My computer crashed today, and after reboot, Firefox and TB had completely changed. From memory, I had rebooted 3 days ago, so the change is recent. I did not update anything, but some updates may have been forced by some daily or weekly system auto updates. Issues are:
- firefox changed the visual of tabs, making individual tabs much harder to distinguish; the box decoration around each tab have gone away, so they are visually merged with the upper menu bar, and, all merged together horizontally. (only current tab is properly boxed).
- Thunderbird moved the top menu bar to the left, now has unreachable buttons at the bottom due to negative interactions with other menus and window manager => tried many forums, but all changes to ./chrome/userChrome.css are ignored.
- the quick filter button was moved from the toolbar to an individual bar, adding one new line above message list, reducing the vertical space for content
- new management of borders have negative interactions with window manager (tried both options, with and without decoration, both are ... BAD). making it impossible for window manager to properly resize window magnet to other windows
- there are large sensibility zones for decoration management catched by TB that make some buttons unreachable in the left bar, and the window manager gadgets i have below (quick launch and desktop management)
- there is a new sensibility zone between the top menu bar and the top decoration of windows that give access to some window manager menu, useless at this place, and it reduced the vertical sensibility zone of the buttons, making the click box smaller, and reducing the effective size of buttons, making them harder to click
- the unread message count which used to be a nice light blue is now white in a dark grey box, catching the eye more than necessary, slowing me down, and increasing my brain work to focus on what i need to do. also this value is unconsistent; my inbox is curretly shown with 411 total messages, and 630 unread. If i unfold the folder in left column, it seems i have only 89 unread in inbox, and 2 in one subflder, but, to me, 89+2 is not equal to 630.
- the file/edit/view menu bar is now BELOW the actions buttons Get/Write/Reply ...
All these changes have an intense negative impact on my work speed. They slow me down.
FF and TB had almost not changed in 20y of use, but these changes, at the same time, with so many consequences on window manager ... I can't stand it.
I have seen only one improvement (bug fix) in TV 113 vs 54: "save all" attachements works now fine from the menu under the message, and we no longer need to use Save All from top menus.
I had fixed that FF tabs issue once 10y ago, by editing some CSS file in my profile, but it was on a different system, with a different user profile.
bullseye
E17
FF 115.7.0esr
TB 115.7.0
- firefox changed the visual of tabs, making individual tabs much harder to distinguish; the box decoration around each tab have gone away, so they are visually merged with the upper menu bar, and, all merged together horizontally. (only current tab is properly boxed).
- Thunderbird moved the top menu bar to the left, now has unreachable buttons at the bottom due to negative interactions with other menus and window manager => tried many forums, but all changes to ./chrome/userChrome.css are ignored.
- the quick filter button was moved from the toolbar to an individual bar, adding one new line above message list, reducing the vertical space for content
- new management of borders have negative interactions with window manager (tried both options, with and without decoration, both are ... BAD). making it impossible for window manager to properly resize window magnet to other windows
- there are large sensibility zones for decoration management catched by TB that make some buttons unreachable in the left bar, and the window manager gadgets i have below (quick launch and desktop management)
- there is a new sensibility zone between the top menu bar and the top decoration of windows that give access to some window manager menu, useless at this place, and it reduced the vertical sensibility zone of the buttons, making the click box smaller, and reducing the effective size of buttons, making them harder to click
- the unread message count which used to be a nice light blue is now white in a dark grey box, catching the eye more than necessary, slowing me down, and increasing my brain work to focus on what i need to do. also this value is unconsistent; my inbox is curretly shown with 411 total messages, and 630 unread. If i unfold the folder in left column, it seems i have only 89 unread in inbox, and 2 in one subflder, but, to me, 89+2 is not equal to 630.
- the file/edit/view menu bar is now BELOW the actions buttons Get/Write/Reply ...
All these changes have an intense negative impact on my work speed. They slow me down.
FF and TB had almost not changed in 20y of use, but these changes, at the same time, with so many consequences on window manager ... I can't stand it.
I have seen only one improvement (bug fix) in TV 113 vs 54: "save all" attachements works now fine from the menu under the message, and we no longer need to use Save All from top menus.
I had fixed that FF tabs issue once 10y ago, by editing some CSS file in my profile, but it was on a different system, with a different user profile.
bullseye
E17
FF 115.7.0esr
TB 115.7.0
Statistics: Posted by DoubleHP — 2024-02-11 21:31 — Replies 6 — Views 123