Are you serious? Maybe the majority of users don't have userContent.css customizations. But a significant minority do. And consider who evangelizes firefox. You guessed it. It's the power users. Take that away and there's very little reason for any user to pick Firefox over Chrome. Mozilla is losing ground and they can't figure out why and your post shows what the problem is. If Mozilla goes out of their way to alienate users like me (and the GP), they're going to slide into irrelevance.
If Mozilla goes out of their way to alienate users like me (and the GP), they're going to slide into irrelevance.
Take that away and there's very little reason for any user to pick Firefox over Chrome.
Welp, then just go use Chrome and hasten the inevitable, fork your own browser, or heck just head over to IcyPaleWeaselMoon with it's whooping 0.02%, JS engine straight from 2006, tab instance security that is non-existent, and tasty single-threaded browser (mmmm, loving it when all my webpages share the same memory space)! The endless whining from folks who contribute zilch towards a code base they continually hate on gets old fast.
But a significant minority do.
AKA, nobody.
And consider who evangelizes firefox.
Clearly not because all I ever hear from the "power users" is
Chrome is running internet police mode for a while already. In latest build they blocked *.eml downloads or something that looks like scripted downloader in other webmail. Normal user would be unable to do anything about it as even whitelisting website does not disable that block.
> AKA, nobody. Hello from nobody. userContent.css is the best option for dealing with brain dead web designers who think that web users should be unable to copy any website text. Even if I need t
The problem is that all these things cost time and money to maintain. Mozilla is open source so if someone wanted to work for free maintaining them I'm sure Mozilla would listen, but nobody does.
Besides, what are power users going to do? Switch to a Chrome based browser?
I'd count myself as a power user, and I'm switching back to Firefox as soon as they fix one blocking bug on the Android version. The enhanced privacy protection and blocking functions alone are worth it.
There has NEVER been a "significant minority" using userContent.css. Never. I'm sure there is the odd person who uses it, maybe to override some annoying font or for their own needs but that's it. That doesn't mean it should be removed because it should be trivial to implement and test ("if userContentFile.exists() { loadCSS(userContentFile); }" but perspective.
On any post about firefox people complain it (a) has too many features (b) has too few (c) is too much like chrome (d) is not enough like chrome (e) looks terrible (f) visual changes are evil.
It's the browser nerds apparently love to hate now.
Thing is what all of the complaints seem to amount to is "Firefox is just like chrome (except with better extensions, no snooping by google) so I'm just going to use chrome".
But you do you. Your computer your choice. If Firefox is too much like chrome, go switch to chr
Yes Firefox does have features that seem to be rather silly or useless. And they have been removing features at a rapid rate. Currently Firefox is still useful to me and has features I rely on and desire. As those get eliminated, like userContent.css, then my reason for using firefox diminishes considerably. I'm glad Firefox is here now and I hope they not only listen to average users, but the users like me who uses these features.
I realize a browser costs money to make, but it also seems like Mozilla is
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Mozilla can just fuck right off. They're pulling this shit at the same time they're planning on removing userContent.css support.
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OMG what are you and, well literally no-one else, going to do that happens?
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Are you serious? Maybe the majority of users don't have userContent.css customizations. But a significant minority do. And consider who evangelizes firefox. You guessed it. It's the power users. Take that away and there's very little reason for any user to pick Firefox over Chrome. Mozilla is losing ground and they can't figure out why and your post shows what the problem is. If Mozilla goes out of their way to alienate users like me (and the GP), they're going to slide into irrelevance.
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Pfft. If users like you were as powerful as you thought nearly half the news stories on Slashdot would disappear.
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If Mozilla goes out of their way to alienate users like me (and the GP), they're going to slide into irrelevance.
Take that away and there's very little reason for any user to pick Firefox over Chrome.
Welp, then just go use Chrome and hasten the inevitable, fork your own browser, or heck just head over to IcyPaleWeaselMoon with it's whooping 0.02%, JS engine straight from 2006, tab instance security that is non-existent, and tasty single-threaded browser (mmmm, loving it when all my webpages share the same memory space)! The endless whining from folks who contribute zilch towards a code base they continually hate on gets old fast.
But a significant minority do.
AKA, nobody.
And consider who evangelizes firefox.
Clearly not because all I ever hear from the "power users" is
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> Welp, then just go use Chrome
Chrome is running internet police mode for a while already. In latest build they blocked *.eml downloads or something that looks like scripted downloader in other webmail. Normal user would be unable to do anything about it as even whitelisting website does not disable that block.
> AKA, nobody.
Hello from nobody. userContent.css is the best option for dealing with brain dead web designers who think that web users should be unable to copy any website text. Even if I need t
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The problem is that all these things cost time and money to maintain. Mozilla is open source so if someone wanted to work for free maintaining them I'm sure Mozilla would listen, but nobody does.
Besides, what are power users going to do? Switch to a Chrome based browser?
I'd count myself as a power user, and I'm switching back to Firefox as soon as they fix one blocking bug on the Android version. The enhanced privacy protection and blocking functions alone are worth it.
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On any post about firefox people complain it (a) has too many features (b) has too few (c) is too much like chrome (d) is not enough like chrome (e) looks terrible (f) visual changes are evil.
It's the browser nerds apparently love to hate now.
Thing is what all of the complaints seem to amount to is "Firefox is just like chrome (except with better extensions, no snooping by google) so I'm just going to use chrome".
But you do you. Your computer your choice. If Firefox is too much like chrome, go switch to chr
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Yes Firefox does have features that seem to be rather silly or useless. And they have been removing features at a rapid rate. Currently Firefox is still useful to me and has features I rely on and desire. As those get eliminated, like userContent.css, then my reason for using firefox diminishes considerably. I'm glad Firefox is here now and I hope they not only listen to average users, but the users like me who uses these features.
I realize a browser costs money to make, but it also seems like Mozilla is