marty60 wrote:Ngamer01 wrote:Watabou wrote:Maybe the full Australis could arrive by the end of the year.
Would be nice, but Mozilla will probably stop developing Australis and start on it's sequel later on at some point.
Mozilla never wants to sit on the same theme for longer than a year or two at most which makes 3rd party theme development unnecessarily difficult.
That's good, I hope they dump Australis, at least with the desktop versions. According to Net Applications Firefox is once again on the rise with Chrome falling to 16%. In other words users are coming home to FF because of its increased performance and maybe some additional new features that Chrome had that people liked.
There's also a rich supply of addons and the privacy. Very few people are complaining about the UI and so the worst thing the developers could do at this point is to turn FF into a clone of a sinking browser like Chrome.
In my opinion FWIW that's why they should leave UI changes to addons and themes and continue doing exactly what they are, increasing performance.
If it was a simple theme change than Australis would have landed long ago, it's also meant to replace the nasty and slow code in the current theme that was rushed for Fx4 and make it more responsive.
Also, it's not just for the tab bar, the entire UI from options/preferences, addons and other chrome pages to text inputs and buttons will get a theme refresh.