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Firefox Nova - our first look at the browser's big redesign - OMG! Ubuntu
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It's wild to me how UI developers just can't let things be. Certain elements are timeless and just work. Why do you feel you have to reinvent the wheel every few years?
Microsoft had an undo/redo buttom. It became the undo/dropdown, whatnisnin the dropdown? Redo.
It just added an extra click. That is all
UI redesigns are a marketing feature for paid products because you need to give people a reason to update. (See Microsoft Windows looking different with every new major version).
Mozilla sees Firefox as a paid product (even if it isn’t) and their marketing team decides for a redesign every few actual major releases (not the bogus major releases to get the release number higher fast).
Because many are ego-driven tools that aspire to be the founder of the Next Big Aesthetic™️