Re:Firefox OS 2.5 Developer Preview, an Experimental Android...
by josteink on Thursday November 12, 2015 @04:20PM
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While I agree with most of your criticism, I actually find them visualizing new features a good thing.
Right now the Firefox dev team is preparing to axe Panorama/Tab-groups[1], one of those superior Firefox-only features, because supposedly only 1% of the users are using it.
That sounds reasonable, until you ask "Has the feature been marketed at all?". When the answer is no, even 1% seems like high adaptation and axing suddenly sounds less like the right answer.
Why didn't they market this feature more? It's absolute genius, and allows an efficient keyboard-only driven browsing experience with almost countless tabs, and it's correspondingly bonkers to be removing it.
Right now the Firefox dev team is preparing to axe Panorama/Tab-groups[1], one of those superior Firefox-only features, because supposedly only 1% of the users are using it.
That sounds reasonable, until you ask "Has the feature been marketed at all?". When the answer is no, even 1% seems like high adaptation and axing suddenly sounds less like the right answer.
Why didn't they market this feature more? It's absolute genius, and allows an efficient keyboard-only driven browsing experience with almost countless tabs, and it's correspondingly bonkers to be removing it.
[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tab-groups-removal