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On 30/04/14 17:17, bad apple wrote:
It may have been in the channels but the first thing I knew about it was today. I'm attached to old crap interfaces - I've been using it like that for so long its intuitive 0 effort for me to use. I like playing with some new stuff but only if it might give me an advantage. The new interface on FF doesn't offer any advantages to me that I can see - no reduction in mouse travel or clicks as far as I can tell, ymmv but I'm lazy so I like to do the absolute minimum to do what I did and was already there.On 30/04/14 16:08, Neil Winchurst wrote:On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 08:03:35 +0100 Tom <madtom1999@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Just had a firefox update on Ubuntu 13:04 no bookmarks or preferneces or anything Tom te tom te tomHi there Tom, you might like to look at this ... http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/firefox-disable-australis.html I have just upgraded to version 29 and I followed that advice to get back to the look I like. Regards, NeilWow, I think I must be literally the only person in the world who doesn't mind the 'new' interface (which was well advertised, has been in beta/alpha channels for about a year and should have been a surprise to absolutely nobody). The slashdot hatefest yesterday was a real sign of things to come, apparently. I absolutely love the way everyone relentlessly abuses Mozilla (how dare they give us the world's best web browser for free, the bastards!) and curses every single Firefox UI change that comes down the pipe, and then promptly follow convoluted tutorials to stay in the past. But critically, they never actually move off Firefox because deep down they all know it's by far the best game in town. I mean, if you really felt Firefox was somehow letting you down you'd use Chrome, IE or Safari right? Right? Yeah, I didn't think so. Incidentally, not having a go at you Neil - ultimately, it's your browser and you're obviously free to cosmetically rearrange it however you please. Which at least Firefox, even post-Australis, still will absolutely let you do. These new UI wars amuse me, just like the Gnome-shell thing. It's amazing how attached to old crap so many people are, whilst remaining completely blind to the advantages that innovation can sometimes bring. I like playing with new stuff personally. Regards *speaking of old crap, I hope that's a typo Tom: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2014-January/000178.html Raring was EOL'd in January this year...
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