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by ghusto 1254 days ago
I see these kinds of comments a lot, especially here. I've never understood them though, and always thought I was missing some insider knowledge.

Can you give some examples of bad things they've done to Firefox, to someone who thinks Firefox is pretty good?
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Yizahi 1254 days ago
Degrading and disabling by default separate search bar (don't remember what exactly was removed, it was a long time ago)

Degrading Uglybar (address bar), some functionality was cut, last searches are not displayed and replaced with pinned sites. UI of Uglybar was changed a lot and made gigantic and also just a little bit moving so that cursor selected text by 2-3 characters to the side. After a year of shouting and FF team demonstrating exemplary asshole attitude on r/firefox some of the UI only changes were toned down, not completely though. And functional changes remained.

Removal of some compatibility with older extensions.

URL trimming in Uglybar, thankfully that's can be re-enabled for now. (I consider this anti-consumer, just like Google's attempts to push centralized AMP on us).

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richliss 1254 days ago
There's definitely some on here that are a waste of resources... https://killedbymozilla.com/

Here's something done badly - Firefox View's Tab Pickup. Because as we know, no one ever opens more than 3 tabs. So that isn't used by many because of that and unless it's implemented into a proper list with actions against it then it will die a death of underuse.

I'd absolutely love to see Mitchell Baker do a Reddit AMA and actually answer inconvenient questions because there would be plenty of them.

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ghusto 1254 days ago
> Here's something done badly - Firefox View's Tab Pickup. Because as we know, no one ever opens more than 3 tabs

Yup, I remember this coming out and playing around with it. The fact that I disabled it / never saw it again, probably re-enforces your argument that it was done badly. But when you say "So that isn't used by many because of that", do you mean because it was implemented poorly?

Hmm, now that I've looked at it again to see what it was, I'm wondering why I opted not to use it :/ Might give it another spin.

EDIT: Now I remember. It can't be set as the default page for new tabs or windows. Which is ... a strange decision?

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