Firefox is starting to look like Chrome

[GreyGeek]

I think it's because we're all such fans of KDE here (why else would we be using Kubuntu?). ....

Distils Kubuntu to its essential oils!

I moved to Kubuntu from Mandriva because the 9.04 beta release's i915 driver gave me good 3D graphics. I've stayed with it because Kubuntu gives me the best, most feature rich KDE desktop ..... AND ... this forum!

[SteveRiley]

I'm always 'amused' that so much is made of what an application looks like, as if that was the end-all to be-all of importance.

I think it's because we're all such fans of KDE here (why else would we be using Kubuntu?). Yet the most important application -- the browser -- looks nothing at all like anything else on the desktop, if you're using a popular one like Chrom(e)ium or Firefox. Actual KDE browsers just don't work well right now, and won't until we have a modern QtWebKit library.

[Snowhog]

I'm always 'amused' that so much is made of what an application looks like, as if that was the end-all to be-all of importance. I don't write the programs; don't know how, nor do I want to learn. I'm a user of others work and I'm grateful such foks exist who are willing and capable of doing the work -- for my benefit -- and do it for free no less!

I'm not finding fault with the comments made here; one's opinion is as valid as an others.

[life0riley]

I haven't changed the theme or added any add-ons. I'm getting used to it. I just played a YouTube video and didn't have any issues with Veromix. It seems to be more responsive.

[dtr]

With Classic Theme Restorer https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...storer/?src=ss you can manage to make this new version of Firefox function they way you prefer. With my laptop and desktop, I'm not interested in hiding all the menu options and other functions in a "Hamburger Menu" button. I have plenty of screen space and saving a few pixels or screen real estate isn't a major concern. Also I preferred the pre-firefox 29 setup over Google Chrome/Chromium. This trend of over-simplification has been done to death. Enough with hiding everything, enough of the bland monochrome flatness.

[ronw]

I had the same youtube and audio issues last night. Veromix showed 8 audio streams from Firefox even after closing all instances. Also took a reboot here. Let's hope that is a one-time occurrence.

[GreyGeek]

Not liking the new FireFox I installed Iceweasel from the repository. I used it all day yesterday without problems. After Snowhog's remarks about the new FF I decided to allow the update to install it. I managed to customize it to my liking, and made sure all my add-ons and extensions were working. In fact, I liked it so well I purged Iceweasel.

Last night I closed FireFox but left my laptop on, as I usually do. This morning I opened FireFox to play a Numberphile YouTube video. A message box said that FireFox was already playing and I should close it before I open another instance. Using "ps aux | grep firefox" in a console I noticed the PID and used "kill -9 31220" to kill it. I started FireFox and tried to play the video. The progress bar went through the entire length, indicating the the entire video had been buffered, but it refused to play. I logged out to the login screen and logged back in. Now the video played, but there was no sound! PulseAudio was sending the output to the "Dummy output". I rebooted. Sound is back and YouTube videos play nicely.

The new FireFox, after my customizations isn't as bad as I thought it would be. I tried Chromium and didn't like it. There are a couple things I can do with FireFox that Chromium won't allow me to do. The new FireFox isn't as particular. I retract my bad words about it.

[snerk]

for the record the oxygen kde addon works just fine with this release, u just gotta increase the max version or disable compatibility checking in firefox. couple of minor things that dont work too well with oxygen kde addon though, the new firefox menu button and bookmarks button look odd, but they can be replaced with buttons from other addons, also the 'customize' page looks odd and when you close it it hangs for a few seconds before going away but it works too. its nice to have native oxygen tabs and rounded menus

[Qqmike]

Re Post #23

Fixed it. Bottom line: After showing the Menu Bar (by one of at least two methods), I think you have to close and re-open Firefox to get it to take effect. Or so it seems here.

All is well with the Bookmark menu now.

Except ... personal s*:

I would like a more prominent-appearing Refresh icon (at the right of the location window).

[Qqmike]

Issue, already.

There's a bookmark icon at the top, far right, put there, I guess, by Mozilla. It works.

But ...

When I enabled Menu Bar, at the top left, I got
File, Edit, View, History, Bookmarks, Tools, Help.

The Bookmark menu item (in this list) shows me my bookmarks, but it fails to work in this sense:
Right-click on a bookmark to get the context menu (Open, Open in a new tab, etc.). The context menu is blanked out!

[jlittle]

... it saves precious vertical space...

I use kwin to suppress window decorations completely for browser windows... saves ~20 pixels vertically. Confusing sometimes but space saving all the time.

Regards, John Little

[Qqmike]

Me, too, kind of tricky-quirky :-)

I just now noticed this:

Click on the Open Menu icon (far right, a set of 3 parallel lines).
At the bottom of that screen, click Customize.
At the bottom left of the resulting screen, there is Show/Hide Toolbars.

That's something I failed to notice the first 14 times.

[lcorken]

... Rt-click at the top to enable the Menu Bar, and it's fine.

Thanks, I screwed with it for half hour trying to figure that out.

Ken.

[Qqmike]

Seems OK here. Prefer the Classic looks, but what the heck. Change is change. Rt-click at the top to enable the Menu Bar, and it's fine.

[Feathers McGraw]

I quite like that about Chrome actually, it saves precious vertical space and puts content first.

I used to use Chromium myself, but I switched to Firefox recently for some of the add-ons... so the look isn't the only factor in the choice of browser. Wouldn't harm to have a "classic mode" though.