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It's weird they took out the icons in the hamburger menu, they are useful visual cues especially for non power users who are not familiar with whith shortcuts.

Otherwise I like the look of it but it seems like totally unnecessary. I don't understand why they invest so in new ui changes.

In the meantime we still don't have WebMIDI.

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How many people are gonna use WebMIDI. In the meanwhile every user is affected by the UI.

That’s not a defense force constantly changing the UI but the UI is arguably one of the most important features for a browser to be competitive.

It has been 8 years since proposed: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=836897

MIDI is not very fringe, and far more people have MIDI controllers than VR headsets, yet Mozilla puts resources into that. My roommates aren't too technical, but all of them have MIDI controllers, and one has made an entire EP on the browser (in Edge!).

It's true if you consider UI to be more about empowering users, making easy things easy and more difficult things possible, rather than just good looks. I think a valid argument can be made that repeated firefox ui changes have had to do with good looks and not much else.

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