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Re:Firefox 25 will get a major UI overhaul by RHSeeger on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @01:02AM (#5823798)
That's one of the things I despise about Chrome... plus the fact that it doesn't have a title bar at all. They taking exactly the things that make Chrome less usable to me and putting them in Firefox. /sigh
Re:Firefox 25 will get a major UI overhaul by abenga on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @03:11AM (#5824139)
It's right there in the settings: (in Chrome)

Settings > Appearance > "Use system title bar and borders".

edit: clarified I meant Chrome.

Re:Firefox 25 will get a major UI overhaul by OrsenPike on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @03:30AM (#5824176)
Not on Windows :/
Re:Firefox 25 will get a major UI overhaul by narsil on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @04:26AM (#5824310)
Not on my Mac. Am I missing something?
Re:Firefox 25 will get a major UI overhaul by serzz on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @05:34AM (#5824486)
It is available on Chromium (Linux)
Re:Firefox 25 will get a major UI overhaul by tsm on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @09:52AM (#5825518)
What are you missing on your Mac? It has the system title bar, the system-provided x, -, and + buttons, and (on my Mountain Lion, at least), the system-provided full-screen button in the top-right. What more could there be?
Re:Firefox 25 will get a major UI overhaul by RHSeeger on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @10:45AM (#5825892)
> What more could there be?

A full height title bar with the title of the current tab in it that I can use to drag the window around. Having to precisely aim my mouse pointer in order to drag my window is extremely annoying.

Re:Firefox 25 will get a major UI overhaul by tsm on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @10:56AM (#5825976)
[Replying here due to HN's threading limits. This is in response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5825892]

Anyway, I fail to see a significant difference between Finder and Chrome's appearance: http://i.imgur.com/sgfMXOy.png

If Chrome was full of tabs, the ~20px area to drag the window around is arguably a bit small, but it'd look ridiculous if there was a huge margin above the tabs.

Re:Firefox 25 will get a major UI overhaul by k__ on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @04:53AM (#5824377)
I read about people who like their tabs on the left, because they have so many. Opera allows this AFAIK.

But why do you think the Firefox tab placement is better?

Re:Firefox 25 will get a major UI overhaul by progrock on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @09:38AM (#5825436)
If you get tab happy, tabs are really difficult to navigate in Firefox without and extension, and I've tried most of the popular tab extensions - and have yet to find anything I like (that works without some bug).

Chrome and Opera squeeze the tabs, but list them all, whereas Firefox forces a scroll after so many, which feels horrible. Also Opera has let's you list and switch open tabs with CTRL+TAB, or lets you reposition your tabs.

Really though managing tabs should be left to the window manager. Otherwise you just get inconsistant behaviour between applications.

That's when the title comes into it's own.

Re:Firefox 25 will get a major UI overhaul by pcwalton on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @09:48AM (#5825499)
> Chrome and Opera squeeze the tabs, but list them all, whereas Firefox forces a scroll after so many, which feels horrible. Also Opera has let's you list and switch open tabs with CTRL+TAB, or lets you reposition your tabs.

I use this tiny add-on, written by one of the main Firefox front end developers: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/custom-tab-wi...

It makes Firefox have the Chrome behavior of making tabs shrink infinitely. All it does it tweak one minor setting in the UI, so it's pretty bulletproof.

Re:Firefox 25 will get a major UI overhaul by progrock on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @09:59AM (#5825573)
Thanks for that! Actually it still introduces the scroller at some point, but is slightly better.