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Re:Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly by super_mario on Monday November 18, 2013 @05:38PM (#6757722)
Firefox 25 is currently quite good (with Pentadactyl I hide the address and search bar altogether) http://imgur.com/pSzvcAi

This update will make it worse it seems and waste more vertical space (apart from the really ugly aliased curved tabs).

Re:Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly by bcj on Monday November 18, 2013 @08:59PM (#6758739)
I could never get used to not having an address bar. I'm jealous.

The good news is that if you don't like the new look of firefox, you don't need to see it: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/classicthemer...

Re:Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly by super_mario on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @07:40AM (#6760722)
You still have "an address" bar. You type `o` and start typing to search for history, bookmarks or enter new URL all in unified list. Usually a few chars + TAB is enough. This unified list pops from the bottom of the browser window and it respects your color scheme as well.

Of course there is `s` command to search any of your installed search providers and you can do all of this in new tab, window etc.

Pentadactyl is what keeps me using Firefox. When that stops working, it will take me back to stone age when it comes to speed of navigating and researching content online.

Re:Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly by rizumu on Monday November 18, 2013 @08:46PM (#6758685)
Checkout the pentadactyl plugin "buftabs" for maximum vertical space and a friendly tab bar: http://www.leighbicknell.com/pentadactyl-setup/
Re:Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly by super_mario on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @07:52AM (#6760780)
Thanks. I don't know this existed. Can you control the width of the tabs? Right now the URL in the tab is clipped, which can be dangerous and makes you susceptible to fishing attacks when you browse casually.