Posted on 05/15/2014 7:38:28 AM PDT by CedarDave
Some Firefox users, cranky about the overhaul of the browser's user interface, have scrambled to find ways to make the latest version look more like older editions.
Two weeks ago, Mozilla launched Firefox 29, the first production-grade version that sported the new "Australis" UI. The visual redesign, the most dramatic for Firefox since March 2011, was Mozilla's attempt to both streamline the browser's look and feel and standardize it across all platforms, from desktop to mobile.
Many of Australis' visual changes were subtle, such as more rounded tabs, inactive tabs that faded deeper into the background and a revamped customization panel. Australis also dumped the orange-colored Firefox menu in Windows, an element that first popped up in Firefox 4.
Some people balked at the changes.
"After updating to [Firefox] 29.0.1 I could barely use Firefox," complained a user identified as pdrummond on May 9, writing on MozillaZine, a third-party discussion board. "It's taken me an hour to get the UI back to a usable state and I'm more than a little annoyed."
"This is useless, please do not copy the Google Chrome," someone identified as imdawe said yesterday, also on MozillaZine. "WE DO NOT WANT GOOGLE CHROME UI. If we want that then we would use Google Chrome."
(Excerpt) Read more at computerworld.com ...
Dunno what to tell you, but auto-update is on, and up until a few days ago, my refresh was in the far left, before the addy bar, right next to Back/fwd... Now it is not, and cannot.
Maybe I multi-browser too much. I know IE has the refresh in the bar, Chrome has it way on the left. I can’t remember when FF had it on the left, I suppose it could have been last week’s version but I don’t think so. Maybe it used to be movable and I didn’t move it.
I'm currently on v14. I'll never upgrade.
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