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I primarily use Chrome just for the reason that it has better UI than Firefox on Linux. The developer tools on Firefox is too ugly, they definitely need a more compact design.

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Firefox 57 has a new UI ("Photon") that you might like, and the DevTools are seeing significant UI/UX work during their rewrite from XUL to HTML (https://github.com/devtools-html/).

You can see some mockups on Victoria Wang's Twitter: https://twitter.com/violasong/status/926189788486557697

Anyone got a rough ETA for when the CSD stuff will make it into main? (or any other hack to hide title bar in MATE/xfce once hidecaptiontitelbarplus addon breaks? sorry to beat dead-horse topic)

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/08/firefox-client-side-decor...

Looks like it's going to be available in Firefox 58 behind a pref: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1415481

Already in Firefox 57 on Fedora 27

Tried installing the nightly CSD build from flatpak and made sure flags were on in about:config. Still a title bar in Ubuntu MATE 16.04 :/

I actually much prefer the 57 UI options. I use the dark theme and it conserves more space than the tabs with chrome.

The icon indicators also are really nice. At this point the only reason I use Chrome is b/c of Google Meet (which doesn’t support Firefox).

The only thing I wish was better in the beta is battery life/usage. Safari is still king in terms of its effect on you battery.

Edit: to be clear I use Firefox beta on Linux and macOS regularly.

Really? I find chrome’s developer tools very ugly though, with bright and garish colors. Firefox’s is much nicer in my opinion. But the nicest-looking devtools is still Safari’s, even though it is also the slowest, buggiest, and had the least features.

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