Firefox is starting to look like Chrome

[life0riley]

Firefox 29 has a new interface.
Upcoming Firefox 29 features redesign, simplified Firefox Sync

I liked the old look, but things are changing. I'm not the only that feels this way, but I'm really not as upset as some of these people who replied here.
How to turn the new Firefox 29 into the old Firefox

[GreyGeek]

I tried Chromium and Chrome and hated them.

There is an old saying: If it is not broken then don't fix it!"

IF someone wanted to run a Chrome-like browser all they need to do is switched to Chrome. FireFox playing "me too" will force me to switch to another browser, or it will encourage a fork of FireFox.

What I don't like about the new interface is that it takes the power out of my hands and either hides it or removes it. Either way, if I can't restore FireFox to pre-29 functionality I'll be dropping FireFox. FireFox remaining my browser depends on how well the "Classic FireFox Theme Restorer" works.

[whatthefunk]

If only we had a full featured KDE browser....

[ronw]

I run two versions of Firefox every day. Current for work stuff, Aurora for personal stuff.

Aurora has had the new interface for a few weeks now. I'm surprised to say that it has grown on me and I prefer it now.

[GreyGeek]

True...but until then I just switched to Iceweasel from Debian's unstable branch. At least it will be supported.
(I added the unstable branch to sources.list, upgraded, installed iceeweasel and commented out the unstable branch.)
Iceweasel is FireFox 28 without the branding.
And, I went into systemsetting -->default applications-->browsers
and set my default browser to iceweasel.

[life0riley]

If only we had a full featured KDE browser....

Same here...and with flash support.


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[dibl]

I was a devoted firefox user from sometime around 1990, both Windows and Linux, until about 4-5 years ago when there was a period that the npviewer for flash would leak memory and run my CPU up to 100%, for me to discover in the morning. After fighting that for awhile, I decided to give chromium-browser a spin, and under duress, I got used to it. Today I'm using the air-oxygen-color window decorations on the air desktop theme, and to be honest chrome does not look at all out of place on KDE 4.12 desktop. Or so I see it. I use ghostery, adblock, and adblock-plus extensions, and I change the browser cache to the /run/user tmpfs, so the cache automatically gets wiped out upon either a reboot or a shutdown of the user session. I do have iceweasel installed for the occasional grumpy website issue, usually some bank or other transaction-processing site. But I don't use it much anymore.

[NickStone]

If you don't like the new Firefox in ya face (interface) but you still want a Mozilla browser then give seamonkey a try. It is like Netscape of old but using Mozilla's rendering engine.

[pauly]

I was worried about it but the browser integrates with kde much better than before. Takes on color scheme, uses menus, just looks a lot better. Very impressed.

[pauly]

Im using qtcurve so...

http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/k...ps0bfe0f9f.png

[MoonRise]

Seems fine on this end. Don't know if for real but seems quicker actually. I'm fine with it.

[whatthefunk]

Just upgraded. It will take some getting used to, but seems fine. It does seem quicker.

[Danum]

Just upgraded. It will take some getting used to, but seems fine. It does seem quicker.

Now all you need to do is enable the menu bar and Bookmarks toolbar, and you have the best of both worlds.
Looking at some of the comments around the net is laughable. A bit of a song and dance about nothing, is my view.

[MoonRise]

Actually for once I turned off the Menu Bar. The "Hamburger" menu seems actually useable.

[whatthefunk]

Now all you need to do is enable the menu bar and Bookmarks toolbar, and you have the best of both worlds.
Looking at some of the comments around the net is laughable. A bit of a song and dance about nothing, is my view.

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I like the bookmark sidebar. As long as a browser has that, Im failry satisfied. I dont care so much about menus....once I get it set up, I should very rarely have to go into the menus.