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If UI changes needed everyone's approval, we would still be looking like a 1990's browser.
Changing menu item names and locations is just stupid. A month later and I am still looking for "Undo Close Tab." Was it really that important to change the name to "Reopen Closed Tab?"
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Agreed, i’m also a happy FF user… The satisfied users don’t post comments as much i assume. Haters gonna hate, that’s just how it is.
>Haters gonna hate, that’s just how it is. I think that is the wrong end of the stick. People complain about Firefox not because they hate it. They complain because they care . It is the same thing with Apple or in fact any other brands. They want it to be better, they want to come back or keep using Firefox. And they want more people to use it ( for one reason or another ). So the saying good there is no such thing…
I use and love FF, but FF's market share is very low and shrinking. If they can't do anything to turn that trend around, web developers will ignore it, and it will become useless for many sites.
FF users have to wish/hope that FF rights this ship, and that means they can't afford to lose any more users (and really, that they must somehow reverse course and acquire new users). So every update feels really important - the shrinking user base is an existential threat to the browser.
It's a shame Firefox is dying. I see more and more websites that simply refuse to work on Firefox and with the decreasing market share and breaking changes they seem to be introducing every update now it's harder than ever to justify not switching over to a chromium based browser.
What sites are refusing to work with Firefox? I've seen it with some apple.com stuff.
I've had problems recently with banking/finance sites and Wix.
Meanwhile debian unstable is still on version 88, there hasn't even been an update to patch the various security vulns.
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If UI changes needed everyone's approval, we would still be looking like a 1990's browser.
Changing menu item names and locations is just stupid. A month later and I am still looking for "Undo Close Tab." Was it really that important to change the name to "Reopen Closed Tab?"
ctrl+shift+n to reopen the last window.
I have to admit the only real reason I'm on FF is tree style tabs. All the tabs on the left of the screen, with little markers to expand or minimize the tree. No tabs along the top (needs a tiny bit of css), plus I can customize the look. I tried to get Chrome to do this but nothing was satisfying. Now it's not like FF is inferior in all other ways, it is actually a pretty good experience. But TST is the big one for…
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If UI changes needed everyone's approval, we would still be looking like a 1990's browser.
Would that be so bad? Netscape Navigator 4.6 circa 1999: https://ia902901.us.archive.org/21/items/netscapecommunicato... Twenty three years of churn has brought what UX benefits exactly? Hiding the protocol, hiding details about secure connections, hiding the status bar, hiding the text on tiny buttons, hiding the menus: https://mk0ghacksnety2pjrgh8.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/upload... and for what? Optimising for peop…
Firefox 2 looked fine in my opinion, I would be happy if they just kept it as it was back then.
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Equally a lot of users are happy with it. Should those users have been disregarded instead?
It's a good way to further push away a chunk of your userbase. They're moving towards a touch-friendly UI, but a lot of us just want a compact desktop app that doesn't waste screen space with excessive padding. The proper solution to this would be to have different modes if this is so critical. To their credit they did put in a "compact" mode after beta, but this is explicitly "unsupported" and even then still has mo…
There's Vivaldi, and it too uses HTML for its interface, but the team doesn't seem to care about UI performance at all.
So much negativity. Just here to report that I am a happy Firefox user, no complaints here. Thank you Mozilla for making a browser that respects me.
The real negativity can be seen in the market that largely rejected this garbage browser.
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What I don't like about Firefox is the fact that it will load all the tabs and windows you had opened before shuting down the computer and there is not a clean way to make it stop. When I finish my day, I like to shutdown the computer and go to sleep or whatever and every day when I open Firefox, all the windows will reopen and I need to close it and re-start... I just want to be able to disable this behaviour from t…
by default, on a fresh I install, Firefox dont saves the tabs. You would enabled it.