Re: Updates changing defaults, refusing themes, killing extensions, etc

On 01/26/2021 11:07 AM, Wolf K wrote:
> A thread in the mozilla.firefox NG asserts that 85.x, like 78.x, changes
> the Update default to Automatic. Actually, automatic update has been the
> default for FF and TB for some time now. But it grates when an update to
> change a default from the user's preference.
>
> I eliminated TB 78.x and installed 68.12.0, the last one for which my
> fave extensions still work. Even so, it won't accept themes, which
> Mozilla in its infinite wisdom has decided should not be allowed any
> more. Well, Mozilla should at least offer infinitely variable colours
> for the standard theme.
>
> But the main problem is the extensions. IMO, the functionality of most
> of them should be included as options in TB and FF. I know that most
> people will use the software as it comes, but when tens of thousands of
> people install extensions focussed on the same functionality (eg,
> control over fonts in TB's folder pane, etc), then surely that should
> tell the devs that there's real need for that functionality.
>
> I see that FF has been losing to Chrome. I don't think that's entirely
> the result of Mozilla ignoring users' plaintive pleas for improvements.
> The power of FF has always been customisation. The latest versions
> reduce that power. So what's the difference between FF and Chrome or
> Edge? Not much any more. Hence not much incentive for switching to or
> keeping FF.

My reasons are probably entirely personal.  I can't make chrome look 
like I want to -- fonts, colors, borders, sizes, etc.  I can't change 
the size of the window except to the choices given by an extension that 
allows size-changing.  I can have a GOOD vertical tab bar with Firefox 
-- the ones offered by chrome are pitiful.

OTOH, I can play most videos with chrome (Firefox burps on quite a few) 
and I can ALWAYS do captchas/recaptchas -- which are iffy with Firefox, 
sometimes making them invisible.  A lot of javascript things work with 
Chrome that don't work with Firefox.

I use both, but I resent having to use Chrome.

-- 
Cheers, Bev
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