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Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer (treeherder.mozilla.org)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.ml
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[–] 33 points 3 years ago (5 children)

I use firefox and I like it but they have been dumbfying their UI and nagging users to use pockets.

Why on earth would I need to go to about window to update? Also, I don’t know where to find extensions so I just choose addons then manually go to extensions.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Hm, where do they nag? I don't know what Pockets is and haven't seen anything about it.
    I also never manually update Firefox, I just restart when it tells me it's downloaded an update.

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  • [+] -6 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Every other update would show an ad to use it. Also, you cannot remove it afaik.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago

    Also, you cannot remove it afaik.

    Remove it where? If its the toolbar, you can just remove it from the Customize Toolbar menu. If it is the home/new tab page, you can remove it by clicking the settings gear at the top right of that page and disable the option (or from the main brwoser settings area). If you use Firefox Account syncing (or just sync your Firefox profile folder via other means) then that option persists across different devices accordingly too. This page explains how to disable any Pocket integration, including the ones that I've mentioned here, along with even the "Save to Pocket" menu entry that comes up when right clicking a link.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Going to the about window to check for updates is a decades old thing among thousands of different software(it's the same in Edge, Chrome, Opera(old and new), etc)

    Clicking on the "Add-ons and Themes" literally takes you straight to the extension tab(extensions are add-ons).

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  • [–] -4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    First of all, I know other browsers keep update in about page, however, this is why I don't use them. It wasn't used to be in a burger menu tho.

    Second, add-ons and theme isn't saying exactly "extensions". Also, it would take you to the last tab which is by default plug-ins. try it.

    I like Firefox and I'd support the developers but they should stick to their roots to keep their current user base.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Second, add-ons and theme isn’t saying exactly “extensions”. Also, it would take you to the last tab which is by default plug-ins. try it.

    You can click the Extensions toolbar icon that was added by default for everyone a bit ago, and at the bottom of the list of your extensions it has a "Manage Extensions" option (it is actually pinned to the bottom of the visible menu, so even if you have enough extensions that it "overflows" into a scroll menu, the Manage Extensions button is always visible). That page lets you remove / configure any currently installed extensions, and has a search bar for the Extensions store as well.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yup, the new FF UI is unbearable. And it was the last straw (among other things) that convinced me that it was time to switch to something else (after 20 years).

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah i can't stand it either, stayed on the old UI for 18 months or so until sites started breaking. I'm using this mod to make it work like the old UI and it's exactly the same, plus you only need to setup once updates haven't broken it for me so far. https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    Thanks, I already knew about the "unfuck" fix made by Black. Too late for me, anyway. I have realized that Mozilla doesn't care about feedbak or users' opinion (or the users at all...), so I don't feel like supporting them anymore.

    By the way, the fix is fine. But it is a matter of principle: people shouldn't have to waste their time unfucking Mozilla's fuckups and users shouldn't have to waste their time trying to make a browser usable. So, congrats, Moz Corp, you've managed to lose an hardcore user.

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