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06-03-2021, 05:07 AM
A history of fucking up the FF UI
For a long time, the devs at Mozilla (whom we respect and admire, mind you, they are only human) have been hamsters on a perpetual design fail wheel. They will come out with a code change that users will like for a while and then they will suddenly, sometimes abruptly change it to something else that users don't like as much. They'll then add in a feature where you can return to that other design, before the fuck-up, before eventually deleting it altogether. "It" being the GOOD code that we LIKED.
We've been beating this dead horse for so long now, some of us are starting to believe it can't just fucking die (sorry for any unnecessary visuals back to the days of Red Dead). Then, lo and behold, it did die. The update to 90 killed the UI of Firefox's "Photon" design (going from Proton theme in beta version 89*).
What they were thinking when they removed (or possibly broke, but that's semantics) the buttons and logos in the menu, for one. Second, the tabs were harshly changed to not only not work with beta out-of-the-box (kind of expected for a beta, but x10) but also the stablerelease, too. So, someone - a kind internet stranger - took it upon themselves to fix this broken, junky garbage code written by monkeys.
You can download the code here on their GitHub:
And bask in the glory of non-shit code. It also works in version 89 (and notably also with my OCD) if you still would like to use that one.
Notable fixes include:
Before:
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For a long time, the devs at Mozilla (whom we respect and admire, mind you, they are only human) have been hamsters on a perpetual design fail wheel. They will come out with a code change that users will like for a while and then they will suddenly, sometimes abruptly change it to something else that users don't like as much. They'll then add in a feature where you can return to that other design, before the fuck-up, before eventually deleting it altogether. "It" being the GOOD code that we LIKED.
We've been beating this dead horse for so long now, some of us are starting to believe it can't just fucking die (sorry for any unnecessary visuals back to the days of Red Dead). Then, lo and behold, it did die. The update to 90 killed the UI of Firefox's "Photon" design (going from Proton theme in beta version 89*).
What they were thinking when they removed (or possibly broke, but that's semantics) the buttons and logos in the menu, for one. Second, the tabs were harshly changed to not only not work with beta out-of-the-box (kind of expected for a beta, but x10) but also the stablerelease, too. So, someone - a kind internet stranger - took it upon themselves to fix this broken, junky garbage code written by monkeys.
You can download the code here on their GitHub:
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And bask in the glory of non-shit code. It also works in version 89 (and notably also with my OCD) if you still would like to use that one.
Notable fixes include:
- Icons: Panel
- Padding Narrower:
- Tab
- Panel
- Menu
- Density
- Tab Design:
- Connect with toolbar (Buttons like tabs)
- Box Shadow - Highlight the selected tab
- Bottom Rounding - Natural
- MultiSelected - Adjust Color: Easily recognizable.
- Unselect - Divide Line: React to hover like chrome
- Clipped - Cleary Text: Adjusted clipped gradation
- Sound - Remove Second Label
- Always show favicon
- Pinned - combinded (sic) Close Button: Replace favicon to close button at selected
- Container Tab - Highlight line position: Displayed under favicon.
Before:
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