I don't get this post. It's just shilling for Arc, no?
this post was submitted on 26 Oct 2023
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@Carighan definitely not, gosh.. since I use Firefox over years and see how the user base is moving from the Firefox to the Chrome/Brave, even the Safari (Safari was second Explorer imho) so when I see these projects such as Arc I would just like to say to the Firefox team, hey guys maybe here is the opportunity to get some users back, imho it's mostly just about the UI layout.
You seem to not know about the recent improvements to Safari. https://www.magiclasso.co/insights/triumph-of-safari/
Don't get me wrong, I do love Firefox and it's my primary browser on Windows and Linux.
@auf Yes, overall what I wanted to point out, how it's possible that Firefox loses massive user base each quarter. We know, probably it's because they don't hear their users. And this is the main reason of my topic, to say, hey, let's see again there is something new, which doesn't have to be so much hard to do and people like it, and what could help Firefox in some sense ;)
Uhm... This looks ugly and unusable. How is this seen as a good thing?
Definitely I would not use such UI for a browser. Even vertical tabs not worked for me.
Imo it's very unlikely that firefox will perform such a huge change.
BUT that doesn't mean that you may not write another UI. The Firefox team would probably welcome it.
Having the url at the side is interesting. Usually I want to see where I am but I bet the majority of users don't. Such a small bar would be sufficient.
Close, minimize buttons on the left are strange to me but that should be handled by the OS theme anyway and not by a specific app.
We don't need every app to behave different
Tabs and bookmarks on the left aren't really that new. You may have a look into sideberry or other extensions.
Especially firefox-gnome-theme and tab center reborn achieve most of what you want
Interesting how Lemmy interprets mentions. I guess it wasn't planned to have this show up in the Firefox Lemmy community, but the software decided differently.
That is indeed very strange and interesting
@kleinptr
I’m with you. I understand some people find the current Firefox UI enough for their necessities. However, that doesn’t mean everyone thinks the same. Mozilla should think about a redesign of Firefox.
I used Arc for two months, at the beginning was really annoying, but later I got the point, and it has some good features (split view, hover sidebar…)
What I couldn’t stand for, was the idea of using Chromium. I felt terrible. Now, I switched to Firefox again, but this time using a Japanese fork called Floorp. The developer behind it did I pretty good job, I figured out, and I have something very close to Arc’s UI, of course, with some limitations.