Firefox May Have Lost Up to 12% of Its Users So Far in 2021

Re:Firefox May Have Lost Up to 12% of Its Users So Far in 2021 by silvi9 on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @03:58PM (#27911305)

Not a huge fan of the new Firefox Proton UI, the tabs look more like buttons and I found the previous design a lot more streamlined. The new design doesn't feel as usable as it should be IMO, and it'll be a reason for me to move to another browser if the design isn't updated in the future.

At the moment, I've switched off Proton in the about:config section, but it's only a matter of time before this will no longer be an option. Hopefully Firefox will go back to the old UI or at least make some changes!

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Re:Firefox May Have Lost Up to 12% of Its Users So Far in 2021 by bcrl on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @05:15PM (#27912311)

I loathe the days that window managers and apps decide to steal multiple pixels vertically for useless appearance "improvements". Thank you for making less content visible on my screen.

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Re:Firefox May Have Lost Up to 12% of Its Users So Far in 2021 by _Microft on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @05:27PM (#27912437)

Firefox (currently) has a setting called browser.compactmode.show which makes the UI more compact when set to true. You might want to check it out?

Using this setting, tab bar plus navigation bar take up 72 pixels vertically for me.

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Re:Firefox May Have Lost Up to 12% of Its Users So Far in 2021 by dmitrygr on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @08:04PM (#27913722)

They are on record that it will be removed "real soon now". Apparently "nobody uses it"

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Re:Firefox May Have Lost Up to 12% of Its Users So Far in 2021 by _Microft on Thursday July 22, 2021 @02:44AM (#27916149)

I did some searching and they seem to keep the about:config option:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1703254

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