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by silvi9 1798 days ago
Not a huge fan of the new Firefox Proton UI, the tabs look more like buttons and I found the previous design a lot more streamlined. The new design doesn't feel as usable as it should be IMO, and it'll be a reason for me to move to another browser if the design isn't updated in the future.

At the moment, I've switched off Proton in the about:config section, but it's only a matter of time before this will no longer be an option. Hopefully Firefox will go back to the old UI or at least make some changes!
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bcrl 1798 days ago
I loathe the days that window managers and apps decide to steal multiple pixels vertically for useless appearance "improvements". Thank you for making less content visible on my screen.
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_Microft 1798 days ago
Firefox (currently) has a setting called browser.compactmode.show which makes the UI more compact when set to true. You might want to check it out?

Using this setting, tab bar plus navigation bar take up 72 pixels vertically for me.

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dmitrygr 1798 days ago
They are on record that it will be removed "real soon now". Apparently "nobody uses it"
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_Microft 1798 days ago
I did some searching and they seem to keep the about:config option:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1703254

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