Firefox version 157 is round (and how to make it less round)

8 comments

• kbelder 30 minutes ago
  I added

    border-radius: 0px !important;
  

  to my user chrome as per the article, but it didn't seem to accomplish anything. I've restarted with no effect. I didn't have a custom userChrome.css file before, but the instructions were clear enough. Do you have to enable it or something?

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  Ok, found that you need a setting in about:config

    toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets = true

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  • samtheDamned 10 minutes ago
    You also have to toggle "toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets" to true in about:config
• highspeedbus 39 minutes ago
  I still hold a grudge over the change from Photon to Proton theme. It should be easier to customize this.
• AngryData 9 hours ago
  Nice, I was mildly annoyed with the UI change. It takes longer for me to see which tab was active with the style and I didn't really find it any more pleasing to look at.
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  • mossTechnician 44 minutes ago
    It's relatively good news that, in my opinion, the Default theme is the biggest whiff with the design overhaul. If Mozilla had just chosen a different option like a basic blue, it may have gone over a bit better.

    At least choosing a different theme is the easiest it's ever been. Unlike the rounding, no CSS hacking is necessary.
• quertyrecord74 7 hours ago
  the day firefox execs took private jets to meeting, I knew it can never be fixed. surprised still the downfall is not reached bottom
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  • ThePowerOfFuet 2 hours ago
    When was this? Where can I read more about it?
• lapcat 29 minutes ago
  Firefox 157 rounded rects clip the Mac scrollbar in add-on popups: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2077510
• panja 4 hours ago
  I guess I'm the only one that likes this update...
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  • microflash 3 hours ago
    I was also fine with FF 156 version of Nova where compact mode was really compact with vertical tabs and rounding was restrained enough. With FF 157 they have added more padding to vertical tabs to compensate for close tab icon on rounded favicons, menu borders are so rounded they clip menu items, PIP min size lock has been removed so you can minimize it to a popsicle, and so on. It seems like they skipped a lot of QA.
• justthisonceok 7 hours ago
  Firefox trying hard to get rid of good stuff, while keeping a bugzilla backlog of 15 years, what a surprise.
• kotaKat 5 hours ago
  None of this had to happen if Google didn't have to change design systems every year like they come up with a new messaging app every year.

  Google's Fisher-Price-ificiation of software UX is bad and should have never spread. Material Design leading to Material 3 Expressive with the giant empty space and giant gaping voids that are buttons was an absolute mistake.

  And then it spread to the rest of software, enshittifying along the way.