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Re:Firefox Release 89.0 by anonymousab on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @10:20AM (#27354898)
If you use niche or power user features frequently, then it can feel like almost every single update is reworking or removing a feature you depend on.

Firefox updates are a constant stream of "1% of users use this feature so it's fine to do X to it" but it turns out that a lot of people fall into a lot of those small buckets at once.

Re:Firefox Release 89.0 by BuckRogers on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @10:41AM (#27355137)
The 1%, that was the excuse to delete my live bookmarks feature. Which was fine in a way because addons took its place, but that further pushed the 1-3% of users that knew about it to almost certainly doom it to 0.1% over time. No discoverability at all.
Re:Firefox Release 89.0 by dandellion on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @01:02PM (#27357739)
They also removed bookmark description. Little by little they're removing every feature I've come to like in the last fifteen years.
Re:Firefox Release 89.0 by tinus_hn on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @10:48AM (#27355224)
And then after 99 times they act all surprised there’s no users left. They are killing themselves by a thousand cuts.
Re:Firefox Release 89.0 by forgotpwd16 on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @11:27AM (#27355923)
What features are you talking about?
Re:Firefox Release 89.0 by j_4 on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @11:48AM (#27356384)
E.g. the last update removed right click -> open image, which I used all the time to view images in full screen. Now there's only an option to open the image in a new tab, which requires additional clicks to achieve the same thing.
Re:Firefox Release 89.0 by myfonj on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @12:04PM (#27356671)
Plus clicking the original "Open image" with middle mouse button (or invoking with alt+enter, IIRC) always did exactly what new command does, opened image in new tab.

New command apparently lacks alternative usage forcing current tab, but still opens image in new window instead of tab with Ctrl modifier. (Maybe it would be possible to plead for re-introduction of similar modifier?)

At least we can still drag/n/drop plain images to the Tab bar.

Re:Firefox Release 89.0 by forgotpwd16 on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @11:56AM (#27356516)
Indeed a bad change considering you could open an image to new tab with middle-click but now there's no way to open in current tab.