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Looks like an EDGE ripoff. Why is there space to the left of pinned tabs and to the left of URL field? Is it used for something? I have no unused space in my Firefox UI right now, so this seems wasteful.

The only thing I like is that they moved bookmarks star back into the awesome bar. The current "joint bookmarks button" is the ugliest piece of UI I've ever seen.

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It's really weird how for a long time stuff looked like Chrome with everything getting the smooth corners everywhere and then they gave the Developer Edition theme which had angles everywhere and now we get the Edge/Chrome all-in-one treatment. If I didn't know any better, I'd think Firefox is just throwing different UIs at a wall and seeing what sticks.

> to the left of pinned tabs

Presumably to allow one to click on the title bar, which the tabs otherwise occupy. The same gap exists in today's Firefox; when the window is maximized, I can slam my cursor into the upper-left corner and see that it's not hovering over a tab.

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