I just updated my software on my desktop and have to say that I don’t like the new extra rounded look for the tabs and menus. Searching for ways to disable the new FF UI came up with hits for Final Fantasy as well as previous UI choices that weren’t very popular for Firefox. Even reducing it to just things posted in the last week didn’t give the answer.

But searching for “disable nove UI firefox” made the solution pop up in the AI summary. I was skeptical whether it even existed, but it worked: open about:config (literally just type that in the address bar if you never have done this before), click past the warning (be aware that just messing with settings in here can break your FF install), then search for “browser.nova.enabled” and click the button on the right side to toggle it off. Then close any FF windows you have open and relaunch it and you should see the more rectangular UI again.

Hopefully this nova disabled mode continues to work going forward. If not I might finally move to one of the forks.

Anyways, enjoy.

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldOP
      4·
      20 days ago

      Installing a theme was the first instinct I had but the new theme just had the same rounded buttons for the tabs. In the settings, it mentions “theme colors” so they might not control shape. Would be nice if they could.

      Though if there’s a setting option, I’d use that instead. But there doesn’t seem to be such a setting.

      Though I did find that you can disable extension and feature recommendations in the Tabs and Browsing section and there’s some data collection settings in Permissions and Data that defaulted to opt in.

    • palordrolap@fedia.io
      2·
      19 days ago

      “You will use the changes we provided because Firefox is our browser, not yours, and we know better than you.”

      This is how you sound.