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Looks like they got rid of them again...

Man, I don't know what is taking them so long with this small feature. Chrome's had it for ages. Hell the initial implementation they had before they first backed it out was working fine for me.

And its not even just a visual issue, because reordering the tabs without the animations is more finicky then with. just compare re-ordering tabs in chrome vs firefox :(

Man, I don't know what is taking them so long with this small feature. Chrome's had it for ages. Hell the initial implementation they had before they first backed it out was working fine for me.

And its not even just a visual issue, because reordering the tabs without the animations is more finicky then with. just compare re-ordering tabs in chrome vs firefox :(

Yep. A lot of people just call it eye candy, but I find re-ordering tabs a much better experience when the tabs are moving into place while dragging instead of watching the little arrow jump between tabs. I honestly didn't care for the arrow method when Firefox first got native tab re-ordering (was that like version 1.5?), but I figured they would've improved on it long before now.

That being said, while the tab re-ordering and detach animations always worked great for me, I've tried it on older computers and it wasn't so great. I can't imagine how bad it is/was on a netbook.

Yep. A lot of people just call it eye candy, but I find re-ordering tabs a much better experience when the tabs are moving into place while dragging instead of watching the little arrow jump between tabs. I honestly didn't care for the arrow method when Firefox first got native tab re-ordering (was that like version 1.5?), but I figured they would've improved on it long before now.

That being said, while the tab re-ordering and detach animations always worked great for me, I've tried it on older computers and it wasn't so great. I can't imagine how bad it is/was on a netbook.

It definitely is kind of ridiculous how much they have performance issues with simple animations. On my laptop (2.53ghz i5, intel graphics) even the regular open/close animations are laggy. I had never tried the re-ordering animations on my laptop though. On my gaming desktop its pretty much as smooth as chrome, but the hardware on my laptop should certainly be able to handle smooth animations.

So they really can make firefox uglier if they try.

It's just a quick skin of IE10, with Firefox flavor. Not even close to what final design will look like. The main purpose of it was to outline what they are going to do with transitions.

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