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Re:Firefox Address Bar Tips by matheusmoreira on Monday July 10, 2023 @11:48AM (#36668110)
Firefox is increasingly unfriendly to power users. Wouldn't surprise me if they got rid of this feature someday because they have statistics showing few people use it.
Re:Firefox Address Bar Tips by marcosdumay on Monday July 10, 2023 @12:24PM (#36668627)
Firefox is trending into the unfriendliness of Chrome and the other mainstream browsers.

That irritating and horrible; but until they follow that trend to conclusion, it's not a reason to switch at all.

Re:Firefox Address Bar Tips by HumblyTossed on Monday July 10, 2023 @12:35PM (#36668817)
Switching will accelerate this.
Re:Firefox Address Bar Tips by sbjs on Monday July 10, 2023 @01:16PM (#36669482)
And rightfully so. Why maintain a feature for a small minority? Let them fork and maintain it themselves.
Re:Firefox Address Bar Tips by WastingMyTime89 on Monday July 10, 2023 @01:41PM (#36669966)
The danger of this is obvious.

Everyone is there for a different minority used feature. By caring only about the feature used by the majority, you are actually satisfying no one.

That’s why product managers use persona on top of metrics. Nice products have niche features and some kind of personality. You don’t want to overfocus on them but stripping them all is a losing move.

Re:Firefox Address Bar Tips by IIsi50MHz on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @06:16PM (#36687994)
WordPerfect and Quattro Pro (now WordPerfect Suite, I think) seem to persist due catering to special needs of law firms. Catering to some niche users can keep you afloat despite an otherwise market-dominant competitor.
Re:Firefox Address Bar Tips by zo1 on Monday July 10, 2023 @01:52PM (#36670207)
"WTF" is there to maintain in the feature anyways? If it's such a bloated mess that this kind of small feature causes maintenance issues and a lot of effort to include in subsequent releases, then maybe it is time for Firefox to fail.

Sigh, I've been using Firefox for almost 2 decades, and this is the first I've heard of this feature.

Re:Firefox Address Bar Tips by mcpackieh on Monday July 10, 2023 @02:19PM (#36670700)
Firefox would have no users at all if Mozilla abandon us nerds and power users who all rely a slightly different set of Firefox's obscure features. If Mozilla were smart, they would embrace us instead of wishing we were more like normal users (if we were, we'd be using chrome already!)
Re:Firefox Address Bar Tips by ehnto on Monday July 10, 2023 @10:59PM (#36675922)
You risk driving away your evangelists for one.

If you only focus on the most popular features you eventually narrow your product to one feature, so obviously there is a balance in there somewhere between focus and utility as well. Identifying why people use your product is as important as knowing what they use. Chrome does all the things I actually use from Firefox, but I use Firefox because when I ever need slightly more hackability it is there for me. That is at best, a once a year occurance.

Re:Firefox Address Bar Tips by chaxor on Monday July 10, 2023 @09:58PM (#36675585)
Power users are firefox's main demographic.

I see this so much so, it's to the point that If I see you're using something else, I assume you're not a developer, and you're likely not a power user.

Re:Firefox Address Bar Tips by chii on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @06:08AM (#36678776)
i do feel chrome devtools is just edges out firefox's