Genuinely awful. Rectangular favicons will look terrible on rounded tabs. There is no reason whatsoever to round the top bar, the sidebar, the content/viewport area. Simply waste of space and making the browser more of a priority than the content, something a browser should never ever do. If they force this the user’s throats the only saving grace is the ability for 3rd party to provide an alternative to this shitshow.
Oh no redesign the one thing Firefox users can’t stand.
Why do every company need to change design like it is some kind of awful sin not to change ?
Firefox UI is great, the new redesign on mobile is already awful, please don’t change desktop.
Rectangular favicons will look terrible on rounded tabs.
Google, Brave and so on also use rounded Tabs, and it doesn’t look that terrible. So as long as Mozilla’s designers don’t do shit.
Firefox UI is great, the new redesign on mobile is already awful, please don’t change desktop.
Use a FIDO2 device like a Yubikey 5 NFC with a Password/Pin in FireFox and then in Brave.
You will see what looks old and awful.
Probably because they employ designers and feel like they need to get their money’s worth lol
Honestly I don’t hate redesigns generally unless they actually strip functionality or make the interface significantly more confusing/inefficient to navigate. I get bored of looking at the same old layout. Has anyone seen the default “compact” mode on the iOS 26 Safari? That is an atrocious redesign and they don’t make it easy to figure out how to add those buttons back. iOS 26: How to change Safari toolbar design on iPhone - 9to5Mac
And Brave UI is inferior, especially on Desktop. Tabs with different sizes make closing a bunch of them a pain in the ass.
Screenshots?
My guess also.
IMO that’s the case of Firefox new mobile UI. Even if your URL bar is a the top, it pops from the bottom.
Edit:I found a way to disable it actually. If anyone interested here
At first glance I don’t think I mind it. The floating top bar is a little weird though. I’ll probably like it once it releases. I almost always like redesigns even when apparently everyone else hates them.
As long as I could disable the sidebar and any additions on the tool bar, I honestly dont mind. Still, dont fix/change it if it ain’t broken?
Because it is an awful sin not to change, so to speak at least. Culture evolves, and so do the aesthetics that cultures adopt. This is why Windows doesnt look like this anymore
or why browsers dont look like this anymore
or why Gnome looks like this now
or why we dont have this hair style anymore
and so on and so forth
Don’t get me wrong, I also find Firefox’s UI change unnecessary. But I don’t hate them for redesigning it.
I really dont think its that bad lol. If anything, the criticism I have isnt that it looks bad but that they are spending money on this rather where instead they could more developers to secure the gecko engine, amongst other things.
I think the culture of changing for the sake of doing so is a cancer, again so to speak.
You see it with the Liquid Glass BS, and also with the habit of “simplicity” by removing options and info.
I completely agree. Maybe im not as harsh on them as others here because I personally dont find the design that bad.
Google, Brave and so on also use rounded Tabs, and it doesn’t look that terrible. So as long as Mozilla’s designers don’t do shit.
They use tabs with border-radius yes, but not entirely pill shaped like in this Nova design. The pill shape brings the corner of the tab much closer to the square favicon that the rounded rectangle in case of Chrome and other browsers. It isn’t end of the world, but showcases completely unnecessary change that will look worse.
The thing I would ask everyone who doesn’t mind this new UI: what exactly does this improve? Is it more usable in any way? All I see it objective regression in taking away space from the webpage content, most shamelessly by cutting into the corners of webpage. It was completely unjustifiable when Edge did it, and it still is now.
Looks are always subjective, but I don’t see anything in the current Firefox UI that is remotely outdated in the current landscape of UI design. The current fad of maxing out border-radius everywhere has already gotten a lot of public negative feedback for Safari, macOS Tahoe, Windows 11 and so forth. I’m all for iterative improvements in UI, but so much of the changes seem to serve no purpose beyond looking prettier to some in screenshots.
I don’t hate it… I’m happy to see color returning more strongly in design than it has in the last couple of years.
But at the end of the day, as long as it’s not sluggish and not brutal on the battery, shrug haha.
Before I met my wife, I saw the world in a simple utilitarian manner. If it worked, I didn’t care if it looked dated and I preferred more utility over design. Now, however, I do understand that there are people who prefer aesthetically pleasing design over utility (sometimes a lot) and sad fact for you is that they are probably in majority (or getting there with young generations growing). Personally, living with my wife changed me a little bit. I now like if something is aesthetically nice, maybe I still prefer utility although tiny trade-offs are okay now, and I can see why the choice is different sometimes.
Just to add: I don’t find the redesign ugly, but I will wait until I use it to asses if I like it or not.