> It was great for the extension ecosystem, which, of course, could literally do anything. Right, and that helped keep the rest of the browser stuck and slow.

> It was great for the extension ecosystem, which, of course, could literally do anything. Right, and that helped keep the rest of the browser stuck and slow. I think electrolysis really drove this realization home. > While at the time I last used it there still were separate UI elements for the address bar and the search bar As far as the "hitting tab one extra time" is concerned, yeah, that should be customizeable. You can get rid of the search bar (which I do), but in case you have both visible you really don't need the awesomebar to do searches. I wonder if I can add customization easily. In my personal workflow half of the time I need search but I get that that's not for everyone. > Though these are sold as uniformly good, they come with tradeoffs, and Mozilla is choosing to make the same tradeoffs as Chrome Fair. However, they both seem to address the needs of the majority of the user base (fast browser that works with modern websites and modern browser usage, not something that can be easily done with single process or a slow release cycle). This does mean that some users lose out. Totally agree with the power users point. I was annoyed with the removal of Panorama as well. I now use Vertical Tabs (and may switch to Tree Style) and it is good enough, but if my tab usage was even higher it wouldn't be. > In the long term, I will have to switch to something else Sorry to hear that. I personally used to use Chrome (since around 2010) even when I started contributing to Firefox (I contributed to Firefox because it was easier; Chromium didn't have a great build/contribution process). I later stopped contributing to Firefox because I didn't have time, but I switched over to it around last year because it got much better. I'm surprised that folks find that it got worse in that time period, but I suspect it's just that the changes I liked were disliked by others.