On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 11:28:18PM -0500, Dale wrote
> What version of Firefox are you using? I've seen some changes made
> to Firefox but nothing that drastic. I'm just curious if maybe I'm
> still running a older not affected version.
>
> My reason for asking. I'm volunteer on staff at a social site.
> I have several accounts there. Firefox, especially giving the
> addons it has, is the best option for me to use to have multiple
> profiles open at one time. Plus, I don't need the email feature
> for that either. If something ugly and nasty is coming, I need to
> start figuring out what I can do to work around this or something
> else to use.
I don't know your definition of ugly; everybody has their own idea.
Australis came in approx Firefox 29. After struggling with the
lobotomized interface for a while, I executed 2 commands...
emerge --unmerge firefox
emerge seamonkey
The Australis top menu bar is thicker, so that it's easier to tap on a
tablet... so what. They've removed text from the "File Edit View etc..."
menu. Instead, they've inserted a bunch of heiroglyphics/icons. A lot
of customizability has been removed. Put it this way... if I wanted to
use Chrome(ium), I'd use Chrome(ium) in the first place.
There are now some Firefox addons which try to restore the classic
look. The fact that there's demand for them is a sad commentary on the
"new-and-improved" UI.
Seamonkey has the classic look and has an Gentoo ebuild. The Palemoon
fork is now available for linux too. I don't see an ebuild in portage.
You either have to download the generic x86_64 version, or pull down the
tarball from Sourceforge, and build locally if you want optimization
and full feature control.
<fart="old">
Going way back into the days of DOS, I remember when Wordstar 3.3 used
to be the most popular word processor. Then they brought out the
"new-and-improved" Wordstar 2000 version with drop-down menus instead of
{CTRL} key combos. It fell off the public radar soon afterwards. This
is what the Australis fiasco reminds me of.
</fart>
--
Walter Dnes <[email protected]>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
