Australis theme removal of customizations...

[Drew Tardif]

Hello. I have a question about the upcoming australis theme.

According to this:
http://www.ghacks.net/2013/04/18/firefoxs-australis-theme-may-have-disastrous-consquences-for-users-who-customize-the-browser/

We will so have a lot of things removed that we were previously able to
customize. The reason a lot of people use Firefox, and not other
browsers, is because we can customize it however we so choose. Will
these changes be one hundred percent un-modify-able by users? Or will it
just be a "feature turned off by default" type of thing where we have to
check a box in the preferences in order to enable all of the
customization options we had by default in past builds?

In my personal case, I find the addon bar to helpful in organization. I
have to use a lot of addons for both school and work, and keeping all
the browser controls in one place -at the top- and all the addons I use
on a daily basis in another place -at the bottom- is just a great way
for me to keep organized. Both visually and work-flow wise.

I look forward to your reply. Thank you for reading.

-Drew

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[Matt Brubeck]

On 4/18/2013 7:34 PM, Drew Tardif wrote:
> We will so have a lot of things removed that we were previously able
> to customize. The reason a lot of people use Firefox, and not other
> browsers, is because we can customize it however we so choose. Will
> these changes be one hundred percent un-modify-able by users? Or will
> it just be a "feature turned off by default" type of thing where we
> have to check a box in the preferences in order to enable all of the
> customization options we had by default in past builds?

The proposal for the new Australis customization tool will replace the
current *built-in* drag-and-drop customization tool. The old "customize
toolbars" dialog will be gone, replaced by a new one that we hope will
be more useful and less confusing. There's no plan to provide a
built-in preference to bring back the old dialog.

However, this is just a change to Firefox's built-in toolbar
customization dialog. Firefox extensions will still be able to do
things like add toolbars, remove toolbars, hide the back button, etc. --
basically any other possible change to the UI. So any sort of UI tweak
that is no longer part of Firefox's own drag-and-drop tool can still be
added by an extension.