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by soraminazuki 1331 days ago
> or whatever-the-colors-thing-was-called. I have to click the "what's new" button in the menu

Theming and introduction of new features are legit features. Not even remotely the same as Google hijacking competing search services.
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nicbou 1331 days ago
According to Mozilla, they're not just themes. They make the world a better place.
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soraminazuki 1331 days ago
You're just nitpicking on the otherwise innocent wording they use to introduce new features. How's that supposed to be more egregious than what Google is doing here?

If that is enough to put you up in arms against Mozilla, you should see Google's PR notice when they suddenly kill off one of their services.

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nicbou 1330 days ago
I use Firefox. However I can't help but chuckle at how they introduced it. Some people at Mozilla live on a different planet.

It's not a comparison to Google, just something silly that Mozilla does. Google is a boring kind of evil. There's no fun to it.

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witrak 1328 days ago
>I use Firefox. However I can't help but chuckle at how they introduced it. Some people at Mozilla live on a different planet.

Exactly. Next example: 2 weeks ago they introduced a new version of the internal pdf viewer and set it as default (that I accept - it's their application). However, when you set FF as the default browser in Windows they make the browser a default pdf application too (see Release Notes 106.0).

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LegitShady 1330 days ago
no I disagree. I use firefox. I don't actually mind the new tab, although I don't really understand what its there for. mine just shows me my recently closed tabs.

But the color theming thing on the page tries to show me how virtuous it is to pick a color theme, and turns my stomach. they couldn't just let me pick a color, they have to try to talk about why its a good thing for society to pick a color on my firefox theme. The exact text says:

>Color can change culture. The latest colorways celebrate voices making the world a better place.

This is stupid nonsense and should never have made it out to users as if picking a color does anything other than picking a theme color. Stop trying to co-opt social nonsense to justify a theming feature. It's incredibly difficult to understand who reads this tripe and feels good about picking a color to 'celebrate voices making the world a better place' by 'changing culture'.

The people who release a theme color feature under the flag of social change need to be removed from the product development team, they are already driving down the average IQ. They are buffoons, advertising features in a way that only buffoons would appreciate.

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