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The new Firefox design is here

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  1. n4bz0r · · focus · HN ↗
    The UI was tidy and nearly perfect, now it's all over the place: weird paddings, different border radiuses even within a single element, clashing background colors, and boy, do I love rainbow gradients everywhere.

    Update: for those unhappy with the changes, you can roll them back for now:

      about:config -> browser.nova.enabled -> false
    1. romanovcode · · focus · HN ↗
      I cannot find a setting to disable the gradient. It's very annoying indeed.
      1. alsetmusic · · focus · HN ↗
        I just turned off auto-updates after reading this. Safe for now.
        1. sunaookami · · focus · HN ↗
          Naive and outright dangerous advice, every release fixes important security issues.
          1. pureliquidhw · · focus · HN ↗
            Then separate UI updates from security updates. No need for them to be bundled. Gradients and insane padding pushing people to not update make them inherently less secure!
            1. mossTechnician · · focus · HN ↗
              It's possible to stick to an ESR release to avoid feature updates in the past, but recently, Mozilla has started bundling feature updates into bugfixes.

              e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.firefox.com&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;152.0.4&#x2F;releasenotes&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.firefox.com&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;152.0.4&#x2F;releasenotes&#x2F;

          2. avazhi · · focus · HN ↗
            &gt; Naive and outright dangerous advice,

            Well maybe the brain damaged mozilla devs shouldn&#x27;t force visual diarrhea down everybody else&#x27;s throat and then users wouldn&#x27;t block updates. If only Mozilla&#x27;s devs could have learned from how people deal with Microsoft and Apple doing similarly asinine redesigns.

          3. Telaneo · · focus · HN ↗
            If users still find that preferable, then that shouls tell you something about how horrible the experience is to users.
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