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

My bloviated meandering follows what Wolf K graced us with on 2/13/2021 
10:45 AM:
> 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 have to take a slight exception to that. If they'd add all of the 
functionality of TabsMixPlus (TMP), I'd make the latest Fx my default 
browser instead of limping along with 59.2esr, The Last Airbender of 
productive Fx browsers.

Note: I'd even accept it if they only made its features an add-on; 
although, intrinsic would be my preference.

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