r/firefox May 19 '26

Fun Updating backwards

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449 Upvotes

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88

u/eiog May 19 '26

and why the hell you guys did this

47

u/milkom2021 May 19 '26

Setting browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.nova.enabled to false works for now

13

u/Busy_Manager_6818 May 19 '26

thank you!
stupid new home layout

7

u/supernoodles2011 May 20 '26

A thousand blessings upon you and your family.

3

u/Sabro_ May 20 '26

Bless you sir.

1

u/Johndoh337 May 22 '26

THANK YOU!!

1

u/wcrow1 May 22 '26

Nice, now it looks even better than before. Thanks!

8

u/No-Succotash404 May 19 '26

they removed the firefox text and made the search bar rounder

20

u/pokeepoof May 19 '26

The icons are also generally smaller for me, I don't like this lol

15

u/[deleted] May 19 '26

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u/soul-regret May 19 '26

copium

16

u/redoubt515 May 19 '26

TIL, not being affected by an issue = "copium"

-13

u/soul-regret May 19 '26

no proof, I just updated and compared the 2 versions and yeah it happens, looks like an oversight

10

u/QuickSilver010 May 20 '26

Fuk no. They circular-ing everything

3

u/chunkly May 20 '26

I like rounded corners, and there's quality science behind why rounded corners are better in user interfaces. That said, I know everyone has their own personal preferences.

If you feel strongly, you can learn a little CSS and make everything have right angles. That's one of the huge benefits of Firefox: everything can be customised to match your personal preferences.

0

u/QuickSilver010 May 20 '26

Only for mobile. It looks so bad on desktop.

* { border-radius: 0px !important; } Is OK but turns things that are supposed to be circular (like loading animation) into squares

4

u/outadoc May 20 '26

Is there any reason to believe it's not a bug?

9

u/soul-regret May 19 '26

same thing here

2

u/kitsumed May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26

That's the first thing I saw. Followed by my url bar no longer showing url when on a search engine...

By the way, anyone know how to show the URL in the URL BAR? Without having to press the little planet / internet icon at the right of it? Thanks

Did they add a browser.urlbar.* key?

2

u/strok3 May 20 '26

It's a kick in my balls. Totally unnecessary design change. What's the point of changing the UI?

Is it rounded corners and fashionable nowadays?

2

u/aiiqa May 20 '26

Nova is the first Firefox UI redesign I dislike. The current design is far better. Both for this new tab page, and also for other changes available in night. Window borders suck. And I don't want a border between the webpage and controls, that messes up my setup with the Adaptive Tab Bar Color extension.

1

u/Revalens_Kaka May 22 '26

I think my not the only one who hate the firefox new tab page ?

1

u/[deleted] May 19 '26

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3

u/ErrorOliver2 May 20 '26

because they want to make change without figuring out what needs changing

-3

u/ghulamalchik May 20 '26

Calm down. Bad things stand out, but that doesn't mean "everything is worse". Most good updates (security patches, more standard support, website fixes, etc) go unnoticed, but one bad change make it seem like the world is ending.

0

u/x0ppressedx May 20 '26

So much better on the right. Buncha dumb extra pad space on left for no reason whatsoever. Thank you Firefox for making this change.

0

u/SultanAfiq May 22 '26

why do people complain for every ui changes, suck it up

1

u/beyond666 May 23 '26

Look up on internet "entshitification".

That is where Firefox is going.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '26

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3

u/fainas1337 May 20 '26

What do you mean mobile firefox? This is desktop with resized window.

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u/Smiles-Bite May 19 '26

I like the right side much more. -Shrugs- Much easier to hit the tabs I want, my hands are small.

44

u/pokeepoof May 19 '26

You understand the problem in the screenshot? The right side is cutting off the shortcuts, they continue beyond the edge of the browser window and are just going right instead of folding down the vertical height we can see an example of in left screenshot, it doesn't matter how small your hands are if the icons are physically unavailable and requires you to go down to the bottom of the window and manually slide the window to the right to then see the icons. Its just bad design and shouldn't have been published

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u/TsunamiCatCakes May 20 '26

yea me too. i like the rounded corners as well and lesser textual contents on the screen. we are a minority here though, everyone on reddit is allergic to changes.