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Firefox esr 31.0 code#
In 2017, Firefox began incorporating new technology under the code name Quantum to promote parallelism and a more intuitive user interface.
It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements current and anticipated web standards.
Firefox esr 31.0 software#
It's all about CHOICE, that and FLEXIBILITY, with regard to our UI's.Īustralis is just a symptom of a larger general dysfunction of late, between the software execs/devs, and their loyal and sometimes even PAYING (as in the case of Microsoft) users. THAT was the deal-breaker for ME, along with the forced Tabs on Top.įortunately, CTR can put back the flexibility, and then, if I don't choose another non-Australis browser anyway, I could still try out the Australis elements at my OWN pace, or not, as part of CTR's choices seem to include choosing to let things look like Australis too, one piece at a time. That brings me to my biggest beef with Australis :įF devs took away some of the long-standing legacy toolbar icons (not just hiding them in the Customize screen) and made others impossible to move, by tying them to the URL/address box. The Add-on bar I too never used, as it takes away from web page vertical space, and anything which might go there has in the past always been able to be moved to another of the bars. It's programmers' whims and arrogant "we know best" attitude, nothing more nor less, and those are extremely flimsy reasons, in MY book.Īs for the rounded tabs, that's not a biggie for me, though square ones DO let more characters of text be displayed on them. There is no productivity-driven reason, else I would give the tabs move a fair chance. There are many more differences in going to Australis from pre than you mentioned, for anyone who, like I have, kept holding onto earlier UI layouts as long as we could.Īnd after more than a decade of my tabs not being on top, why the blazes should I be forced to change NOW ?! THAT is what is driving folks away from FireFox, instead of flexibility, the reason that we embraced FF in its early days. But that's just me.Īs I and selected others here continually preach, forced changes (in general) with no internal menu-driven way to choose to revert to the earlier way - THAT is the problem - and it's the same with Windows 8's UI. Rounded Tabs & having them on top doesn't seem like much to fuss over. Frankly I still don't see what the fuss over Australis is about.