Are there any plans to fix the excessive padding on window borders which causes unclickable elements?
Currently with the redesign, both on the normal and compact mode, because of these "floating" UI elements, things like window controls, tabs and scrollbars are not completely at the edge of the window. Because of this, when the window is maximized, you can't anymore just drag the mouse to the top right corner and click on window controls, to the right and drag the scrollbar, to the top and click on the tabs, to the top left and click on the pinned tabs or sidebar, etc. This is something that I think many users expect to work and also works fine on basically every other app, so I think it should be fixed, both on the compact and also on the normal mode (and the touch mode I guess).
This is also a problem when the window is not necessarily maximized but just tiled to the edge of the screen. For example, on Windows, if I drag the window for example to the right, it automatically tiles/snaps to the screen borders (and another window on the left if it exists). In this case, the borders should also be removed to make clicking on elements near edge possible.
Also, could the floating elements mode be decoupled from the density setting? For example, I would prefer the normal UI density, but without the floating elements. However, regardless of how it looks visually, I think the above problem should be fixed.
Other than that, I think it looks fine. One visual suggestion/complaint that I have is that the bar with the address bar and extension widgets always has a darker fixed-color, while the tabs bar has almost complete transparency. The cut between them looks too harsh, especially on more colorful themes with background images, like Alpenglow (and probably other themes with vivid background images). I'm not sure what the solution would be, but it would probably look better if both the tabs and the address bar had around the same transparency level and color.
For example, here, the cut from the Alpenglow background of the tabs bar to the solid background of the address bar is quite harsh, and the background again leaks below the bar through the gaps between elements. Similarly, even on the Default/Dark theme, there is quite abrupt transition to the address bar.
Although it looks previously looked similarily, I think it's now more noticable because of the gaps between elements. Also, in the old design, the background of the tabs bar was more visible and more saturated, so it matched the address bar color more nicely.
我是中国人,我前天下载了chrome因为它可以和codex联动,对比了下你的UI设计比Chrome好看,没有chrome臃肿,还是用了firefox,可是今天更新了UI设计,我觉得非常难用 而且很丑,不要为了设计而设计,以前我的鼠标指针移到右上角可以直接退出,现在不行了 为什么要设计成这样,为了不让人们退出浏览器吗,还是说你们内置了AI需要人们来训练? 而且为什么不能给我们一个选项自行选择旧版设计还是新版? ,不要为了设计而设计! 不要为了设计而设计! 不要为了设计而设计! I'm Chinese. Downloaded Chrome the other day purely for its Codex integration—but honestly? Firefox used to feel like a breath of fresh air. Sleek, lightweight, no Chrome bloat. So I stuck with it. Then today’s UI update hit… and wow, what a mess. It’s clunky, it’s an eyesore, and it screams “design for design’s sake!” Remember when hovering the mouse to the top-right corner meant instant exit? Gone. Poof. What’s the logic here—force us to stay trapped in the browser? Or is there some sneaky AI in there that needs our eyeball time to train itself? And why—WHY—can’t we have a toggle between the old and new UI? Stop designing just to redesign! Stop designing just to redesign! STOP DESIGNING JUST TO REDESIGN!
that will be helpful.
I was hoping the theming updates would be an improvement but looks like a long way to go. Rant warning!
The devtool accents should match the theme too!
Edge vs Firefox theme comparison. Sorry, but firefox has a long way to go 🙏
Using vertical tabs makes videos in fullscreen cropped with blank space from side- tabbar
