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Mozilla needs to stop messing with the UI and removing functionality. From removing a lot of UI customization, to requiring extension signing, forcing PulseAudi
by felixer 9y ago
Mozilla needs to stop messing with the UI and removing functionality. From removing a lot of UI customization, to requiring extension signing, forcing PulseAudio on Linux and now removing the search bar. Congratulations Mozilla, it's Chrome.
I'm not sure who they're catering to anymore. People that like Chrome, but don't want to use it?
Edit: it looks very different than Chrome, but I feel like they're constantly copying (removing) functionality
- kuschku 9y agoThey’re messing with the UI because the current UI still uses XUL (an antiquated XML based widget toolkit with lots of bugs, slow performance, and the cause of many Firefox issues). This new UI is entirely HTML – allowing the browser to be a lot faster. > to requiring extension signing That’s to prevent the vast majority of Firefox users from getting auto-installed toolbars. > forcing PulseAudio on Linux You’re free to maintain the Firefox ALSA backend, which less than 1% of Linux users use, and which no one was willing to continue maintaining.
- dralley 9y ago>This new UI is entirely HTML – allowing the browser to be a lot faster. No, that is definitely not true. The rewrite is, however, part of an effort to make the UI something which can be represented in HTML easily, and they may be working on making as much of it HTML as possible, but bits of the UI will be XUL for a long time to come.
- felixer 9y agoIf they don't kill VimFX and Tree Style Tabs, I might still stick around because the competition is pretty weak. FireFox without audio pretty much sucks though.
- SAI_Peregrinus 9y agoTree Style Tabs won't work with WebExtensions unless some new features get added to that framework.