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What We're Working on in Firefox

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Re: What We're Working on in Firefox

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Nice! Firefox is in a good place, because the browser, at this stage (version 126), is really good and fast. And this post seems to point that the development is going in a good direction.

Re: What We're Working on in Firefox

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I still remember the launch of Firefox 3 back in the day. I'm so glad it's still around, and they keep working on it.

I don't think there's a single piece of software I've gotten more utility out of in all that time. It's definitely not perfect, but we'd be in a worse world without it.

Re: What We're Working on in Firefox

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> More streamlined menus that reduce visual clutter and prioritize top user actions so you can get to the important things quicker

Oh no, more of this.

What about less used options? How much slower? How much less discoverable?

Desktop applications are already for power users almost by definition, let’s not slow them down for the sake of reducing “clutter”. Absolutely annoying trend of the last 15 years or so.

Re: What We're Working on in Firefox

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I still remember the launch of Firefox 3 back in the day. I'm so glad it's still around, and they keep working on it. I don't think there's a single piece of software I've gotten more utility out of in all that time. It's definitely not perfect, but we'd be in a worse world without it.

It's funny to think about in retrospect how exciting Firefox 3 was. Planning began in 2006, and release was 2008. Acid2! Cairo! Better Linux theming!

It was just such a different release cadence.

Re: What We're Working on in Firefox

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I still remember the launch of Firefox 3 back in the day. I'm so glad it's still around, and they keep working on it. I don't think there's a single piece of software I've gotten more utility out of in all that time. It's definitely not perfect, but we'd be in a worse world without it.

I have fond memories of 3 and 4... Started using it somewhen around 2 :)

Re: What We're Working on in Firefox

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For me, the big thing Firefox needs is better power management.

Mac user here, and streaming video or doing a video call just kills my battery compared to Chrome or Safari.

Would love to see more focus on energy consumption optimization.

Re: What We're Working on in Firefox

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> Intuitive privacy settings that deliver all the power of our world-class anti-tracking technologies in a simplified, easy-to-understand way.

> More streamlined menus that reduce visual clutter and prioritize top user actions so you can get to the important things quicker.

Stop it. Gnome-ification is incredibly user hostile. Almost every time folks "simplify" a UI, they actually make it far more complicated instead.

If your users now have to use dconf or userChrome.css to do the things they are accustomed to doing, you have not simplified anything.

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