It doesn't justify shitty UX decisions, no. But it does alleviate the pain you experience when companies (inevitably) do fuck up something you depend on.
If the same happened in Chrome or Safari you would have the same chance of adjusting the browser UI as you have adjusting the UX of your toaster (none [or with a lot of work]).
Instead, Firefox lets power users be power users, installing extensions that completely changes the UI or adding your own stylesheets for customizations like the ones mentioned in this submission.
So booo to the team doing the UX change, yay to Firefox for letting me fix their own mistakes without having to wait for it to be deployed.
> Most people already have an association with typical tab UIs. Why change this fundamental perception into something more generic and ambiguous?
This was probably said about tabs vs windows when tabs first appeared in browsers as well. Why introduce a different concept when you can already have many windows?! People seem to prefer tabs today, so sometimes going against the wind is a good thing. Problem is that you don't know what will be good until you throw that thing at people and they tell/show you their reaction.
> This was probably said about tabs vs windows when tabs first appeared in browsers as well. Why introduce a different concept when you can already have many windows?!
You can justify any bad changes this way and "probably" means you don't know but you just made it up to justify. Tabs made things better we all new when that happend. What good thing the designers thought to introduce this change like in the tabs?
These designers have nothing to do at office if they don't. Basically we all are lab rats with every new shiny device or app version that hits now a days. Anyone having fun re-learning new gestures on mobile devices every 2 years?
I applaud the Firefox team to make it possible to customize the UI at such level and I hope that it spawns a lot of beautiful plugins.
My biggest gripe is that the default UI doesn’t look like a typical default UI. It looks like a third party plugin that’ll most likely confuse more people than with a plain boring UI.
> This was probably said about tabs vs windows when tabs first appeared in browsers as well
Tabs is a way to group related so windows which useful if you have many of them. And AFIR tabs in browsers was very welcomed by users, unlike today’s nonstop UI churn.
It doesn't justify shitty UX decisions, no. But it does alleviate the pain you experience when companies (inevitably) do fuck up something you depend on.
If the same happened in Chrome or Safari you would have the same chance of adjusting the browser UI as you have adjusting the UX of your toaster (none [or with a lot of work]).
Instead, Firefox lets power users be power users, installing extensions that completely changes the UI or adding your own stylesheets for customizations like the ones mentioned in this submission.
So booo to the team doing the UX change, yay to Firefox for letting me fix their own mistakes without having to wait for it to be deployed.
> Most people already have an association with typical tab UIs. Why change this fundamental perception into something more generic and ambiguous?
This was probably said about tabs vs windows when tabs first appeared in browsers as well. Why introduce a different concept when you can already have many windows?! People seem to prefer tabs today, so sometimes going against the wind is a good thing. Problem is that you don't know what will be good until you throw that thing at people and they tell/show you their reaction.