Mozilla is working on a big Firefox redesign, here is what it looks like (opens in new tab)

(neowin.net)

36 pointsbundie20d ago25 comments

25 comments

Why don't they start with low-hanging fruit like the buggy and slow history and bookmarks view instead of yet another redesign of the main browser interface? Are the designers bored? And stop making everything excessively round. And it kinda looks like Opera, another adware AI browser.

dangus20d ago

Because if their browser doesn’t look like the other ones on the market, customers assume Firefox is behind the times and not as good.

Like it or not, Apple and Google set trends in terms of look and feel.

riedel19d ago

The question is rather if Mozilla can win this catch-up game and win new users. If they do this they should rather IMHO simply upstream the stuff done by Zen [0], which IMHO has a much more modern look and feel. Btw: there is still quite some users that are lost if UI changes. Particularly older people might simply use pre-installed Edge if they have to get used to a new design anyway. My parent in law were still on SeaMonkey until a few months. I installed some weird old school theme (I think echolon [1]) to ease the transition.

[0] https://zen-browser.app/ [1] https://echelon-theme.github.io/

wpm20d ago

Do customers actually think that though?

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TomMasz20d ago

Change for the sake of change.

fsflover20d ago

This is a shallow dismissal, isn't it?

estimator729220d ago

It's true

gkhartman20d ago

I really thought we'd be using a Firefox powered by Servo by now, but instead we're getting a second UI rewrite. At least it's not becoming a chromium wrapper.

ZeroGravitas20d ago

Second?

Firefox was a UI rewrite before it was even called Firefox and there been several more since then.

jajuuka20d ago

Whoever thought it was a good idea to have a full size address area AND a full size vertical bar at the same time needs to find their way to the door. On desktops and large laptops it's not a major problem, but smaller displays it's wasting so much space.

This design feels very generic though. Doesn't really stand out from any other modern browser.

bundieOP20d ago

maybe that's the point?

ichik20d ago

Ladybird, Servo and Orion can't come soon enough.

amenhotep20d ago

Oh no, not again.

vrighter17d ago

this is why i stopped donating to the project. Random redesigns intended to pad someone's resume. Giving me a switch to turn off features we all repeatedly insisted we did not want but spent time developing anyway, and expecting me to think this switch is a good thing, etc

hulitu20d ago

Funny, I thought of "they added more things on the window title. They did. Why not add also the URL bar there ?

kasabali19d ago

Firefox 4 was peak design, anything they've did afterwards is to keep designers employed.

jokoon20d ago

Somebody finally picked up the login autofill bug, not sure it's production ready

dmitrygr20d ago

Oh, FFS, who asked for this? Why not fix perf issues, or autofill randomly breaking requiring a restart?

fortyseven20d ago

So tired of UI refreshes of things that already work fine.

kaelwd20d ago

Looks kinda like https://github.com/nuclearcodecat/shimmer

pranshuchittora20d ago

Arc Browser

thatguy2720d ago

I hate it.

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