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darcilicious
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Re: [Dev Build] Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

Aaaaand... we'll just have to agree to disagree -- if only because my Honda Fit doesn't look like a Porsche 911 despite the components they have in common -- they are easily distinguishable from one another. Chrome and Australis, not so much.

howardfine
join:2002-08-09
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Nope. A car is a car if you look head on to the grill. Same with browsers. Yeah a curve here and there but they all look alike for the reason I gave.
BlitzenZeus
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Really? It's not so different. Here's my Firefox, it's not a stretch to move the couple things, and round a few corners.

I do use an extension to force the tabs into the titlebar, and that makes it even more like chrome.

therube
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> Nope. A car is a car if you look head on to the grill.

When I was young (a long time ago, in the age of "Datsun" & before), I could identify, distinctly, EVERY car on the road.

Today, yes, a car is a car. It's like who cares any more. All the personality is gone.

And yes, that is what the browser & OS too are beginning to look like. Everything homogenized, somogenized. You can't tell what "app" you're in. Internet Explorer could just as well be Windows Explorer, they look the same. And if FF looks like Chrome, looks like ... then at that point, it becomes, "who cares". And why bother.

Yesterday I downloaded & took a quick look at "Austraiis" & was like, eh, a browser. Then, uh, where did my (extension) icons go? Then, uh, where is my component bar? Then I was like, eh, a browser.

Me, I'll stick with the one that stands out, that is different, that retains its personality & works they way I want it to work.

Now where did I park my Peugeot (504D, ah, what a car )!

fx_woes
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Me, I'll stick with the one that stands out, that is different, that retains its personality & works they way I want it to work.

Which browser is that? It's sure not Firefox!

therube
join:2004-11-11
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> Which browser is that? It's sure not Firefox!

SeaMonkey.