Please stop "updating" you ui

[Firefux]

Everything is currently fine. You are welcome to add optional changes, but you will only alienate current users if you ruin everything we currently like. I should never have to change flags to revert my browser to it's previous state. 

[kelimuttu]

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[SHARKstudio]

100% Agree, more than real ! NOBODY asked for that crappy AI sloppy, googlesque UI update !
The old UI was more than fine, but as usual why bother making a software for the people that uses it ?
Let's remove stuff that they like, and add stuff that they don't like ! Perfect no ? *Sarcasm*

[dmitryfr]

I don’t have a problem with Nova as a whole. The new icons are fine, the Settings reorganization doesn’t bother me, and changes in areas I visit occasionally are easy to adapt to.

What did bother me was the combination of heavily rounded controls and the strong purple accent in the browser chrome — especially the tab bar, toolbar, and address bar.

Those areas are different from Settings or secondary menus: they are permanently in the user’s field of view. Even when I’m not interacting with them, I’m looking at them all day. A radical change there has a much bigger impact than a larger functional change in a part of the UI I only open occasionally.

For me, the new combination of rounded “pill” shapes and purple accents made the browser itself visually intrusive. I want the browser chrome to recede into the background and let the content be the focus.

I eventually restored a neutral look using Firefox Color plus userChrome.css and userContent.css: square corners, subdued colors, no strong purple accent. I’m perfectly happy to keep the rest of Nova.

That’s why I think the right solution is not to roll Nova back, but to make the most visually dominant parts of it configurable. A simple choice of interface shape and accent style would let users keep the new architecture and functionality without forcing a radically different visual environment on everyone.

Please consider making interface shape and accent intensity/color first-class appearance settings, especially for the browser chrome.