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Have you at least tried it or are you simply change averse?

I have done the move a few weeks back, and I don't regret my decision. The toolbar and my add-ons located there still work very well, also the new menu gives a quick access to useful features.

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I, for one, have tried it and it makes things I do frequently, more difficult: there's no longer available a bookmark button to open the bookmarks sidebar, there's no longer a menu item to show all bookmaks, when I bookmark something I click the bookmarks star twice in order to enter tags but the second click is only sometimes registered. For me, the previous theme worked much better than australis. I struggle to see the improvements in australis.

Opening the bookmarks toolbar takes indeed two clicks now (but you can use the keyboard shortcut CMD + B to open it instantly). Regarding your second point, the double click works great, and the bookmark details overlay appears.

I'm on Ubuntu, if that makes a difference about the double click on the bookmark star so perhaps it's a platform issue. But I was referring to the bookmarks sidebar not toolbar. How do you open the sidebar?

On Windows Ctrl+B opens the bookmark sidebar, and ctrl+shift+b opens the "library" popup with bookmarks selected.

My point is that there used to be a button that you could place in a toolbar and clicking the button would open the bookmarks sidebar. That button is now gone. I'm sure that in time I'll get used to the changes in australis but I think it would have been better if they would have been introduced gradually. As it was introduced, lots of things stopped working at once the way I was used to. For me, this is friction and it's not good.

I got the Australis updates yesterday, tried it for half an hour. Never use the menu, want my tab real estate back, so I got the addon to fix it.

The shiny gloss over everything is still annoying, and they made the RSS icon monochrome rather than the normal RSS icon when you can sub to feeds, but otherwise I can just get rid of the menu I'd never use and have my old UX back.

If by tab real estate, you mean the amount of tabs that can be shown at once, you only lose 1/8th of a tab http://i.imgur.com/uT0oHl3.png

As nightly-build user I've worked with it a few weeks. I got used to everything - except the tab's on top (more mouse-movement and they just don't make sense, I don't get why they removed that option). But now working with classic theme restorer, so as long as they don't break that plugin everything's fine.

I have tried Chrome and I didn't like it.

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