Re: Firefox keeps changing how to navigate tabs with each update

On 2021-02-13 09:58, WaltS48 wrote:
> On 2/13/21 9:37 AM, BumbleBeing wrote:
>> It's really annoying to me that Firefox keeps changing how I navigate 
>> tabs. I update Firefox and every time I have to get used to a 
>> different "tab-system". It's freaking annoying. I also have no way of 
>> customising any of this.
>>
>> Mozilla please use your energy to make Firefox better and don't mess 
>> with parts of the program that function just fine (or give us some 
>> options to manage these ourselves)
>>
> 
> They are making it better with the new Proton design refresh. 😱

"Better" by whose standards?

> <https://news.softpedia.com/news/firefox-proton-redesign-brings-rounded-tabs-here-s-what-they-look-like-532009.shtml> 

"As you probably know already, rounded corners seem to become the next 
big thing in software, with Microsoft itself also working on bringing 
this design refresh to Windows"

"Next big thing"????? The writer(s) is (are) obviously too young to know 
what's new and what is some old thing revived.

> <https://www.ghacks.net/2021/02/04/firefox-top-sites-to-be-renamed-to-shortcuts-new-design-launches-in-nightly/> 

As long as they leave the option to turn off "top sites". One of the 
most annoying things about most (maybe all, I haven't tested them all) 
current browsers is how the default "home page" serves up all kinds of 
irrelevant crap.

> <https://www.ghacks.net/2021/02/10/another-glimpse-at-firefoxs-upcoming-proton-design-refresh-the-new-menu/> 

[Sarcastic draft response snipped]]

I'm with OP. There is absolutely no need to change anything about how 
tabs _work_. It's ok to fiddle with how they _look_, as long as the user 
gets to to choose. And if devs want to add/change some tab 
functionality, the least they could do is make it user's choice.

That goes for the GUI in general: Do Not Change How It Works.

I don't care how they change the looks, as long as any changes to 
functionality are under user control.

[snipped draft of rude rant about devs, it was satisfying enough to just 
write it. Hah!]

Best,

-- 
Wolf K
"You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is 
right." Lyndon B. Johnson
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