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Re:Firefox 25 will get a major UI overhaul by Svip on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @01:29AM (#5823884)
Ah, but unlike Chrome, in Firefox, you can configure your client to look exactly like it did before. I know this is extra work for you (and me), but I guess it might work better for the vast majority of users.
Re:Firefox 25 will get a major UI overhaul by throwaway2048 on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @02:37AM (#5824042)
The new ui update has the specific goal of reducing configurability, so new users dont get "confused".

Such changes include the inability to edit any of the UI except a row of buttons on the top left, shockingly just like chrome!. I'm sure these changes will help focus their design vision, or something.

So in short, no, you wont be able to configure your client to look exactly like it did before.

Re:Firefox 25 will get a major UI overhaul by rom16384 on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @06:26AM (#5824633)
It seems that too many times I have to install a plugin to revert some design decision I don't like. This sounds like one of those times.
Re:Firefox 25 will get a major UI overhaul by shock on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @08:02AM (#5825003)
The day the customizability of FF is removed will be a sad day for me. Hopefully someone will create a fork.
Re:Firefox 25 will get a major UI overhaul by lloeki on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @02:55AM (#5824099)
Like disabling Tabs on Top?

Just as in Sublime Text (and even with a proper titlebar), I really dislike those Chrome-y tabs. They take too much real estate for my taste.

Lion scrollbars finally landed on Aurora and I was hoping to move back to Firefox again when it would land in Beta. The move towards consistency with the platform was very welcome around Fx4. Now, striving for uniformity, they make it feel foreign again.

Here's the agenda: Firefox as a brand has to grow and make a show of itself. Indeed the Chromification goes much deeper than simply tab looks: as the OS is relegated to a platform/hypervisor, the browser becomes an OS in itself, so that Firefox OS makes sense for people. They're moving to make phones, which will soon call for services (unless they plan to rely solely on third parties such as WhatsApp). Mozilla's product may increasingly end up looking like yet another vertically integrated software platform.