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[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Incidentally Chrome does the same. What a coincidence, is it not?

I doubt it's a coincident, Firefox/Opera/Safari have had this behaviour for years, I'm sure the Chrome guys decided to follow it.

[rsnn]

So tomorrow its the day :rofl:

[Kyang]

None right now I know of. Sorry... I don't workup much on this.

 

 

Tab Mix Plus has always been my go-to for anything tab related.  Can customize all sorts of things with them.  No idea how well it works with Nightly.. working fine with 29RC though. Looking briefly at their forums reports that the official build is problematic, but there's talk with the dev builds.  Classic Theme Restorer has an option for the close tab buttons too.

 

Thanks for the replies.  I checked up on the bug again, and someone in the comments posted this:

 

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/no-close-buttons/

 

Restartless, does what it says on the tin (and only that.)  :)  .

[+Zlip792 MVC]

Thanks for the replies.  I checked up on the bug again, and someone in the comments posted this:

 

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/no-close-buttons/

 

Restartless, does what it says on the tin (and only that.)  :)  .

 

Thanks for sharing it for all people.  :)

[rsnn]

Australis addons :)

• Australis Slimmr offers several design related changes including options to compress the navigation bar items, to display tabs always in the titlebar, or to auto-hide the navbar.
• Classic Bookmarks Button restores the old bookmarks button.
• Classic Toolbar Buttons restores old toolbar button elements.
• Firefox Tab Mod restores rectangular tabs to.
• Lightweight Themes for Australis reduces the impact of lightweight themes (formerly Personas) and visibility control options to go along better with Australis.
• New Add-on Bar restores the bottom toolbar that you can use to place extension icons in. Alternative: The Addon Bar (restored) or The Puzzle Piece.
• NoUn Buttons: Unmerge Back & Forward Buttons / Menus.
• Star Button in urlbar. Adds the bookmark star button back to the Firefox url bar.
• Tabs on Bottom moves the browser tabs back to the bottom of the toolbars.

[escobar_]

So tomorrow its the day :rofl:

Or today's the day taking in consideration that 29.0 is available at Mozilla's FTP server. :-D

[Syanide]

How do I switch to stable channel?

 

EDIT: Nevermind, I can use Google after all.

[rsnn]

My Firefox just updated automatically(Strange because its too early lol) and ForecastFox was not working(2.2.2). After looking a little bit you can install 2.2.4(Not yet from Firefox addons page)and that version its working perfectly

 

https://static.getforecastfox.com/downloads/forecastfox-latest.xpi

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Firefox 29 has now officially been launched: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/29/mozilla-introduces-the-most-customizable-firefox-ever-with-an-elegant-new-design/

[Lamp0]

I find the lack of an inactive tab graphic just doesn't look right on Windows 8. It's actually kind of distracting. And I am using the normal blue color for the theme.

[ViperAFK]

I find the lack of an inactive tab graphic just doesn't look right on Windows 8. It's actually kind of distracting. And I am using the normal blue color for the theme.

Yeah, it looks really nice with win7 aero, and with osx...but not so much win win8's solid background color. I've been just using the fxchrome theme on windows 8 ;)

[Lamp0]

Also, the inactive tab text being black means it will have the same problem the active window tilt text does under certain color themes in Windows 8

 

Is there an way for me to just add a custom inactive tab graphic to the default theme?

[:B: Rex]

i see 29 is out and i must say for me i think it is very ugly. why does it have to copy chrome? i dont want to upgrade if it wont work or look how i would like.

i have a few questions i hope you can answer

 

tabs - i hate tabs and never use then as i use multiple monitors. can you disable tabs? i use an extension to hide tabs if only 1 tab showing as i dont like wasted space.

bookmarks toolbar - i havent seen it in any screenshots with it so is it still there? the toolbar i use has many folders holding many bookmarks. i want easy access to bookmarks.

personas - i love the custom backgrounds personas give you, ive always used my own so i really want to keep using this.

[Tobias Brown]

Chrome all the way :P
 

 

I do like what Mozilla have been doing recently, but once you've used one certain browser for many many many hours - its hard to change.

 

The guy who created the Firefox icon lives next door to me, so theres always some geeky jokes flying around our houses ;)

[Lamp0]

why does it have to copy chrome?

 

I don't understand why people keep saying this...

 

How has it copied chrome?

[Max Norris]

tabs - i hate tabs and never use then as i use multiple monitors. can you disable tabs? i use an extension to hide tabs if only 1 tab showing as i dont like wasted space.

bookmarks toolbar - i havent seen it in any screenshots with it so is it still there? the toolbar i use has many folders holding many bookmarks. i want easy access to bookmarks.

personas - i love the custom backgrounds personas give you, ive always used my own so i really want to keep using this.

Tabs - Yes, your addon probably still works. Using Tab Mix Plus myself, although even with three displays I personally don't use this option myself. On the display page of its configuration is an option to hide the tab bar when there's only one tab open, or hide it always if you're pining for a retro look.

Bookmarks Toolbar - Yup, still there.

Personas - Still there too.

It's really not hard to get it to look and feel like the pre-Australis versions, still stupidly flexible as always, something Chrome can't touch.

