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[-] [email protected] 41 points 5 days ago

Pretty accurate except for "we must focus on the browser", I've never seen/heard them doing that.

I still remember when they cancelled vertical tabs after successful testing.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

From their announcement about ending Pocket and FakeSpot:

we’re looking ahead to focusing on new Firefox features that people need most.

Far be it from me to say they act upon these statements, but I do see them made.

Edit: yay more AI

This shift allows us to shape the next era of the internet – with tools like vertical tabs, smart search and more AI-powered features on the way.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

They did? I still have it enabled and it works. If I get an update that removes this, mozilla can go shit themselves

[-] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

Many years ago they had an offical extension called "Tab Center", it had been in "labs" for some time. When it finished testing (it worked well), Mozilla decided to drop it instead of deploying it in Firefox. It wasn't even in low priority.

It took them many years and they finally implemented vertical tabs in 2024.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

I remember using an extension for that in like 2008 or something.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

And I remember them disabling the features that extension required to function.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

That was the move to Firefox 3.0, wasn't it? Back when major Firefox releases were actually major and not just minor changes to a few tertiary features.

I'm pretty sure that upgrade killed more addons than every update since then combined. It took years for some of them to return.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

When was that? I only ask because Firefox has vertical tabs now.

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