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Firefox 89 for Mac Released With Cleaner Design, Multi-Touch Zoom, and More

Truly ugly to me. I'm not sure why everywhere people change looks of apps and pages - probably to make sure they stay employed.
I'm sure I'll get used to it but it seems like such a waste and a lot of white space
 
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star-affinity said:
Pic or it's not true. :)
I'll grab a screen shot later – can't right now.
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I'm not sure which one you're talking about but this is from the hamburger menu:

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and this is from the toolbar:

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Is there another bookmarks dropdown I'm not thinking of?




EDIT: I just read your post again and realised what you're talking about. I checked a bookmarks folder from the bookmarks bar (I honestly haven't seen that thing in months) and it is indded light grey—not quite light mode but definitely not dark.

I'll leave my post up as a shame tribute for talking without reading properly.
 
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Trying it out on Mac. The tab is different, but really pulls your eye to the current tab, so seems okay. I think can learn to like this - Firefox is my daily driver across multiple platforms and hardware vendors.

Ah, could right click and remove the pocket thing in the end of the toolbar, nice. You can still have your own search bar on the end, nice. Everything else seems pretty stable. Okay I'm happy.

Absolutely hate they went full Chrome for the navigation button area. They've always had a round button. Was someone who used to wear a skin on the buttons back when Firefox supported that, depressing where they went there. But whatever.
 
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Just updated... Firefox is my main browser and the update looks good to me!

For those wondering about the tabs: on my 13" MBP putting the tabs in the bar at the top saves quite a bit of screen real-estate. On my Mac Pro it doesn't matter much - but the smaller your screen is the better it will be.
 
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Vjosullivan said:
What does it do that would want me to switch away from the default browser?
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It has a much more developed extension ecosystem than safari. These extensions provide all kinds of functionality that is currently not available in safari. One extension that I personally simply can't give up is mouse gestures which allows you to bind various mouse gestures to different browser actions. But there are a ton more.
 
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Vjosullivan said:
What does it do that would want me to switch away from the default browser?
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I assume you are talking Safari, the default browser on a Mac. It allows for Ublock Orgin which is a HUGE win for any browser (blocks so much BS, never see ads in youtube etc).

I have a love hate relationship with Safari. I want it to be my default browser and then I hit a page that just falls apart and I move back to Firefox.
 
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Looks ok to me. As long as it doesn't lag excessively or crash, im ok
 
TheMacDaddy1 said:
I assume you are talking Safari, the default browser on a Mac. It allows for Ublock Orgin which is a HUGE win for any browser (blocks so much BS, never see ads in youtube etc).

I have a love hate relationship with Safari. I want it to be my default browser and then I hit a page that just falls apart and I move back to Firefox.
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This. I fully switched over to Safari a few years back, but then Apple killed/locked down extensions. I tried out all the options and finally settled on Edge, but I often rotate over to Firefox to see if it's good enough to use full time. It's hasn't been yet, but fingers crossed it gets there. I do really like it overall.
 
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macsound1 said:
This is how I feel about Safari in Big Sur. The most obvious thing about FF and Safari's diverging opinons is where the + for new tab should be.
At least FF has it next to your existing tabs, like how safari used to.
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Just gave it a test drive on Windows 10, I can keep the old design there.
Can this be done on the Mac side?
 
I love it, and I'm a big fan of Firefox.

My disappointment: the home/start page. The icons are smaller, with a lot of information that we don't need (that each page is pinned or not). Should be more polished, minimalist.
 
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boss.king said:
This. I fully switched over to Safari a few years back, but then Apple killed/locked down extensions. I tried out all the options and finally settled on Edge, but I often rotate over to Firefox to see if it's good enough to use full time. It's hasn't been yet, but fingers crossed it gets there. I do really like it overall.
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I tried Edge since my company is full on Office 365 and its now the company default browser on Windows. Its not bad, but I feel like Microsoft was updating it almost weekly and just moving stuff around. I know some of that is Google pushing things like the downloads that moved from the bottom, where I like it to the top right and now it drops down and blocks my view. Ctrl-H for History no longer works either...and change for change sake.

I like Firefox for little reasons I probably only care about.

If I like a picture on the Internet, want to make it my wallpaper, you can do that with a right click in Safari, Internet Explorer or FireFox. With Chromium browsers you need to download the photos, then go through preferences to change it.

Or we have lots of internal stuff I get to in IT, like firewalls etc that have self signed certs, which is just so much easier to deal with in FF. With Edge/Chrome I have to click through that bs everytime.

Also FF and Safari are the ONLY browsers that truly stop Auto Play. I have tried with Chrome and Edge to find and extension that does this but some stuff always gets through.

I absolutely love the Picture in Picture video player in FF. I am working on something and listenting to a YouTube video that I want to see the video from time to time, I can have it playing down in a corner at whatever size I want while working.

I think FF has the best Bookmarks management features as well. Safari is badly lacking here and even Chromium based browsers are behind FF.

Lastly FF is on every OS I have to use..Mac, Windows and Linux.
 
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velocityg4 said:
I've been using a Dark Theme for years now. Didn't even realize they didn't have a native theme.

As for Zoom. I don't like the implementation. I'd rather it pinch to scale than pinch to zoom.
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That's where you would use CMD-+/- to scale.
This way you have two separate controls for separate functions. Before you only had scale.
Using pinch to zoom instead of scale seems more consistent with use in other apps.
 
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