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.
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 chrome, have worse extensions and be snooped on by google. Be my guest.
they're going to slide into irrelevance.
They're most likely going to slide into irrelevance anyway. You've got Firefox against Apple/Google/Microsoft on the desktop and an even more unassailable Firefox vs Apple/Google on mobile. None of those browsers is definitively superior to Firefox, and some, especially Safari across the board and in many aspects Chrome are measurably inferior, but those companies are using dominance in other areas to push their products.
On the desktop they're faced with Apple and Microsoft who bundle and Google who push Chrome on the world's largest advertising network and keep breaking other browsers on their pages which are some of the most popular in the entire world. On mobile, not only do Apple bundle but firefox in any meaningful manner is banned from iOS, and Chrome is aggressively bundled.
I'm not going to defend the current Mozilla management, but realistically, isn't not any worse than google or Microsoft management, just much more visible. Visible mediocre management notwithstanding, they are still producing arguably the best browser with a fraction of the resources and they aren't spying on you.
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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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 chrome, have worse extensions and be snooped on by google. Be my guest.
they're going to slide into irrelevance.
They're most likely going to slide into irrelevance anyway. You've got Firefox against Apple/Google/Microsoft on the desktop and an even more unassailable Firefox vs Apple/Google on mobile. None of those browsers is definitively superior to Firefox, and some, especially Safari across the board and in many aspects Chrome are measurably inferior, but those companies are using dominance in other areas to push their products.
On the desktop they're faced with Apple and Microsoft who bundle and Google who push Chrome on the world's largest advertising network and keep breaking other browsers on their pages which are some of the most popular in the entire world. On mobile, not only do Apple bundle but firefox in any meaningful manner is banned from iOS, and Chrome is aggressively bundled.
I'm not going to defend the current Mozilla management, but realistically, isn't not any worse than google or Microsoft management, just much more visible. Visible mediocre management notwithstanding, they are still producing arguably the best browser with a fraction of the resources and they aren't spying on you.
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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