Firefox 28

[ninaholic37]

I don't know about everyone, but one of the reasons I've stayed with FF over the years is that if they decided to change the UI, I could change it back through their customisation features (most of the time - I try to avoid third party add-ons where possible because they can result in the program malfunctioning). However, with changes in FF 26 and 28 (re: 28 - judging by what they've done with 26), they're moving away from that and copying Chrome and enforcing those changes. I don't like how Chrome looks and works, I don't think it is intuitive.

I said I'd go with Seamonkey, but either it can't do what I want in terms of cookie storage, or it's not that apparent, but I've completed changing over to Pale Moon (though admittedly I'm worried about the fact that Pale Moon says that it is version 24).

While I acknowledge that people don't like change 'full stop', I think such people (including myself), they perceive it as "change for the sake of change" (and sometimes their reaction might be "dislike for the sake of dislike of change"), like the morons who wrote things like "Apple has to change the look of iOS in order to "keep up"... why? It looked fine, they've changed the colour scheme now... great.), and UI changes are rarely *necessary*.

In the case of the newer download manager that FF 26 now forces the use of, why do I have to start either using keyboard shortcuts or clicking in two different places to bring up the downloads window when it appeared automatically before, I don't perceive this as an improvement, and someone would have to try quite hard to convince me that it would actually help (even in "the long run") when it is actually hindering my productivity.

When software makers forget how to innovate, they copy competitors instead. It's just moronic.

IMO, the UI should only change (or come up with a system for opting into a UI change without having to avoid security updates), when it actually results in a productivity improvement, not because of some fashion-season-thing that serves no useful purpose as far as the end user is concerned.

Completely agree.

 

[jobz]

List of extensions to restore to what imo is not broken:

Back/forward dropmarker
Download Statusbar
Enter Selects
Hide Menubar
Menu Editor
Send Link in context menu
Theme Font & Size Changer
Firefox 3 theme for Firefox 4+

Each ff update breaks one extension or another. Some are abandoned because I guess developers are sick of catering to mozilla's whims. Death by a thousand cuts.

 

[PliotronX]

While I acknowledge that people don't like change 'full stop', I think such people (including myself), they perceive it as "change for the sake of change" (and sometimes their reaction might be "dislike for the sake of dislike of change"), like the morons who wrote things like "Microsoft has to change the look of Windows in order to "keep up"... why? It looked fine, they've changed the colour scheme now... great.), and UI changes are rarely *necessary*.

Point works with 8 too.. good post, change for changes sake...

 

[Morbus]

Firefox has been slowly turning itself into a miserable pile of gooey shit for years now. I once was part of the SUMO team (that's Mozilla's support) and dropped off because Mozilla quite obvious couldn't care less about us and the hard work that we did. They don't care about disrupting their users' workflow, they just care about stuff I can't even begin to understand, and neither can many people who are discontent with these stupid changes.

I will be sticking with version 24 for the foreseeable future and only updating after testing the new version out on a different profile, as to not fuck up my shit with their idiotic ideas of progress. I couldn't care less for security updates, I have AdBlock and NoScript and can reinstall windows whenever I want, I don't think I have much to fear from browsing the sites I browse.

Mozilla is officially crap, dogshit, horse manure, excrement and a bunch of self-righteous dicks who might as well throw themselves off a bridge for all I care.

I mean this personally too. Fuck you Mozilla, fuck you up the ass.

 

[Steltek]

The Classic Theme Restorer addon seems to work well with the current Australis Nightly releases.

 

[Revolution 11]

Just for the record, Pale Moon is on version 24 but that doesn't mean the creator is ignoring important security fixes. It just means Pale Moon and Firefox are not tightly aligned as they once were. For the better, I think.

I will miss Mozilla's position as a innovator in browsing. They were the force that pushed Internet Explorer out of its monopoly power and came up with/popularized a lot of features (tabs, restore session, etc). But their sun has set and I don't see another browser filling the shoes.

Pale Moon is beautiful but one guy can't do everything forever.

 

[Doomer]

Norton is nagware. I can't stand the constant attention it requires.

 

[nemesismk2]

Norton is nagware. I can't stand the constant attention it requires.

I used to use Norton and agree that it is nagware