Firefox 29 arrives with new UI
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Mozilla today officially launched Firefox 29 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. This is a massive release: Firefox Sync has been revamped and is now powered by Firefox Accounts, there’s a new customization mode, and the company’s major user interface overhaul Australis has finally arrived.
We've been waiting a long time for Australis. Let's see how it stacks up.
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Mozilla today officially launched Firefox 29 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. This is a massive release: Firefox Sync has been revamped and is now powered by Firefox Accounts, there’s a new customization mode, and the company’s major user interface overhaul Australis has finally arrived.
We've been waiting a long time for Australis. Let's see how it stacks up.
...and it now looks even more like Chrome with the menu moved to the right. It makes me sad.
cheers Chris Maunder
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Mozilla today officially launched Firefox 29 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. This is a massive release: Firefox Sync has been revamped and is now powered by Firefox Accounts, there’s a new customization mode, and the company’s major user interface overhaul Australis has finally arrived.
We've been waiting a long time for Australis. Let's see how it stacks up.
It's had a mixed reception. Roughly, people who like Chrome like it because it looks more like Chrome and people who don't like it hate it because it looks more like Chrome! It's also been advertised as being more customisable than before when in fact it's less customisable. Which is another reason why many don't like it.
Kevin
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Mozilla today officially launched Firefox 29 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. This is a massive release: Firefox Sync has been revamped and is now powered by Firefox Accounts, there’s a new customization mode, and the company’s major user interface overhaul Australis has finally arrived.
We've been waiting a long time for Australis. Let's see how it stacks up.
[rambling rant] Oh great. It'll probably break the current selenium-webdriver version I'm using for all the feature testing for my client's code, and quite possibly, if selenium isn't updated yet, not work until the driver is updated. Happily though, I turned off Firefox's automatic update because this wasted literally a day when the browser automatically upgraded to v26 from v25 (I think that was the version change.) And of course, the last time I updated selenium to work with FF v27, it also caused weird anomalies when the tests were run, requiring inserting "And then I see..." in various places (all of which could only be determined by running and fixing each and every scenario, sometimes in multiple places) to get things to sync up before a "Then I click on..." call. Anticipating much GRRRR.. [/rambling rant]
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...and it now looks even more like Chrome with the menu moved to the right. It makes me sad.
cheers Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote:
...and it now looks even more like Chrome with the menu moved to the right.
I was getting frustrated with that until I found "Classic Theme Restorer" and then removed the ugly menu from the right.
John
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[rambling rant] Oh great. It'll probably break the current selenium-webdriver version I'm using for all the feature testing for my client's code, and quite possibly, if selenium isn't updated yet, not work until the driver is updated. Happily though, I turned off Firefox's automatic update because this wasted literally a day when the browser automatically upgraded to v26 from v25 (I think that was the version change.) And of course, the last time I updated selenium to work with FF v27, it also caused weird anomalies when the tests were run, requiring inserting "And then I see..." in various places (all of which could only be determined by running and fixing each and every scenario, sometimes in multiple places) to get things to sync up before a "Then I click on..." call. Anticipating much GRRRR.. [/rambling rant]
Sounds like you would be better off with Firefox 24.5 ESR.
Kevin