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by forgot-my-pw 3146 days ago
Firefox is pretty similar looking as Chrome now. I liked FF before cause it looked different, now everyone just copies Chrome look.
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The dark theme looks much better than Chrome.
Does it? As a matter of fact, it's much more similar to MS Edge. With dark theme it's super close in terms of look. Rectangular, beefy tabs.
I'm not sure what you mean by "beefy". Do you mean the "touch" density with the very large tabs and icons? I'm on "compact" and it's very similar to Chrome except for the right-angled tabs. You can switch between three levels of density:

https://winaero.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/firefox-...

While there are some similarities in the UI I don't think the photon design system is a chrome ripoff. http://design.firefox.com/photon/welcome.html