On Our Abusive Relationship with Mozilla’s Firefox

Re:On Our Abusive Relationship with Mozilla’s Firefox by csmattryder on Friday October 23, 2020 @11:37AM (#24870608)

The Megabar is such a surprisingly trivial hill for Mozilla to die on.

I made a few posts on the subreddit about it, I saw numerous others with the same complaint - the motion is unnecessary and distracting. It's a common enough opinion that surely an about:config preference could warrant being tossed in.

I ended up moving browsers, and as a consequence, all web projects I build will have first-class support for my browser of choice, with Firefox/Gecko testing later on when time allows. As a consequence of that, the web performs worse in Firefox.

I'll be back, as soon as the next UI revolution happens, but until then competitors have free-reign to attempt to permanently win me over.

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Re:On Our Abusive Relationship with Mozilla’s Firefox by pitaj on Friday October 23, 2020 @11:39AM (#24870645)

It seems more like a weird hill for you to die on.

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Re:On Our Abusive Relationship with Mozilla’s Firefox by pornel on Friday October 23, 2020 @11:53AM (#24870803)

It's an amazing echo chamber. 7 pixels in the address bar were the end of Mozilla. In reality, most people who browse the Web barely know what address bar is, and couldn't care less how much padding it has.

I use Nightly and haven't even noticed when it changed. I've only learned about the "controversy" after the fact. But then again, I must be a lunatic, because I think Pocket is useful.

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Re:On Our Abusive Relationship with Mozilla’s Firefox by Ygg2 on Friday October 23, 2020 @12:01PM (#24870894)

> I must be a lunatic, because I think Pocket is useful.

There is another lunatic like me?

Yeah, I like Pocket, it can't be trained like Google news. I wish I could use Pocket recommendations on desktop.

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Re:On Our Abusive Relationship with Mozilla’s Firefox by dralley on Friday October 23, 2020 @12:35PM (#24871253)

>Yeah, I like Pocket, it can't be trained like Google news. I wish I could use Pocket recommendations on desktop.

You... can? Unless I'm totally misunderstanding what you mean.

Unless you're using a linux distro that compiles it out or something, it should be right there in as an option in about:preferences#home

https://imgur.com/a/1Shcxoo

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Re:On Our Abusive Relationship with Mozilla’s Firefox by Ygg2 on Saturday October 24, 2020 @04:32AM (#24877786)

At least on mobile, you can or could tell Google news to prioritize certain topics. Or that some don't interest you.

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Re:On Our Abusive Relationship with Mozilla’s Firefox by doc_gunthrop on Friday October 23, 2020 @01:24PM (#24871768)

The controversy surrounding the megabar was awkward. Despite all the people clamoring against it, Mozilla would not budge.

It wasn't until someone with epilepsy made a case that they allowed users to make the change from the about:config page.

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Re:On Our Abusive Relationship with Mozilla’s Firefox by Dahoon on Friday October 23, 2020 @11:51AM (#24870786)

If the megabar is enough to get you to switch browser you'd likely be better of where you are now anyway. It's such a tiny totally unimportant thing. I didn't even notice it untill I read complaints about it.

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Re:On Our Abusive Relationship with Mozilla’s Firefox by 1_player on Friday October 23, 2020 @12:00PM (#24870891)

I'd go so far as to say "I like it." Might be disliked by some, fine, but plenty have been shouting against it as if it had been designed by Satan himself.

It's just a textbox that expands when focused. Is it really so irritating to want to switch browsers?

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