It’s really not bad. It is a change. You might consider keeping it enabled for a couple of weeks and see if you still hate it so much after the new wears off.

I barely noticed it even after reading HNers whine about it. They said it covered other UI components. In reality it grows a few pixels. I wouldn't have noticed it had I not read HN, that's for sure.

What animation???

I assume the GP is talking about the search bar becoming slightly bigger on focus.

Oh, the horror!

I’ve been using Nightly for a long time and I have no idea what this is about.

I still legitimately don't see what people are describing about the address bar. I haven't noticed a change the entire time I've used Firefox (about year). Could someone post a before-and-after screenshot or something? (I've been using Firefox Developer Edition too if that makes a difference?)

I don't know how it can be missed, but I'll bite:

Old: https://chungy.keybase.pub/firefox-old-urlbar.webp

New: https://chungy.keybase.pub/firefox-new-urlbar.webp

Yeah, my nightly build just got it. I hate it. I hate the new tab style too. And they got rid of dark mode?