Browser Tool Box (open fly out menu -> More Tools, or Ctrl+Alt+Shift+I). This opens a remote debugging session, and you can freely select and customize any part of the chrome.
I’m still confused why the tabs look like this. The active tab is so different than the inactive that it’s hard to make a connection between them. Most people already have an association with typical tab UIs. Why change this fundamental perception into something more generic and ambiguous?
It doesn't justify shitty UX decisions, no. But it does alleviate the pain you experience when companies (inevitably) do fuck up something you depend on.
If the same happened in Chrome or Safari you would have the same chance of adjusting the browser UI as you have adjusting the UX of your toaster (none [or with a lot of work]).
Instead, Firefox lets power users be power users, installing extensions that completely changes the UI or adding your own stylesheets for customizations like the ones mentioned in this submission.
So booo to the team doing the UX change, yay to Firefox for letting me fix their own mistakes without having to wait for it to be deployed.
> Most people already have an association with typical tab UIs. Why change this fundamental perception into something more generic and ambiguous?
This was probably said about tabs vs windows when tabs first appeared in browsers as well. Why introduce a different concept when you can already have many windows?! People seem to prefer tabs today, so sometimes going against the wind is a good thing. Problem is that you don't know what will be good until you throw that thing at people and they tell/show you their reaction.
You can justify any bad changes this way and "probably" means you don't know but you just made it up to justify. Tabs made things better we all new when that happend. What good thing the designers thought to introduce this change like in the tabs?
These designers have nothing to do at office if they don't. Basically we all are lab rats with every new shiny device or app version that hits now a days. Anyone having fun re-learning new gestures on mobile devices every 2 years?
My biggest gripe is that the default UI doesn’t look like a typical default UI. It looks like a third party plugin that’ll most likely confuse more people than with a plain boring UI.
Tabs is a way to group related so windows which useful if you have many of them. And AFIR tabs in browsers was very welcomed by users, unlike today’s nonstop UI churn.
Why listen to feedback when you have telemetry. (edit: /s for clarity. My point is that telemetry is probably a net negative for many projects.)
There's probably a telemetry -> spreadsheet -> powerpoint -> jira workflow that people are doing full time at most companies.
Telemetry complements feedback, it should never replace it entirely.
The problem is that every major UI change breaks the userChrome.css and I have to spend a while tweaking it or waiting for someone else to design it up. It's frustrating.
Since I knew this update was coming I disabled automatic updates for the first time ever. It might be a while before I decide to upgrade.
ESR is definitely a safer option.
If you use a lot of tabs in most browsers, the tabs end up being just tiny icon-sized. That's no good. I also don't want to go through another layer to find them.