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If you use niche or power user features frequently, then it can feel like almost every single update is reworking or removing a feature you depend on. Firefox
by anonymousab 5y ago
If you use niche or power user features frequently, then it can feel like almost every single update is reworking or removing a feature you depend on.
Firefox updates are a constant stream of "1% of users use this feature so it's fine to do X to it" but it turns out that a lot of people fall into a lot of those small buckets at once.
- BuckRogers 5y agoThe 1%, that was the excuse to delete my live bookmarks feature. Which was fine in a way because addons took its place, but that further pushed the 1-3% of users that knew about it to almost certainly doom it to 0.1% over time. No discoverability at all.
- dandellion 5y agoThey also removed bookmark description. Little by little they're removing every feature I've come to like in the last fifteen years.
- tinus_hn 5y agoAnd then after 99 times they act all surprised there’s no users left. They are killing themselves by a thousand cuts.
- forgotpwd16 5y agoWhat features are you talking about?
- j_4 5y agoE.g. the last update removed right click -> open image, which I used all the time to view images in full screen. Now there's only an option to open the image in a new tab, which requires additional clicks to achieve the same thing.
- forgotpwd16 5y agoIndeed a bad change considering you could open an image to new tab with middle-click but now there's no way to open in current tab.
- myfonj 5y agoPlus clicking the original "Open image" with middle mouse button (or invoking with alt+enter, IIRC) always did exactly what new command does, opened image in new tab. New command apparently lacks alternative usage forcing current tab, but still opens image in new window instead of tab with Ctrl modifier. (Maybe it would be possible to plead for re-introduction of similar modifier?) At least we can still drag/n/drop plain images to the Tab bar.