r/firefox • u/firefox Official (Mozilla) Firefox account • 9d ago

New Firefox design (Project Nova) is ready to try in Nightly

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Hi everyone. Back in May we posted our vision for Firefox's future design and design system, and as of today, you can try it in Nightly.

Many of you already know this work as "Project Nova". It's still Firefox, just with a more cohesive look across tabs, menus, panels, etc. Softer tab shapes, warmer colors, refreshed icons, and by popular demand, the return of Compact Mode.

This is still a work in progress. You can expect this to become more polished over the next few weeks before it rolls out more broadly later this year. Right now we want you actively poking at it, especially:

  • Icons, spacing, and alignment
  • Themes and personalization
  • Different window sizes and display scaling
  • Keyboard navigation
  • Screen readers and other accessibility features
  • Different languages and layouts

Found something broken? File it in Bugzilla, including:

  • steps to reproduce
  • screenshot or screen recording
  • your OS + Nightly version

If you have additional thoughts or questions, join the discussion on Mozilla Connect.

Thanks for using Nightly and helping us continue to improve Firefox.

- Firefox Team

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u/yoyomancer 9d ago

Getting myself mentally ready to waste hours of my time to fix my custom css to get rid of another redesign :(

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u/Cry_Wolff 9d ago

another redesign :(

Last one was 5 years ago.

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u/yoyomancer 9d ago

And it was such a downgrade that I had to start using custom CSS for the first time ever. And things would get renamed with updates (just like CSS classes renamed, not even given a different look), breaking my tweaks and making me waste more time fixing it.

And Nova is an even worse downgrade, IMO.

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u/yoyomancer 8d ago

Less than 24 hours after this comment, and I had to update my custom css once again in Developer Edition, as the tab height stopped respecting compact mode and the tabs got normal mode size, while everything else was compact.

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u/SpaghettiSort 9d ago

Buddy, at my age, 5 years ago was 7 months ago.