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Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice

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Re: Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice

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Post by tux »

I really like firefox and still use it as my main browser. But you guys started to force users to your own standards. By locking or removing many options.

For example, you have locked (left and right) arrows and now refresh button. What's next home button ? I don't mind arrows been locked, even throught I like to have a choice. But having my refresh button locked in one place without ability to move it to alternative spot is just rediculous.

Then you guys completely removed JavaScript disable option, even throught I can still enable it by going to "about:config" and switching "javascript:enabled" from "true" to "false".

Another weird option which is missing is ability to disable PDF view inside firefox browser. Again I can use "about:config" and switch "pdfjs.disabled" from "false" to "true".

But having this options in Preferences will be much better.

Not to mantion a lot of websites load much faster in Chrome or Chromium then Firefox.

I think this is why many people ether user it as second browser or switching from Firefox to Chrome/Chromium.

As for Google search engine, I have been using "DuckDuckGo.com" as alternative for some time now. For email use "ZoHo.com" instead of Gmail.com

Re: Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice

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Post by walterbell »

tux wrote: post #2

I really like firefox and still use it as my main browser. But you guys started to force users to your own standards. By locking or removing many options. For example, you have locked (left and right) arrows and now refresh button. What's next home button ? I don't mind arrows been locked, even throught I like to have a choice. But having my refresh button locked in one place without ability to move it to alternative…

We need a community-edited index of debatable changes, linked to bugzilla issues where the rationale is discussed. This would be a subset of the overall changelog, which has many technical changes that arent controversial among users or the developer ecosystem.

Re: Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice

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Post by kbrosnan »

tux wrote: post #2

I really like firefox and still use it as my main browser. But you guys started to force users to your own standards. By locking or removing many options. For example, you have locked (left and right) arrows and now refresh button. What's next home button ? I don't mind arrows been locked, even throught I like to have a choice. But having my refresh button locked in one place without ability to move it to alternative…

There is a non-about:config process to choose the PDF viewing method. See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/view-pdf-files-firefox-...

Re: Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice

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Post by corobo »

Squarex wrote: post #6
corobo wrote: post #5

Does Firefox have separate processes per tab/window yet? Literally the only reason I switched to Chrome back when

It does have it in nightly versions but not enabled by default. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis

Ah, going by many software burns in the past I'll wait until it's a stable feature before making the journey back

Re: Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice

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Post by wingerlang »

I've gone back to FF after using Chrome literally form the day it landed. I changed because of vimperator + the ability to theme the header slimmer (i'm on laptop 24/7).

But frankly it kind of sucks a bit and I have to jump over to Chrome a lot because almost no videos will play in FF.

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