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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by majewsky on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @05:28AM (#24130019)
Mozilla understands that very well. Otherwise userChrome.css wouldn't exist. They just made it so that it's abundantly clear that if you screw up your userChrome.css, it's your fault, not Mozilla's.
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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by FeepingCreature on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @06:27AM (#24130404)
Yeah, which is bullshit.

You can't both say "well we let you do it, we're so customizable" and "but if you do and anything goes wrong, it's your fault."

I'd rather that userchrome get removed and Firefox own up to the fact that they're not gonna properly support what users want.

A company who puts users first should not be ashamed of supporting their users' desires. You either support your users or you fight your users. Mozilla have somehow decided to publicly fight their users and furtively and abortively support them in secret; I really don't get how they think that reflects well on them. It feels like Moz are more trying to appease their own UX designers than their userbase.

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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by eitland on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @07:01AM (#24130674)
A better solution would probably be to add a proper API to move the tabs around and then some possibility to customize them.

FWIW Mozilla even experimented with vertical tabs, only they made the tab column so high it interfered with the URL bar and also didn't support nesting.

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