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Firefox Australis UI
If you are a Firefox user you might not want to use any version past Firefox 24, In Firefox 25 or 26 Mozilla is going to ruin the UI by using a clone of Chrome's UI called Australis . Not only is this fugly it will not be customizable.
I guess when the bulk of your funding comes from Google Mozilla has to obey.
Australis is the name for the new design of Firefox's interface, currently in development. The proposed design will mean future versions of Firefox will be less customizable, which for many years has been one of it's more popular features.
The new design is looking much more minimal. This follows the lead of Google Chrome, which has been eating into the markets of other browsers using simplicity and speed, while not offering the customization options of Firefox.
The proposed new Australis interface is in very early stages, and currently very much under discussion. Here are the current proposed changes:
Join the Stop and Reload buttons into a single button for customizing, like the back/forward buttons.
Prevent back, forward, url bar, stop and reload buttons from leaving the nav-bar or overflowing out of view, while still allowing them to be re-ordered.
Remove the ability to hide the Navigation Toolbar.
Toolbars that are collapsed will not be visible while customizing.
Remove the add-on bar from the core product.
Remove primary UI for adding custom toolbars.
Proposed new Firefox interface will break customizations | News | Softonic
I will use IE 11 before this thing. Doesn't look too much like Chrome does it??