Mildly Infuriating

No corner. Only Edge.

Wha... Why are you using Edge?
I'm so confused

Sure they can add rounded corners but can they fix this mess?

I gotta say I love that Microsoft has the self confidence to think that there are people who use edge on Linux.

Softer...like they just wanted to take the edge off.

I'll see myself out now.

As it's Microsoft, you can be pretty sure the option to turn off the new look and feel will be removed in 6 months

Smartphones: Rounded everything, nobody actually likes it. Edge:

That way you can't cut yourself on the sharp edges

I... Kind of like it?

Use Linux and Firefox

Use Firefox

If you're lucky, it'll follow along with Chrome and start sharing your browser history to advertisers, too!

I've noticed that there's a shift in UI design currently back to the 2000s style of round UI design, which eventually moved out of the way for nice straight crisp corners when we shifted from CRTs to LCDs which could render pixel perfect images at last.

We never limited the viewport on a browser of course, that's madness. But just look at XP's bubbly design and interfaces of the time vs Win8/10's very angular, clean crisp interface.

I do hope we're not descending back into an age of curves, I'm not a fan. But styles come and go every few decades, and maybe younger people today are ready to experience their "age of curves" for the first time?

I sort of understand rounding outside edges for aesthetics since there's nothing lost and it might be easier as a target for resizing, but inside corners are just stupid. You're arbitrarily cutting corners out of content for no good reason.

Guess they're going for the CRT look? Next up, all pages default to 4:3?

Probably to match windows 11 borders

They can't even make it consistent. The border radius on the tabs, the URL bar, and the main page are all different.

Settings -> Appearance -> disable 'Try new look'

Counter opinion: I think the rounded corners look nice. And do a good job matching up with the windows 11 aesthetic

I get we're all old blokes and don't like change, but these rounded corners and UI changes are arguably better. Nothing wrong with a new modern look

I actually like rounded corners but I wouldn't ever touch Edge.

Uh, I use Gnome and rounded corners are all around the gnome apps I use. I wouldn't use Edge, but I'd like to see Chrome have this.

I blame Apple for that trend.

It's like 20 years on and the rest of the world is still trying to ape it.

The real mildlyinfuriating part is that they probably got inspired by Arc, a relatively new browser. They already copied how their window splitting works.

Pretty crappy for MS not to have good designers themselves and then copy (often poorly) what one of the small players is doing.