Commenters focused on Firefox’s new visual redesign, with most objections aimed at the pill-shaped tabs, increased whitespace, inconsistent border radiuses, gradients and perceived loss of density. Several users (anonthrownaway, n4bz0r, develoopest, throwawayAAUGGH) said the rounded tabs break their workflows - especially tab hoarders who prefer vertical or compact rectangular tabs - and some called the change hostile or infantilizing. Others tied the redesign to broader frustrations: clumsysmurf and formerffuser urged prioritizing memory and performance fixes, bananaquant and micromacrofoot raised web-compatibility and adblock concerns, and hatttar and sunaookami asked for better bookmarks, history and session management. Multiple commenters noted workarounds (about:config toggle, userChrome CSS, and community patches on GitHub) and worries about how long rollbacks will remain available.
Opinion split on whether the redesign is a harmless modernizing move or a harmful departure. Some like timpera, hackerbrother and Markoff said it looks good or acceptable with tweaks, while vvarp and FeloniousHam argued that extensions should serve power users and experimentation is fine so long as extension APIs aren’t broken. Others (osener, EvanAnderson, VCFundedGenYer) said repeated redesigns drive them away; glenstein and zawaideh pushed back, pointing to recent releases and existing features like dark mode and tab improvements. Overall the debate centers on aesthetics versus utility and whether Mozilla should prioritize UI refreshes or deeper functional and performance work.
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