Hi Firefox Team, what you would say to make an UI adjustments regarding the https://arc.net/ which becomes very popular :) it could be a great opportunity to get some Windows and Linux users back, since they released Mac only so far. Also it’s based on Chromium and it seems it is not an open-source yet. cc @mozilla @firefox @FirefoxNightly

  • Carighan Maconar
    10•1 year ago

    I don’t get this post. It’s just shilling for Arc, no?

    • Klein PetrOP
      2•1 year ago

      @Carighan definitely not, gosh… since I use Firefox over years and see how the user base is moving from the Firefox to the Chrome/Brave, even the Safari (Safari was second Explorer imho) so when I see these projects such as Arc I would just like to say to the Firefox team, hey guys maybe here is the opportunity to get some users back, imho it’s mostly just about the UI layout.

      • Carighan Maconar
        3•1 year ago

        I am unaware of any differences in iOS layout, isn’t Firefox just a skin over Safari there? But doesn’t it have its own UI? It’s be weird if it were to not be reminiscent of other Firefox instances, no?

        • Klein PetrOP
          0•1 year ago

          @auf Yes, overall what I wanted to point out, how it’s possible that Firefox loses massive user base each quarter. We know, probably it’s because they don’t hear their users. And this is the main reason of my topic, to say, hey, let’s see again there is something new, which doesn’t have to be so much hard to do and people like it, and what could help Firefox in some sense ;)

  • IllecorsEnglish
    5•1 year ago

    Uhm… This looks ugly and unusable. How is this seen as a good thing?

  • @[email protected]
    3•1 year ago

    Interesting how Lemmy interprets mentions. I guess it wasn’t planned to have this show up in the Firefox Lemmy community, but the software decided differently.

  • camilobotero
    0•1 year ago

    @kleinptr
    I’m with you. I understand some people find the current Firefox UI enough for their necessities. However, that doesn’t mean everyone thinks the same. Mozilla should think about a redesign of Firefox.

    I used Arc for two months, at the beginning was really annoying, but later I got the point, and it has some good features (split view, hover sidebar…)

    What I couldn’t stand for, was the idea of using Chromium. I felt terrible. Now, I switched to Firefox again, but this time using a Japanese fork called Floorp. The developer behind it did I pretty good job, I figured out, and I have something very close to Arc’s UI, of course, with some limitations.