Nice, I was mildly annoyed with the UI change. It takes longer for me to see which tab was active with the style and I didn't really find it any more pleasing to look at.
I was also fine with FF 156 version of Nova where compact mode was really compact with vertical tabs and rounding was restrained enough. With FF 157 they have added more padding to vertical tabs to compensate for close tab icon on rounded favicons, menu borders are so rounded they clip menu items, PIP min size lock has been removed so you can minimize it to a popsicle, and so on. It seems like they skipped a lot of QA.
None of this had to happen if Google didn't have to change design systems every year like they come up with a new messaging app every year.
Google's Fisher-Price-ificiation of software UX is bad and should have never spread. Material Design leading to Material 3 Expressive with the giant empty space and giant gaping voids that are buttons was an absolute mistake.
And then it spread to the rest of software, enshittifying along the way.
Google's Fisher-Price-ificiation of software UX is bad and should have never spread. Material Design leading to Material 3 Expressive with the giant empty space and giant gaping voids that are buttons was an absolute mistake.
And then it spread to the rest of software, enshittifying along the way.