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Re:Firefox 75.0 by soulofmischief on Friday April 10, 2020 @10:51AM (#22833585)
Hardcore Firefox fanboy since its humble beginnings.

Since 60/Quantum, I can't think of a single UX change which hasn't been detrimental. Someone up top is souring the entire product in a misguided attempt to recapture market share. But all they're doing is continuing to bleed out remaining users, the majority of whom are likely somewhere between the casual and power user.

Re:Firefox 75.0 by pmachinery on Friday April 10, 2020 @02:39PM (#22836052)
> Hardcore Firefox fanboy since its humble beginnings.

Same here. And although I may stick with it due to my loathing of the alternatives, I'm increasingly sick of it. The complaints about the new URL bar/bookmarks toolbar were exactly my experience, but what's worse is Mozilla just doesn't care[0].

They also have a mobile browser called Firefox Lite which after a recent update displayed sponsored ads as top sites on the home screen.

Not a problem though, just remove them and put your own chosen sites, right? Wrong. It's not possible.

Repeat: Mozilla forces unremovable advertising as top sites on the home screen of one of their mobile browsers, used by millions of people.

On the download page for this product[1] Mozilla modestly promotes itself as:

"dedicated to keeping the power of the internet in people's hands"

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22832729

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.ro...

Re:Firefox 75.0 by soulofmischief on Friday April 10, 2020 @03:27PM (#22836477)
The splintering of their mobile platform into several overlapping apps is its own hot pile of garbage, if you ask me. I haven't even tried Firefox Lite but if they do that with Focus then I'll be pretty incensed.