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Hi,

I just received an update on firefox and it seems i now have a new firefox look.

I don't like it at all and firefox seems to be much slower now on my older device (thinkpad T520 win7)

Is there any way i can revert it to the look/style it had yesterday?

I have selected DuckDuckGo as my search engine. However this is not shown correctly when I open a new window. What I see is the DDG logo followed by the text:

Search with google or enter address

I don't want to search with google! FIrefox does correctly use DDG, but it's not correct behaviour for it to show google at all. It should say: Search with DuckDuckGo or enter address in my case, or replace the string with whatever the user has selected.

Yes, it's only cosmetic, but I want to get away from google. I don't want to even SEE it!

Thanks.

Firefox just updated to version 89.0. I find the enlarged bookmarks names in the bookmarks tab, the new coloration, and the new floating tabs to be a hindrance. To elaborate, I have a form of red-green colorblindness and find the floating tabs and lighter coloration make it harder for me to use the interface, enough so that I am considering switching browsers. Is there a way to revert these visual elements to the older version?

Thank you.

Nowadays I have to use Google products like Gmail and ClassRoom every day, but with Firefox I have to log in every time I reopen the browser, while other browsers like Crhome, Edge and even Brave don't!

In Yahoo email, the bottom third of the page is "whited out". See attached image. When using the Edge browser, this does not seem to happen. Also, when in the PCMatic web site, the bottom of the web page is just lost and i cannot scroll down to it. I get the same result using Edge

Hi, I visited some website that crashed Firefox and it keeps crashing since then. I tried to force close, empty cache, restart the phone without luck. How can I extract my data from my phone or import into Firefox beta before reinstalling Firefox? (I can use adb if needed) Thanks.

Xiaomi Poco F2 Pro, Android 11, MUI 12.2.6

I've just upgraded to Firefox 89 on Linux. Tabs now appear with an icon and some text, a top and bottom border, but no side border, except for the active tab which has a box around it.

I don't like this. I want a tab to look like a tab in a card index - A border at the left and right and top, and preferably rounded top corners. I get that this is one of the new features of this version....

but I hate it already.

In the attached screenshot, you can see how Palemoon does it (how Firefox used to do it). Without borders, there is no distinction between my bookmarks bar and my tabs bar.

How do I get it back to the old way. If there is no way of doing this, please fix it so that there is.

Rationale: I hate "flat" UIs. I want Radio buttons to look like buttons on a radio. I want buttons to look like buttons that you press; tabs to look like tabs. Scroll bars to be there all the time and big enough to grab and scroll etc.

Subject line says it all. I can no longer highlight something, say, in Facebook or from a website, "copy" it and "paste" it into a message. Is it better to try restoring Firefox to an earlier version, or to abandon Firefox and use a totally different browser ? It all worked fine prior to the update today.

Thanks for the help !

Why can I no longer use the Firefox default theme? I can select it, and it is listed as "Enabled" but the plain grey screen keeps showing not the default. Also, is there away to go back to Firefox 88.0.1 and not have it update again? I went to Add-ons & Themes and disable automatic updates but I still got the prompt informing me to restart Firefox to update. Is it just me or is Firefox really getting worse with each update?

I received the v89.0 Firefox update today 06/02/21. The search box I normally use in the center of the screen under the Firefox logo does not respond to anything I type. Instead the characters I type appear at the top of the screen where the url generally appears. I also have a Windows 7 PC with Firefox v88.0.1 running on it and it works as usual. I'm almost 75 years old, at this point in my life I don't handle changes of this nature very well. Firefox didn't appear to be broken to me, why did they mess with it?

The new version of Firefox just loaded. The theme of the browser changed. I went to the section which controls themes and found the system theme does not work... There is no difference between when the light theme or the system is selected. I went to the download to see if I could re-install the system theme and did not find it.

Light theme is too light and dark theme is too dark. The system theme is a good compromise but not like the one in the previous version which I liked. Is there a way to fix this Firefox issue?

How do I reduce the height of menu items, the toolbar, and the tab bar to something closer to the height of the text and icons, instead of nearly twice the needed height?

The title bar and menu bar are correct, as shown in the screenshots (this is the account with the most bookmarks). Both the bookmarks and history menus run into the bottom of the screen before showing a reasonable number of items, which is where the problem starts impacting productivity.

I found a discussion of a previous problem, dated 5/29/2021, but it ended with handwaving about "editing css" and "keep me posted", i.e. the problem wasn't solved. If I need to edit userchrome.css or some other related file, I'd like to know what file to edit, what lines to look for, and what to change them to.

You interrupted what I was doing for an update. (Why can't it wait until I have the time?)

And now: No more outlined tabs, just one long bar with titles hanging on it. Who could possible have thought this was an improvement?

I want real tabs that look like tabs. And an obvious address window. All the color, all the definition has disappeared. It looks like a ghost of the browser I had a few minutes ago.

Stop changing my browser set-up and appearance!

I still haven't gotten the Other Bookmarks folder off my Bookmarks Toolbar.

I don't want to have to undo the changes that should never have been made.

I'm not technical - and this is a nightmare.

Ver: 89.0 (64-bit)

Why do UX people constantly change things for no reason other than to make them different.

How do you turn off the horrible "floating" tabs