Forthcoming Changes to the UI

[JodyThornton]

Hey Moonchild. Allow me to start by quoting you on your announcement from today:

We'll be building on a new toolkit, which requires some changes to how certain common features are handled. Although as a user you may not directly notice this, there are some subtle changes in the UI, and if you are a heavy preference-tweaker, you should consider resetting all your preferences to Pale Moon defaults, as your previous tweaks may be (very) detrimental to the new code.

So what sort of UI tweaks would be be speaking of? As far as I know, I have:

• Created a UsrChrome.css file to eliminate that bold-text title from the tile bar.
  Added the FoxE9 extension to allow an IE9 appearance
  Added a "Downloads Window" add-on to recreate the classic download window.
  Altered the media.foundation prefs so that clicking an audio file links pops up a download window, instead of an HTML5 player widget
  I set my nglayout.inital.paintdelay to 750, so that more of the page has been downloaded and then rendered at once.

I think that's it. Would any of these items qualify for concern on your part?

[Moonchild]

I'd say only the IE9 appearance thing -- I'm not familiar with it though so i don't know what exactly it does.

[JodyThornton]

Thanks for the feedback on this, and on the other Tycho changes in the other two threads. Very much appreciated.

[Walter Dnes]

I go into View ==> Toolbars ==> Customize and set up for maximum usable screen space for content. Here's a snap of the top of my browser window. Would this be problematic? If so, which of the *.sqlite files (in linux) should I delete?

[Moonchild]

it shouldn't be an issue to customize it like that in v27. I did say subtle changes to the UI. Our customizability will remain extremely flexible as you're used to.