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If Firefox does away with tabs, then I will do away with Firefox. No reason to use it if it does this. Other browsers are already faster, more elegant, and bet
by quoderat 17y ago
If Firefox does away with tabs, then I will do away with Firefox.
No reason to use it if it does this. Other browsers are already faster, more elegant, and better in many ways. What most of them don't have is extensions.
But even with the strength of Firefox's extension model, expect mass abandonment if they do away with tabs.
I doubt tabs are the be-all and end-all of browser UI, but what they want to replace it with is certainly much, much worse.
- xiaoma 17y agoWouldn't "gimme back my tabs" be one of the first extensions written if this did come to pass?
- quoderat 17y agoMaybe. Since the developers are getting overzealous, my guess is that they might try to block tab use altogether, a la how the Gnome developers operate. All software projects that are successful seem to go through an open, inclusive, customizable period, then a user-hostile, closed non-customizable one. Gnome, Windows, etc., have all done this. No reason to suspect Firefox won't, either.