In an attempt to reduce duplication of effort between the projects, especially the closely-related MATE (a fork of GNOME 2) and Cinnamon (a fork of GNOME 3), the Mint team develops the XApps suite – versions of the various accessory apps with traditional user interfaces: conventional title and menu bars, rather than GNOME's CSD. Recent versions of Xfce and MATE have both switched to Gtk3, and Cinnamon has always used it. It also offers an edition with the lighter-weight Xfce desktop. Mint was an early adopter of the MATE desktop, as well as building its own desktop, Cinnamon – which originated as the Mint GNOME Shell Extensions, which made GNOME 3 more 'traditional': taskbar, start menu, and so on. There's a new dark mode, although it's not system-wide yet rounded window corners, with bigger title bars and controls and fewer colourful accents in window buttons, menus and the file manager's sidebar. The other changes in this version of Mint are similarly modest, as befits what will almost certainly be the last point-release of Mint 20. For example, the Firefox icon is changing to follow Mozilla’s usage guidelines.īy the way, if you have disabled telemetry in Firefox, you should check to see if it's still off. With this partnership we also satisfy Mozilla’s requests when it comes to using their intellectual property (their name, brands and identity).

Firefox no longer includes code changes or patches from Linux Mint, Debian or Ubuntu.The default configuration switches from Mint defaults to Mozilla defaults.The default search engines no longer include Linux Mint search partners (Yahoo, DuckDuckGo…) but Mozilla search partners (Google, Amazon, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Ebay…).The default start page no longer points to.Most of this configuration is abandoned to go back to Mozilla defaults. In the past Linux Mint used its own default settings and configured Firefox in a specific way.

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