Introducing a new HTML element – welcome &lt;clippy&gt;

Re:Introducing a new HTML element – welcome <clippy> by Jach on Thursday June 13, 2019 @02:44PM (#20177554)

Have you tried customizing the UI? Last time I tried out-of-the-box Firefox it disgusted me pretty quickly due to how Chrome-like it was, but that's because I never liked the default Chrome UI. In any case I bring up customization since while I've never left Firefox, their last good out-of-the-box UI was like Firefox 1.4 or maybe 2. Firefox is incredibly customizable though (even if less so now) and so it looks and feels how I prefer which no other browser duplicates out of the box (not even Firefox) and no other browser even makes possible. I guess I'm a "power user" for wanting to fit the tool to my hands rather than my hands to the tool, and Firefox is the only browser that spares a thought for me.

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Re:Introducing a new HTML element – welcome <clippy> by jazoom on Thursday June 13, 2019 @03:05PM (#20177717)

Even extensions in Firefox can't customise the page you see when you open the browser! I used a "new tab" extension, but for some reason Firefox doesn't treat the first tab you open as a "new tab"(1). I quickly noticed heaps of annoyances like that when I recently tried to switch to Firefox.

1. I'm pretty sure there is an issue for this in their tracker but they don't seem to think it's important enough to fix.

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Re:Introducing a new HTML element – welcome <clippy> by eitland on Friday June 14, 2019 @12:58AM (#20180691)

It used to be in settings. You could typically choose between something like:

- restore pages from last time

- start page (input url)

- default new page chrome

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Re:Introducing a new HTML element – welcome <clippy> by jazoom on Friday June 14, 2019 @04:53AM (#20181447)

Thank you. Unfortunately I've moved on to Vivaldi (happily). If your solution works I didn't find it, nor did any internet searching help me to find it.

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