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I like it, but I'm seeing some serious similarities to chrome. If I had not seen this announcement and I quickly glanced at those screenshots, I would not think it was Firefox.

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yes but believe it or not, the new firefox UI/UX has been in the works for so long and chrome's development so quick that it seems like firefox was inspired by chrome when in fact that didn't happen

I'm a Firefox developer and I don't think this is true. As far as I know, most of the key elements of the Firefox 29 theme redesign emerged after the last major UI redesign (Firefox 4) was released in 2011.

Can I ask you why Mozilla removed so many useful customisation options for australis?

has this new firefox UI been "in the works" since 2008?

because several features of those images are even similar to the first version of chrome

Does it matter?

Not really. I do think it makes sense as a design. I'm just saying it looks like chrome to me and I think a lot of other users will think similarly.

i like the big menu better than the chrome menu. less confusing. and tech users dont care about it since they use regular menus ;)

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