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Re:The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward by antisthenes on Friday January 21, 2022 @05:19AM (#30021575)
> Maybe they should just run with being the browser for power users, with all kinds of interesting niche features and customization.

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.

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Re:The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward by CRConrad on Friday January 21, 2022 @05:12PM (#30030637)
> 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.

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