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Does anyone have screenshots of the new UI changes?

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This article has a few good ones.

https://9to5linux.com/firefox-89-enters-beta-testing-with-st...

Whitespaaaace, whitespace everywheeeeere.

The year is 2070. Advances in ultra-high density displays have finally realised modern designers' wet dreams of having fonts whose lines are only 1 micrometre thin.

I can't think what's more idiotic in those screenshots. The ungodly amount of whitespace, or the checkboxes-turned-slideswitches (despite the fact that the "slide" metaphor doesn't even make sense outside of touch interfaces), the gray-on-gray colour scheme ("accessibility, what's that?"), the neon-blue accents marketed as a "calming, fresh new design"...

Come on.

The text in the menus / tooltips depends on your system. That part is not specific to FF. It does match the rest of the gnome environment. (used for screenshots) I'm not sure the thin font complaint really belongs here.

> the gray-on-gray colour scheme ("accessibility, what's that?")

As long as the contrast is large enough, it doesn't seem like an accessibility issue. (Accessibility has to account for people who don't see colour) For accessibility you don't want black-on-white either, so you do need some level of grey. It would be interesting to see what does the high-contrast system setting do to the display, but otherwise... are you actually commenting about low contrast?

On the active window the lowest contrast I can find is 4.64:1 (for placeholder text in the address bar) which passes WCAG AA for normal text (AAA for large).

> Error establishing a database connection

I am not sure what I expected ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Here are the most relevant images:

• https://i1.wp.com/9to5linux.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/f...

• https://i0.wp.com/9to5linux.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/f...

• https://i1.wp.com/9to5linux.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/f...

There is also a video:

https://9to5linux.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/firefox89be...

Your third link shows that they're adding sponsors to the top sites list. As far as I know that's kind of flying under the radar, previously the only ads on the new tab page were article recommendations from Pocket.

Unfortunately that's not new. It was previously listed as Sponsored Top Sites. At least it can be disabled easily.

Thanks. Was this added in the last few versions? I'm usually on top of these things but I hadn't noticed that setting in the home page section of preferences until now. (For me, toggling it didn't add or remove any sites from my list, so it had no noticeable effect.)

Pocket seems to be the only menu item visible by default, and they've adopted the idea of searching on Google from the URL bar. Is Mozilla short on cash again?

Floating tabs? I am surprised that got approved.

I am extremely surprised about this as well. Breaking the integration between the tab and the URL bar looks terrible to me.

This just looks remarkably unpleasant. :/

screens have less height than width, and yet they manage to waste more height space than ever.. that is not a good UX

So it's literally Chrome now.

Looks more like GNOME Ephiphany.

It was literally Chrome before. Every desktop browser has the exact same UI for tabs sans the skin.

Hardly. Mimicking a UI doesn't make something "literally" that.

Also, stop using "literally" when you don't literally mean that.

Am I the only person who prefers light mode 95% of the time?

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