Australis Discussion

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Appearance-wise it looks different, but the way it's coded all of the devtools stuff is loaded as part of the browser skin package, so all of the icons/breadcrumb images/etc. are loaded up when the default theme loads. Also note that coming to Australis with the new menu UI will be an extra-large set of icons (we already have a few for newtab page) which will also be loaded with the same skin package. Theme size does add to the overall memory footprint (per window) and startup times. This was part of the argument behind the removal of the large icon set in Firefox 4.0, as well as several attempts to cull unused redundant image files. It's not *major* but neither are the granular gains in performance with Snappy and Memshrink. As Firefox becomes more feature-rich I suspect this is something they will have to have a pow-wow about.
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They'll probably have it load/unload on demand before they rip any of the new stuff out.
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I just can't wait for the day that Mozilla decides what everyone else already knows... that Australis is really just Vista Aero integration that's 6 years too late, and they need to scrap the whole thing to make it look remotely decent in W8... where these curvy tabs and smooth gradients just look ridiculous. (Although personally W8 "desktop" look is about the most hideous and pointlessly ridiculous thing to come across in a graphical OS since early versions of Windows prior to W95). And I say that as a genuine fan of the Mobile Metro look which is IMO successful because it's the closest thing we've seen thus far to Star Trek's LCARS interface.
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Nah, its Windows 7 integration 3 years too late. Fx4's theme was the Vista stuff.
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Any progress on mac for Australis?
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juanj78 wrote:Any progress on mac for Australis?

dunno, hop into irc an ask the devs

seems the last Australis builds for windows have gone from the try builds area?
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juanj78 wrote:Any progress on mac for Australis?

I hope not. We do not need transparency in title bars.
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I think you meant transparency in the Tabs?
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Image a pic of what it'lllook like in all OS's
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We do not need transparency in either title bars or tabs. In fact, this obsession with making things semitransparent has gone entirely too far already. Theme authors are making things like text in the add-ons window semitransparent if the item is disabled, and that makes it harder to see. Not helpful at all.
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As I'm tired of waiting for Australis tabs, I've been using this style for few months.
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Honestly who cares? The thread is not about user styles as far as I know.
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New try build of Australis tabs for Windows: here
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Looks better than before, personally I think the panels should be thinner, it would look better.
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Looks great , though needs some polishing at top of tabs , however , i hate this on Win8 (Maybe Firefox has to draw its own caption buttons , which i think isn't good UI proposal) :

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