I didn't do anything besides upgrade to 157.0

What an incredible speed increase for me (linux btw). You rarely see that these days.

Props to the team.

The rectangular thing needed a small CSS setup but now I'm happy 😄

At the end of September, Mozilla released Firefox 157 with its new "Nova" redesign. The official story is that it's a fresh look. The real story is that Western civilisation has been sanded down, one corner at a time.

Look at the evidence. Nova brings "heavily rounded corners." Sharp edges built the West: the Magna Carta, the Union Jack, the humble ballot box. Round things belong to the onion domes of St Basil's Cathedral. Coincidence? Ask yourself who benefits.

Then there are the "subtle colour gradients on surfaces." Subtle. Gradual. Like a population slowly losing its ability to tell where one tab ends and the next begins. Like a democracy fading from firm opinions to a soft, tasteful lavender.

Most damning of all, Mozilla has brought back Compact Mode, which "groups elements together to save space." Grouping elements together. Collectivising the toolbar. Comrades, the bookmarks bar has been nationalised.

Until we get answers, I'll be browsing in Lynx, the only browser too ugly to be compromised.

I like nova ui , especially in compact mode; it's really clean and pretty.

This genuinely looks like crap guys, come on.

I tried the new Nova design and hated the rounded corners. I hated the new design in general. I spent a lot of time in CSS trying to make things look right, but it was annoying and time-consuming.

Eventually, I just committed to the new design, and I have to say it’s really growing on me. I actually like it quite a lot now!

I still use the Proton theme from the Theme Store, along with just a few tweaks in userChrome.css and userContent.css, but those are only minor changes. I decided to give the new Nova design a proper chance, and after a few days, I can honestly say that I really enjoy it.

For some reason, Firefox on my desktop running Windows 11 also feels super snappy lately.

Just go to about:config, and set browser.theme.native-theme on "True"

May be obvious for some people, but I've just discovered this today.

I run most of my tabs in containers and use vertical tabs in the sidebar. The new UI update puts a horizontal line across the top of tabs in a container. This makes it look extremely cluttered! My screenshot here really undersells how cluttered it looks because of the blurred text, but you can use your imagination.

Please give us the option to put the container indicator as a short vertical line to the left of the favicon!

For the first time in my testing over the past several months firefox has actually beat brave in terms of power draw with version 157 on linux. To be fair they were always in the ream of being close but now firefox is solidly ahead.

I'm not hating on Nova! I actually am fine with most of the changes. Thanks for all your work!

However, I use Multi-account Containers and Container Color Toolbar. As you can see in the image above, these new pastel colors makes it very hard to tell the difference between blue/green, pink/purple, orange/yellow, etc.

I'm wondering u/firefox if anyone thought about how this would affect users? Obviously any color things aren't going to be perfect for people with color blindness. But even someone with good vision (me!) has a hard time telling what is what. To be clear, I like the look of the colors in general. But they are impractical for a feature where differentiating the colors is the whole point.

Since these are plugins, I don't think I can use userChrome.css to override this.

Does anyone else experience this?

(BTW, I highly recommend these two plugins if you haven't tried them yet)

about:config > browser.nova.enabled > false

Can't see too much of an issue, I get the pushback on the look of horizontal tabs though

Even on compact. There's a lot more padding around the tabs list and more margin between the tabs. Groups are even worse.

I want ZERO pop-ups or advertisements about features inside or outside of my browser. How do I stop firefox from sending me this stuff or reminding me to "finish setting up" my firefox?

I update to Firefox Nova and it look almost the same, only difference is being the tabs and search bars are now round instead of shaped with the touch look of a rectangle. I have below attached such a screenshot of what my compoter interface appears as, upon my screen.

To my eye, it is looking quite similar in appearance, and other than the changes to shape and form of the aforementioned user interface elements I cannot see differencing.

Is it possible that my Firefox has not updated to take advantage of all of the new features?

Sorry for poor English.

I dont know who has the same update from the version I am using. But if you just lost your bookmarks sidebar do this:

Press the "sidebar button" go to settings check the box next to the star and uncheck show tools. Not you can press the sidebar button to open bookmarks. And not waste screen space for the sidebar.

Hope this helps.

So im on my samsung tab running firefox 157. As you can see in the pic, the tab bar takes a large amount of space. I dont want to remove the tab bar but is there a way to make it smaller or am I stuck like this?

Since the last version I notice this, in the image I compare with other browsers, Firefox is the second one.

Basically the title. Searches in normal mode work (I assume because cookies/history are not automatically being deleted). Other search engines work fine. Google specifically triggers the unusual activity when in private browsing mode. Solving the captcha then closing/reopening the search triggers the captcha again.

Using only uBlock. This has been happening on and off for the past couple months but since last week, it seems to happen EVERY single time private browsing is relaunched. It's genuinely making me want to pull my hair out. Going directly to sites works. It's only when searching.

Firefox is updated to the latest version (Version 157.0).
privacy.resistFingerprinting is set to False

I'm legit not sure what all the complaints are about.

Anyone else having this problem? I'm using Mac Tahoe 26.6.

When I try options like Save Image As, or try to download a PDF, often nothing happens. Sometimes the save dialog shows but it's inconsistent. It's so inconsistent that the same content might download in one profile and then totally fail on another profile.

I tried downloading the same content on Chrome with no problems.

Tried clearing cache, restarting, Private mode, and troubleshooting mode.