Hands-on with Firefox’s new “Australis” interface

So "Mozilla-Chrome" has finally arrived

Means now Chromium becomes the secondary lead role on all my computers at home. Because i do not need a copybrowser.

But for now Firefox 22 stays installed too as my Main Browser until i see what happens with Cyberfox. When Cyberfox manages to evade "Mozilla-Chrome" when it switches to the Australis Code Base it will be a hard choice between Cyberfox and Palemoon.

If Cyberfox fails, Palemoon is also on a chanceless mission and Chromium it will be fulltime.

Lets see how it turns out

 

Mozilla report: Vast majority unhappy with Australis

http://www.ghacks.net/2013/11/23/80-unhappy-firefoxs-australis-interface-mozilla-report-states/

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/firefox-dev/2013-November/001180.html

 

" ... more than 80% of Firefox users who commented on the interface are unhappy with it."

I thought that their policy was to listen to end users.

 

To be honest, if you listen to the random guy, we now wouldn't have computers. In fact if I had a cent for every person I heard saying that "the past" was better than now I'd be the richest man on this planet.

 

True, but when 80% of the users say they don't like something, they should listen. Same goes for the infamous Windows 8. They'll all learn the hard way...

 

This guy?

Yeah, people forget things in the past that weren't so good like the Black Death, serfdom & dial-up.

 

I like Chrome's tabs, they're pretty slick. So I have nothing against Mozilla trying to change and improve theirs, but Australis looks like it was created by a two year old.

 

What is slick about Chrome tabs? They are incredibly annoying, once you open 15-20 tabs they all shrink so you can see nothing, there's no title bar, no multiple rows, its literally the worst of all possible worlds.

 

Mozilla’s Australis survey: Tell them what you think of it

http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1470920/Survey-Nightly-29

http://www.ghacks.net/2013/12/26/mozillas-australis-survey-gives-chance-tell-think/

 

Re: Mozilla’s Australis survey: Tell them what you think of it

If you want an add-on for Firefox 26 that changes the interface to Australis, go to their add-on store: Australis ReDesign 26.2.2. Bty - the menu button is on the left side.

 

Firefox’s new Australis interface on track for April or June release

Firefox’s new Australis interface on track for April or June release.

-- Tom

 

Nothing to do with the past. Pure and simple functionality.
Sometimes, older things can look better.
Mrk