A radical Firefox redesign in 2021

[xanthon]

For many years I have been moving addons' icons to the menubar (along with Bookmark Toolbar Items). There is plenty of room there and I am glad now that I particularly don't use the bookmarks bar because Mozilla seems to have had so much trouble with it.

[slickrcbd]

I did the same thing when they removed the extra toolbars and found I could now drag stuff to the menu bars (used to be impossible in early versions).
What I haven't been able to cope with is removing the bookmark descriptions.
Especially since I hadn't been paying attention to the change log when Firefox automatically updated and it caught me by surprise when it removed all the descriptions.
I had literally thousands of fanfic bookmarks with the story summaries along with author names in the description field. There even used to be a Greasmonkey script to automatically add that to any bookmark made on Fanfiction.net.
With that field removed it makes remembering which story is which based just on the title virtually impossible when somebody is doing a fic search on another board and I know I've read the story in question, but that was another rant from years ago.

[Snake4]

wonder if they'll Make 89 that Proton Release or will 90 be that?

[WaltS48]

wonder if they'll Make 89 that Proton Release or will 90 be that?

89

[Baldape]

I hope they don't remove the menu you know the File Edit View History Bookmarks Tools Help toolbar.

[Snake4]

I hope they don't remove the menu you know the File Edit View History Bookmarks Tools Help toolbar.

they wont take that away. still to many use that still. i do in Thunderbird

[slickrcbd]

Like they won't take away the bookmark descriptions?
The additional toolbars?
The RSS feeds?
Legacy extensions and more importantly the features they used that are no longer supported in the name of security?

That just off the top of my head.

[Snake4]

Like they won't take away the bookmark descriptions?
The additional toolbars?
The RSS feeds?
Legacy extensions and more importantly the features they used that are no longer supported in the name of security?

That just off the top of my head.

im pretty sure you can still use RSS feeds in an email client
Legacy Extensions the way they used to Hook into XUL or whatever it is, was a security problem. if you dont care for security, give me ya IP address
bookmark Discriptions , was a pointless feature to begin with

[therube]

Legacy Extensions the way they used to Hook into XUL or whatever it is, was a security problem.

And "webextensions" (you know, the holy grail) are secure .

(Heh. Been a long time since I've looked, & it looks like they've stopped "updating" it - or, there has been no reason to have it updated - since November 2020: Blocked Add-ons [you know, because webextensions are secure :evilgrin:.)

[smsmith]

Like they won't take away the bookmark descriptions?
bookmark Discriptions , was a pointless feature to begin with

I used it for fanfic bookmarks, before the "keywords" or "Tags" fields were in place, going back to the days of Netscape Navigator. I used to have a Greasemonkey script to automatically fill in the author and summaries on FF.net.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51097342431_6f8c77e872_o.jpg
BookmarksDescription by slickrcbd, on Flickr

[Snake4]

as i said it was a useless an baseless feature. i dont see other browsers with it, but thats besides the point of this thread. please dont derail it.

[Snake4]

update of the settings here https://www.ghacks.net/2021/04/03/firef ... at-is-new/

[charscot]

Relieved to see the compact mode is not going after all, although they could have just kept it rather than this "middle ground" option.

https://www.ghacks.net/2021/04/07/mozil ... ting-ones/

[robobox]

It seems like Proton was enabled by default for me on 89 Nightly. It looks fine so far.

[smsmith]

Something is off about the shadow on the bookmarks menu button. It has a gap of a couple of pixels off to the right and bottom edge of the menu. But only on the main bookmarks menu, looks ok for the subfolder menus. Happens on two different computers of mine. Anybody else seeing that? No. I have not yet tried in safe mode.

Edit: Looks the same in safe mode.

Edit 2: Someone must have heard me complaining. It's fixed on one machine now. Will check on the other tomorrow morning!