I mean I can only think of three use cases: why do we even need a GUI based profile switcher for a browser at all? On the one hand the Chrome one is large and friendly, and reminds me of Netflix's "who's watching?" feature. The chromium project is maintaining perfect balance between usability and modern design, which unfortunately Firefox isn't and we all know which browser has more users and what browser people find more comfortable. If Firefox wants to win (yes, this is a competition) then they have to adapt. You might be comfortable with the browser after having to find workarounds for problems but most folks find these things annoying and they'd rather use browsers like Edge or Chrome than Firefox. These questions come from a viewpoint of an average user.
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Firefox's UI is not 'stable' by any means.įor example, why is the context menu so huge? What's the need for it? Why can't we select multiple history entries from the sidebar? Why does the sidebar still look like something from Windows XP? Why does the downloads list require a separate window? Why is the library not following UWP guidelines? Why do I have extensions listed in the context menu when I can also have them in the top bar? Why can't I turn them off? Why do the constant redesign people resist the change towards keeping UIs stable now that we have figured them out?īecause you haven't figured them out. When you say " the Firefox UI is an actual UI", what you really mean is " I personally prefer the Firefox UI." This is perfectly fine, and I prefer the older look myself too, but be honest about it instead of inventing some bollocks reason to bring the other one down. Things can look modern and provide functionality. I'm all for pointing out the sad hilarity that is designers trying their hand at "minimalism" and removing everything remotely useful from a UI, but that is not the case here. It also apparently does have a "work offline" mode, but it's locked behind one of those feature flags it has. I'm making an assumption that Chrome has the Rename/Delete options behind a menu because fuck using that browser to verify it myself. Both of the interfaces have equivalent functionality.
Sorry, but I don't think this is a fair assessment at all. It's not an art gallery, instead it has functionality, and that functionality is clearly declared! The latter feels like it wants to get stuff done.
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