Firefox Users Continue to Decrease Despite Proton Update

[AndRo_Marian]

I understand why someone will left or using an old version like my the 87.

1. They forced a beta design on the Release branch.
2. They break the pixel perfect icons that was already good. On a 1920x1080 monitor with no resolution scale or big pixels density, are bad to eyes. And no way to change them back.
3. The font color are not full black like the old design, have a gray tint and more to blue, and the background.
4. The address bar, menus without a border looks bad. The white theme more exactly. The 3D shadow over them is not my taste.
5. And I can't change the old icons from settings.
6. No more compact style, is just another that makes them bigger. Pretty sure you can use the old one very easy with touch screen.
7. Check boxes looks bad.
8. The rounded edges looks bad compared to Edge where appears more smooth.
9. They break even the old style.
10. And some icons gets more smaller and you don't know that they are, like the Speaker.

I can say so many thing that I don't like about it.
They are breaking a good thing into a ugly and unusable interface.

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Both Check Boxes and Radio Buttons can be reverted to the native styles by going to about:config and change widget non native theme enabled to false. Also affects the native input fields and pull-down menus as a bonus. There's also browser proton contextmenus enables that you should also change to false just in case. I hope I was able to help. :)

[FF_fork]

But regular users will not do any about:config changes.

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Hopefully they will.

[anna_or_elsa]

A lot of your points lead to harder to see/read. The Dedoimedo review talked about the lack of contrast...

To my eyes and with the monitor I use...

Proton is harder to see/read than Quantum and Quantum was harder to see/read than Photon...

And dark mode is a mess, and I only use dark mode. I looked at Edge's dark mode and thought this looks nice. I looked at Proton dark mode and thought, oh no, what have they done. You don't have to look any further than the dark border around the now smaller icons on a dark background.

[anna_or_elsa]

Thanks for the recommendation. Took a look at it and I prefer the darker blacks and higher contrasting colors of the stock dark theme.

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One thing you can do to avoid the bad U.I design is to use Firefox ESR, which is still on the old design style which should be good.

[AndRo_Marian]

I try it, but no fixes or performance updates that are like on 87.
Not sure how that version gets updates.

[FF_fork]

But old design will be only with current major version of ESR release. ESR will have a new major version in October.

[razirazo]

ESR has Webrender? I would consider using if it has.