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Hooray! Been waiting for this for a long time. I'll be especially happy if Mozilla can manage to improve the default look of Firefox on Linux, where it's just absolutely dreadful (and where I'm usually forced to resort to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fxchrome/ to preserve my sanity).

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Hmmm...I like the look of current Firefox more than Chrome on Linux. Looks more native.

Agree. Chrome looks totally out of place when running with Evilwm.

BTW: it is annoying the web browsers don't seem to support the -geometry switch under xorg.

well firefox uses window manager decorations, chrome doesn't

Firefox UX branch on Linux (Gnome) http://i4.minus.com/i3HfXuN32bRDe.png

Firefox Nightly on Linux (KDE) http://i.imgur.com/OySdVCX.png.

That actually looks pretty decent. Thanks for posting.

It looks like every other app. What is wrong with that?

Assuming we are talking about ubuntu - a lot.

For example I'd like to have the Firefox button at top left orange, not gray. And slimmer (not as tall as a tab). It's clearly less polished than the Windows version. And yet I thanks them everyday for the browser

I only hope they're also getting rid of GTK icons on the main chrome. They make (unthemed) Firefox on a high-DPI screen completely unusable.

(Why? Scaling up page content (via layout.css.devPixelsPerPx) also scales up chrome, including the (already properly sized) icons— so every icon in Fx ends up being four times larger than it should.)

We are replacing the GTK icons with custom icons.

Are you manually changing layout.css.devPixelsPerPx to support a hidpi display?

Excellent! I'm glad to hear it.

Yeah— is there a better way I should be doing it?

(Also, as an aside, I've been a huge fan of your work with Firefox for years, so, uh, thanks for everything you've done on it).

Agreed, and thanks for sharing that addon -- I have been using chrome honestly ONLY because it looks just SLIGHTLY better.

Australis looks like it's going to solve all of my problems

Huge agreement from a regular Chrome user on Linux here. I watched the video and the design is great. I'm really looking forward to this landing in a stable release.

That looks much better than Australis (I _really_ don't like rounded tabs).

Mine looks great on Ubuntu, what are your issues?

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