{"id":42599,"date":"2013-06-05T11:03:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T09:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=42599"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:24:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:24:01","slug":"firefox-25-getting-new-design-and-updated-interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/firefox-25-getting-new-design-and-updated-interface\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 25 getting new design and updated interface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New look curved tabs, a big new back button and other changes are coming with <strong>Firefox 25<\/strong> which looks like being the biggest refresh of Mozilla&#8217;s browser since version 4.<\/p>\n<p>The current stable release is <a href=\"http:\/\/firefox.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Firefox 21<\/a>, but 25 should be released by October. The latest &#8216;nightly builds&#8217; &#8211; the freshest downloadable test versions &#8211;\u00a0 are currently at version 24. You can see below that the difference between 24 and the proposed 25 is pretty big.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42600\" title=\"Firefox 24 vs. 25\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/06\/FIREFOXCOMPARATIVE.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/06\/FIREFOXCOMPARATIVE.png 802w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/06\/FIREFOXCOMPARATIVE-300x65.png 300w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/06\/FIREFOXCOMPARATIVE-800x174.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mozilla lists <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Firefox\/Features\/Theme_Refinement_and_Evolution_%28Australis%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">these changes<\/a> coming to to Firefox 25:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Curved tabs<\/li>\n<li>Remove tab affordance from background tabs (you will only see the text, not the border)<\/li>\n<li>Separate Bookmark Star from LocationBar and merge with Bookmarks Menu item<\/li>\n<li>Updated Panel Based Application Menu and Customization Mode<\/li>\n<li>Unify the interface to include consistent border-radii, dimensions, spacing, margins, icons and color palette<\/li>\n<li>Refine all aspects of the existing UI<\/li>\n<li>Update In-Content UI Styles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The design proposals also show a <strong>unified search and address bar<\/strong>, which would bring Firefox a step closer to <a href=\"http:\/\/chrome.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Chrome<\/strong><\/a> visually.<\/p>\n<p>Another new development is a new &#8216;<strong>Panel Menu<\/strong>&#8216;, which evolves Firefox 4&#8217;s unified menu into a customizable and more attractive set of buttons. It&#8217;s a radical departure from the current menu, as you can see.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42611\" title=\"Firefox Panel Menu\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/06\/FIrefoxMenu2-copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/06\/FIrefoxMenu2-copy.png 600w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/06\/FIrefoxMenu2-copy-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Download the latest stable version of Firefox for <a href=\"http:\/\/firefox.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Windows<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/firefox-mac.en.softonic.com\/mac\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Mac<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New look curved tabs, a big new back button and other changes are coming with Firefox 25 which looks like being the biggest refresh of Mozilla&#8217;s browser since version 4. The current stable release is Firefox 21, but 25 should be released by October. The latest &#8216;nightly builds&#8217; &#8211; the freshest downloadable test versions &#8211;\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/firefox-25-getting-new-design-and-updated-interface\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Firefox 25 getting new design and updated interface&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-42599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332824,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42599\/revisions\/332824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42599"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=42599"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=42599"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=42599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}