Not a new article (from 2022), but quite interesting.
Mozilla is too bad no more. It became some kind of weird AI company. Believe me, Firefox is not the future anymore. Try to go to a fork asap, now you still can.
Proton was such a step in the wrong direction
I miss 3.5, and I hate the current Chrome-lite design. I want tabs underneath my address bar.
You can still do this in Waterfox, FYI.
I’ve not used Firefox in years (just various forks), specifically because of Mozilla’s insistence on changing the UI and not allowing you to change it back.
What does “abstraction” mean in this context
My Firefox chrome never looked much like any of those. I remember when the “classic” theme came along in 2011 and everyone praised it for being more compact and efficient, I was already long-accustomed to an even more compact layout that takes up very little vertical space and is still very similar to how I have it set up today.
From a user’s point of view customisation of the UI has gotten slightly more difficult over the years, but it’s still not that much trouble and so far it’s always been worth the effort.
