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

On 2/13/21 1:45 PM, Wolf K wrote:
> 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?
> 

I thought I used the screaming in fear emoji.

>> <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.
> 

I did not know that rounded corners are the next big thing.

I do recall the uproar when they were changed to square.

Just added the "browser.proton.tabs.enabled" preference to my Nightly 
and they don't even connect to the toolbar now.

>> <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.
> 

I rarely use the new tab page and think I have it set to blank.

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