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Browser is a tool to browse the web. Tools need to be functional first. There is a reason why there's no "summer 2021 hammer" in hardware store.

• jhanschoo 5y ago
  Considering how complex the web is, and how technologically complicated a browser needs to be regardless of UX, a car analogy is perhaps more appropriate; and you do have '21 models of cars.
  • SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago
    Yet none of these new model cars re-arrange the pedals. They'll change the style of the brake lights, the trim, etc, but the basic "4 wheels, front two steer, wheel turns towards the direction you want to steer, brake, gas pedal" is fixed. But with software (including Firefox) even the operational aspects change, not just the cosmetics.
    • zejn 5y ago
      Even more: with software, everything can and does change overnight. As if some pervert burgles your garage and does not go stealing, but replacing your car.
    • jhanschoo 5y ago
      But the basic way you navigate the web doesn't change much either; there's still the address bar, back button, and html and JavaScript. And you're underrepresenting how much change can happen for a given model: over decades the Honda Civic has gone from manual to continuously variable transmission, and entirely different chassis, etc. as technology and safety expectations evolve, and it's no exception.
• rurp 5y ago
  Oh man, I would LOVE it if more software was developed as a tool. I absolutely don't want the look and feel of my miter saw to suddenly change to a "fresh" layout, and I feel the same about my browser. I get that a lot of people feel differently and that's who Mozilla and many other companies are targetting, but it really bums me out that my tech tools can't be stable and reliable.