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 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 still flush with cash but chooses to spend the money in ways that aren't related to the browser itself. Making firefox more chrome like isn't going to attract new users, and at the same time removes the incentives to run Firefox at all, given chromium-based browsers these days.
So I dunno. I want to keep using firefox. I want to keep customizing it with userContent to get rid of that silly expanding URL box, to put tabs back under the buttons, and to make it look more like other Mate desktop applications. I actually use the menu bar (yes I realize the hamburger menu has everything in it if I dig deeper). I like the addons I use. But if something came along that was based on Chromium that let me do these things I'd have no problem switching when firefox stop working for me. Sure I could switch now, but like I say, I still like firefox.
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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 chr
Re:userContent.css (Score:2)
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 still flush with cash but chooses to spend the money in ways that aren't related to the browser itself. Making firefox more chrome like isn't going to attract new users, and at the same time removes the incentives to run Firefox at all, given chromium-based browsers these days.
So I dunno. I want to keep using firefox. I want to keep customizing it with userContent to get rid of that silly expanding URL box, to put tabs back under the buttons, and to make it look more like other Mate desktop applications. I actually use the menu bar (yes I realize the hamburger menu has everything in it if I dig deeper). I like the addons I use. But if something came along that was based on Chromium that let me do these things I'd have no problem switching when firefox stop working for me. Sure I could switch now, but like I say, I still like firefox.