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by crazygringo 5149 days ago
Why does "no longer a modal dialog" = "GUI improvement"? This isn't obvious to me at all...
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Because just looking at the preferences blocks everything else in Firefox? Given how important a browser is, this is quite annoying.

A trivial example is opening up preferences and then wanting to Google to figure out how to configure something. Not possible in the current design.