Got I hate telemetry. I usually (and I imagine many people) turn it off because I don't like my stuff phoning back to the mothership, but then some brainless moron mindlessly uses their "data" for decision-making, and rips out good features.
This is especially dumb for Mozilla. Who do they think still uses Firefox? The people who want some dumbed down minimalist lookalike? Their overall browser market-share isn't too much more than Samsung Internet, and probably the only reason anyone still uses it anymore is that it's not as dumbed down as Chrome. Maybe they should just run with being the browser for power users, with all kinds of interesting niche features and customization.
Honestly, UX telemetery probably should be banned for everything except error reporting. Nothing good seems to come of it. If you want to know what people do with your stuff, just try to empathize and maybe have some focus groups.
The ship has long sailed after they killed their addon ecosystem by killing XUL addons. The quality and feature-sets of addons took as much a nosedive as their user-share.
Since then, they were keen on continuing this trajectory, and introduced multiple UX/UI regressions that alienated all (most?) of their power users, sometimes even disallowing fixes through about:config.
That .gov analytics site that was posted here yesterday showed Firefox setting at 2.4%, which is just about right for all the string of horrible decisions they've made.
The horse is dead, Jim. And, unlike an old movie or a videogame, almost no one is going to have nostalgia feelings for a web browser.
I have more nostalgia for old Firefox [EDIT:] and for the old W95/NT4/98/2K GUI [/EDIT] than for any game or movie.
Yes I know there is talk about privacy and security issues with telemetry, and I don't necessarily like it myself, but if we don't vote with our data then the developers of these systems won't recognise what we use and we will lose it.
Probably not the most popular view around here but if companies use these metrics to decide what is important then maybe we should contribute some data.
There is a workaround using custom AOM collections but it's annoying to have a feature removed.
Now I use Win+Ctrl+Space but it doesn't work at all if certain apps are focused, ironically VSCode and Windows Terminal, so you have to enable some "compatibility mode" that also doesn't work properly sometimes with those apps in focus. The PowerToys Run window pops up but it isn't always focused.
Might have to fork the damn thing and reinstate the old hotkey code :/
Aside to your larger point, but WIN+SHIFT+DOWN ARROW (restore), WIN+SHIFT+LEFT or RIGHT ARROW (move monitor) are an alternative go-to for saving off-screen windows.
You can also reconfigure Powertoys Run to use a different key-combination than ALT-Space.
PowerToys used to be a rather benign system enhancement. It didn't take away any features I already relied on, it just added new features.
So when I saw that there was a new PowerToys for Windows 10, I installed it. I figured it wouldn't get in the way and I would discover its enhancements over time.
I didn't know at the time that it would disable a basic system keyboard shortcut that I had relied on decades.
The problem was that in the moment, I did not understand why my Alt+Space shortcut that had always worked before instead brought up this weird launcher window instead of the standard system menu I was expecting. After fiddling around for some time, I gave up and rebooted and lost data.
Once I learned what was going on, I switched the shortcut in PowerToys.
That does not excuse the PowerToys team for disabling a fundamental Windows shortcut key combo.
Finally a use for the windows key! (on top of win+shift+arrows)
In every version of Windows since at least 2.0, Alt+Space has worked to bring up the system menu for the current window. This is the same menu you get if you click the app icon in the top left corner.
Once in a while, this has been a lifesaver for me when a window gets stuck offscreen with my multiple monitor configuration. It is a bit tricky, but even if you can't see the window, you can press Alt+Space to open the system menu, then M to select the Move menu item, then press any arrow key, and finally you can use the mouse to move the window around.
Yes, quite kludgy, but this has worked on every version of Windows for decades.
The PowerToys team decided to take over Alt+Space for their own Mac-style launcher, without even warning you at install time that they are disabling a fundamental Windows keyboard shortcut.
This caused me loss of data when I tried to use that trick for a window that got stuck offscreen. I forgot that I'd installed PowerToys a while back, and Alt+Space didn't work to rescue my window!
There have been multiple threads and GitHub issues raised on this, but the PowerToys team has seemed deaf to the problem. They closed one of the issues with a comment like "our metrics show that very few people use Alt+Space for its old purpose, so we felt OK about reassigning it."
I was like, "Your m-----f---ing metrics told you that? Your metrics just caused me loss of data! Do I need to go get Raymond Chen to explain to you the value of backward compatibility?" But I didn't post that, as there is no hope of getting through to people who think metrics should tell them what to do.
Let's say there are a billion Windows users. And only a tenth of one percent know about Alt+Space to open the system menu. No big deal, that's only a million users you have just inconvenienced or caused to lose data.
Please forgive the rant, but I just don't understand that line of thinking.