How has it copied chrome?

Probably referring to the minimalistic look, they do kinda sorta resemble each other now out of the box. Fortunately easily changed if you don't care for the Chrome look.

[Indoobidubly]

I don't understand why people keep saying this...

 

How has it copied chrome?

 

1.  Tabs on bottom no longer an option.

2.  Rounded tabs that looks almost identical to Chrome's

3.  Lack of user customization, like Chrome.

 

FF 29 is a disaster.

[Brandon H Supervisor]

1.  Tabs on bottom no longer an option.

2.  Rounded tabs that looks almost identical to Chrome's

3.  Lack of user customization, like Chrome.

 

FF 29 is a disaster.

1. you can still get that with addons or even css scripts if you prefer

2. the tabs in firefox are fully round where the tabs in chrome are angular like minella envelopes. how is that almost identical? what do you expect them to do? make them triangles?

3. there is still plenty of user customization, especially if you install addons. I refer you to this post if you want addons to make firefox look like it was before

 

firefox 29 works just fine. i've been using it for awhile in beta. and i quite like the new theme. the only change i've made with an addon was add the addons bar back for forecastfox

[Indoobidubly]

1. you can still get that with addons or even css scripts if you prefer

2. the tabs in firefox are fully round where the tabs in chrome are angular like minella envelopes. how is that almost identical? what do you expect them to do? make them triangles?

3. there is still plenty of user customization, especially if you install addons. I refer you to this post if you want addons to make firefox look like it was before

 

firefox 29 works just fine. i've been using it for awhile in beta. and i quite like the new theme. the only change i've made with an addon was add the addons bar back for forecastfox

 

I can guarantee you that Mozilla will eventually back off of Firefox 29 the same way Microsoft backed off of Windows 8.

[ViperAFK]

1.  Tabs on bottom no longer an option.

2.  Rounded tabs that looks almost identical to Chrome's

3.  Lack of user customization, like Chrome.

 

FF 29 is a disaster.

There's still plenty of user customization, *especially* compared to chrome. Chrome allows absolutely zero toolbar or menu customization. fx 29 allows you to add/remove items from the toolbar, as well as from the new menu. And as always, extensions and themes give many, many more customization options, far more than whats available from other browsers.

 

And I echo the comment above, the new tab strip does *not* look like chrome's, I can't fathom where people are getting this comparison from. if anything the new tab strip looks less like chrome's than the old one.

 

Chrome's tab strip is designed to look like tabs on a manilla envelope, all tabs have the same look, except inactive tabs are slightly transparent. With australis the curved shape is much more pronounced, and not designed with the manilla envelope look in mind, and the inactive tabs look totally different, almost completely blended into the background. They are not 'chrome-like' tabs...

[Brandon H Supervisor]

I can guarantee you that Mozilla will eventually back off of Firefox 29 the same way Microsoft backed off of Windows 8.

and i guarantee you they wont. there's no reason too. the only downside of the new theme is the addon bar was removed. everything else is pretty much the same or improved

 

the new settings button has features that the firefox button lacked plus just like before you can still access the classic file menu by pressing alt

 

sync has been improved greatly as well (but you probably don't care about that because it's not actually part of the theme)

 

there are plenty of other things in the back end as well there are being improved but you still don't care because you just don't like how it looks by default now

 

/end rant

[Kyang]

There's still plenty of user customization, *especially* compared to chrome. Chrome allows absolutely zero toolbar or menu customization. fx 29 allows you to add/remove items from the toolbar, as well as from the new menu. And as always, extensions and themes give many, many more customization options, far more than whats available from other browsers.

 

And I echo the comment above, the new tab strip does *not* look like chrome's, I can't fathom where people are getting this comparison from. if anything the new tab strip looks less like chrome's than the old one.

 

They see a rounded tab, and their mind is set.  That's how it is for almost everything.  :/  .

[Indoobidubly]

and i guarantee you they wont. there's no reason too. the only downside of the new theme is the addon bar was removed. everything else is pretty much the same or improved

 

the new settings button has features that the firefox button lacked plus just like before you can still access the classic file menu by pressing alt

 

sync has been improved greatly as well (but you probably don't care about that because it's not actually part of the theme)

 

there are plenty of other things in the back end as well there are being improved but you still don't care because you just don't like how it looks by default now

 

/end rant

 

I just screen capped this post.  So when Mozilla does back off all this nonsense, I can rub it in your arrogant face.  Same way I did to Dot Matrix with his "Start Menu is never coming back to Windows 8" nonsense.

[Boo Berry]

Well, they may not completely back off it. They may make some compromises instead to make everyone happy - just like Microsoft has with Windows 8.

[Brandon H Supervisor]

I just screen capped this post.  So when Mozilla does back off all this nonsense, I can rub it in your arrogant face.  Same way I did to Dot Matrix with his "Start Menu is never coming back to Windows 8" nonsense.

with the start screen i can understand. it takes up the entire screen and has a few features from the menu missing. neither is the case with the new theme or settings button.

 

the way it seems to me is you're calling the new theme crap just because you cant have the tabs on the bottom anymore. you're blowing things way out of proportion and refusing to look at everything else