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0 pointscorty4y ago0 comments

The thing is, if you do not like the UI of unity, maybe you'll like Gnome, KDE, LXDE, fluxbox, i3 or ratpoison or .... With most Linux distros, you can have both privacy and your favourite UI paradigm. You usually do not need to suffer in the usability department (or at least not too much).

But with Firefox, all the UI choices are gone now, intentionally sacrificed on the altair of rewrites, UI changes, branding and some dubious security claims. You used to get the choice of vertical tabs (better on todays widescreen laptops), tree-style tabs, Buttons where you liked them, user-provided CSS customization for pages and the UI. Not anymore, all gone (they paid some lip service to some of the above concerns, but nothing relevant, and overall a massive downturn).

Now you only get the take-it-or-leave-it of one crappy and worsening Chrome clone UI.

0 pointscorty4y ago0 comments

Now you only get the take-it-or-leave-it of one crappy and worsening Chrome clone UI.

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dTal4y ago· 3 in thread

Huh? Happy Tree Style Tabs user here, and another addon (Sidebery) seems to be growing in popularity as well. You can disable the built-in tabs with userChrome.css. What am I missing?

eitland4y ago

How do you disable the top tabs these days?

I activated browser debugging, pressed ctrl + alt + shift + i and then hunted down the offending tab bar and put in "display: none" for it.

It gets harder and harder year by year though and on the tabstrip issue in Bugzilla there's at least one person who was annoyed and told me to not question peoples motives after I asked a simple question about it.

Anyone here working for Mozilla, I ask the same question here: are you overcomplicating it? I managed to get rid of that tab bar using a CSS hack, why can't we just get a function to apply that css, at least in developer edition?

dTal4y ago

The CSS "hack" is the official way. That's sort of the point of using CSS to display the UI. It's editable.

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perryizgr84y ago

If you're happy with the current tree style tabs, I'll wager you never used the original. The current one is a bad rip off, with 90% of the actual features missing.

stjohnswarts4y ago

None of that matters to most people. People want a robust, fast, and secure browser that evolves rather than tries to be revolutionary. I think the large GUI changes did bug a lot of people.

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