> Kinda astounding how the firefox v1 was not great but ok, and it got overall worse in literally every redesign since then. v1 remains the best UI firefox has ever had to this day.
As someone who's been using it since the phoenix/firebird days, I disagree strongly. There have been hiccups along the way (particularly the tabs appearance in proton), but in general the UI has gotten significantly better with each redesign. Looking back at the v1-3 UI all I can see is how much vertical screen real estate is wasted on things I would very rarely click.
I don't believe there was any way to move the tabs into the title bar and to combine all the file/edit/etc into a single button in the same vertical space as the URL bar. Those are the two changes that make the modern interface so much more compact. Maybe it could've been done with extensions.
The argument is similar to that with any major UI change - I have one coworker who still complains about the Microsoft Office Ribbon UI. For casual and newer users, the old office UI was tedious and cumbersome hunt down whatever you want from the dozens of icons and buttons. The newer layout may require several clicks for power users to do something they used to do in one. I found it mildly annoying when it first changed, but I committed to it and now I find it much more usable. Same situation with Firefox.
I hate the tabs in the title bar. The bar is for the title. How do you drag the window on the screen now in standard OS you grab the title bat with the mouse and drag.
But then again I must have vertical tabs so ideally just kill the tab bar.
I almost never drag a browser window, it's always full screen. Occasionally I want to switch it from one screen to another, I just grab an empty space on the title bar - it's never been an issue for me
I have zero use for an actual title bar - it's a waste of 24 vertical pixels
As someone who's been using it since the phoenix/firebird days, I disagree strongly. There have been hiccups along the way (particularly the tabs appearance in proton), but in general the UI has gotten significantly better with each redesign. Looking back at the v1-3 UI all I can see is how much vertical screen real estate is wasted on things I would very rarely click.