This seems fine to me, too. Personally I want easier to disambiguate tabs. The sexy Australis curves were peak Firefox design. I really dislike the new tab bar
Every time I see someone struggle with some UI, it really boils my blood that some asshole manager/tech bro somewhere decided to chase after fucking retention and engagement. And chose to make life more difficult and frustrating for some poor person who just wants to use the thing they paid for and own
Edit: Sorry for the rant, this doesn't really belong in the Firefox community. I feel like Mozilla has done a fairly decent job, it's just that I'm tired of all the tech BS and it pains me to see things being made so much worse
I don't mind the idea of them having a go at improving it. What I want (and I don't think it's too unusual) is for history and site settings to be remembered when I close the browser, and most cookies + data to be deleted with the exception of a few sites where they're kept. Configuring this has been strangely complicated for a long time. To get it to work, I had to figure out this procedure:
Select "delete cookies and site data when firefox is closed"
Click on "manage exceptions" to add the exceptions. You'd think we'd be done, but...
Scroll down to the "history" section
Select both "clear history when firefox closes" and "remember history"
Click history -> "settings"
Select the chekboxes for cookies + data
Unselect boxes for history and site settings
It is with some trepidation that I wait to see whether they will have broken my configuration, made things easier, or made it impossible to set things up this way when Debian stable eventually updates to the new ESR in the next few months.
Thank you for this comment; this is probably the setting that I would prefer but I don't remember seeing the option to have this when I was looking through settings. I suspect I didn't dig far enough — I agree, this is weirdly complicated
More detail is good for technical users, but extremely confusing for non-technical users. There needs to be a balance between what's good for both groups, and I think the current design is a good one.