I don't think you achieved your stated goals.Cleaner: definitively not. More colors is more noise. The previous design was almost peak clean design. The new design increases branding, however I don't want or need my browser to be branded (or be "bold...
I don't like the Nova redesign at all from the screenshot/mockup that circulated in the media. It looks very "from an AI age for the AI age" and wastes a lot of space between components. I'd love an option to disable it.
I'm not eager for new AI features in Firefox, BUT if you're building them, your approach sounds reasonable (opt-in, full control, etc). I'd like a focus on small local models, like you're already doing for the tab grouping suggestions.
I have to say this looks really bad, Mozilla. You add ToS to your browser, which is an open source application and not a service (having ToS for your services is legit). And you also remove the promise to not sell users data. Then, when users rightfu...
