed down your throat -- and some people do browse in quiet rooms etc.

Another Windows app that really needs to be changed is the dreadfully outdated Windows explorer - especially that bonkers way of arranging a contents of a directory - what's wrong with base alphabetical order - and please allow for long path, directory and file names - the 266 limit still exists in File explorer even though internally that's been fixed within Windows itself. It's just the old Windows explorer API hasn't been updated yet either.



Cheers
jimbo