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Alrighty. Okay.
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♪ (inspirational piano music) ♪
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ahem
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Feeling good.
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exhale
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Why fix something that isn't broken? I hate that question. laugh
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UIs are a bit like fashion - sometimes you change the way your clothes looks,
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even though the clothes isn't broken.
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Sometimes you need a new fresh look on something.
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Aesthetics change and we learn lessons over time
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and we have to correct our mistakes from the past.
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I'm really excited to talk to the world about these changes.
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Our users have changed, their behaviors have changed,
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competitors have changed, the way people use the Web,
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the Web has changed, right?
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Those little things, the little refinements that just
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take something from a good idea to - you know. woosh
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Beautiful.
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I mean, we already hear about people who click that bookmark
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and then unbookmark and bookmark again, just to see it go,
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right? And that's what you want, you want these little
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delightful moments.
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Biggest under-the-hood change was the way we do customization.
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If you remove all of the buttons out of the menu panel,
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now we show a bouncing unicorn.
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Tabs! You wouldn't think it would be such an impassioned topic,
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but it is.
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No, there's been no physical violence.
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Those tabs are, like, buttery smooth now.
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Why curvy tabs?
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We've gone from kind of the square tabs
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and we wanted something more aerodynamic.
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They're smooth as silk.That's something I'm particularly proud of.
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We put a lot of work into making them look aerodynamic,
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so they actually appear faster, but we also put a lot of work on
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the technical side, to make them actually be faster.
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Madhava with a tab strapped to his head to prove that our tabs
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are 20% more streamlined than the competition.
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With the air flowing over it in a wind tunnel.
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It was surprisingly hard.
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Our engineers are just amazing, they're magicians and they
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can make anything happen.
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This is the biggest change that I've seen in Firefox in its history.
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