Mozilla is working on a Firefox design refresh

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Mozilla will be lengthening the beta cycle for Firefox 89 according to the FX Trains website, it will see the release pushed back to June 1 as opposed to May 18 when it was supposed to be released. The alteration to the schedule was noticed by German Firefox blogger Sören Hentzschel who said that the delay has been put in place so Mozilla can have more time to test its new Proton user interface.

With Firefox 89 undergoing a six-week beta cycle, Firefox 90 will also see its nightly cycle length extended to six weeks over the same period before everything returns back to the usual four-week cycle. Firefox 88 will be the final version of Firefox to ship according to the old release calendar on April 20 and subsequent releases will be delayed by two weeks from their original launch dates.

Firefox 89 to receive longer beta cycle to prep for Proton

Mozilla has delayed the release of Firefox 89 by two weeks so that it can have extra time to test its new Proton UI which overhauls the tabbing experience. The new release date is June 1.

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"Mozilla postpones Firefox 89 release date by 2 weeks"

Firefox 89 will be a major new Firefox version; while all stable releases that bump the version by 1 may be considered major, there are only a few that make fundamental changes to the browser, and Firefox 89 will be such a release.

The upcoming version of Firefox is not a new ESR release version, but it will introduce the new Proton design in Firefox. We covered Photon quite a bit here already on Ghacks. Summed up, it is a visual refresh of the Firefox interface that modifies the browser's address bar, tab bar, menus, main menu, modals, and other key areas. [...]

Firefox 89's original release date was four weeks after the release of Firefox 88, the next stable version release of Firefox, which is scheduled for a release on April 20, 2021. Mozilla decided to extend the Firefox 89 beta period by two weeks, and that postpones the release of the new Firefox version.

The new release date is June 1, 2021; it is still possible that the release may be delayed further, depending on how development progresses. All future version releases of Firefox go back to the regular 4-week release cycle. We have updated our Firefox Release calendar here on this site to reflect the change.

Mozilla postpones Firefox 89 release date by 2 weeks - gHacks Tech News

Mozilla made the decision to postpone the release of Firefox 89, the one with the new visual refresh enabled, by two weeks to extend the beta period.

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"Firefox's Drag Space Customize Option will be removed for most users"

Mozilla is working on a visual refresh for the organization's Firefox web browser. Called Proton internally, it is an attempt to modernize the user interface of the web browser. Tabs, the address bar, menus, modals and other areas are changed visually. The organization plans to release the visual refresh in Firefox 89, out in June 2021, to the stable population.

Besides adding a different kind of paint to Firefox, Mozilla engineers are also removing features from Firefox, mainly the customize menu, that they believe are not popular and not used by many users of the browser.

We covered the removal of the compact mode density already. Mozilla wanted to remove the option completely from Firefox initially, but changed plans after a massive user backlash. The decision was made to keep compact density for Firefox installations that use it, but hide the option in the customize menu for others. Firefox users who want to use the mode need to flip a preference switch to do so or enable it right away, also in the preferences.

Firefox's Drag Space Customize Option will be removed for most users - gHacks Tech News

A new bug on Mozilla's bug tracking site Bugzilla@Mozilla suggests that another customize option will be hidden if it is not enabled. It is the Drag Space option.

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How to fix the Firefox 89 user interface​

Firefox 89 ships with address bar, toolbar, tab and menu changes. One common denominator is that everything will be a big larger in the new interface. Proton will remove some options from Firefox, or hide them. The Compact density option won't be displayed anymore on the "customize" page of the browser if it has not been used in the past. While it is possible to restore it, most users won't because it requires editing a configuration preference that cannot be discovered accidentally.

Firefox users who want a design that is more compact may use the linked guide above to enable the compact density option in the browser to start using it. Another option is to modify user interface elements with CSS.

Firefox UI Fix includes CSS fixes that modify the Firefox 89+ user interface to make the interface more compact. It reduces padding and other design elements to improve the usability for users who prefer light interfaces over large ones. [...]

How to fix the Firefox 89 user interface - gHacks Tech News

Firefox UI Fix adjusts the Firefox 89 user interface to make it use less space without sacrificing functionality.

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I'm using beta 89b10. There was a change in the display for checking the progress of the download. I feel it's not a bad change