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The only UX/UI request I have for Firefox: Stop changing it. Don't add any more useless tweaks or adware or bundled services.

Its UX "history" made it plummet from the top browser at one point to a forgotten has-been. These tweaks were not successes or celebrations, they were the death by a thousand cuts.

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paulryanrogers|3 years ago

> Its UX "history" made it plummet from the top browser at one point to a forgotten has-been.

My guess is the rise and marketing of Chrome and its offspring had more to do with Firefox's decline than anything Mozilla has done.

grumbel|3 years ago

Firefox would still have declined, that's kind of unavoidable with Google owning Android, but Mozilla wasn't helping here. Turning Firfox into a lame Chrome-clone by removing everything that made it unique in the first place just ensured that there was no more need to bother with Firefox. Loading the browser up with all kind of telemetry, cloud nonsense and ads also removed any desire to ever bother with it again.

I still think there is plenty of room for a privacy respecting browser in the market, but Mozilla hasn't even been trying to fill that niche in years and still claiming to do so just makes them look like untrustworthy liar.

antisthenes|3 years ago

While that's true, constant UI changing certainly didn't help retain what little market share it already had.

It made the browser compete with itself, and pushed people into alternatives. After all, if you're going to learn a new UI, why not try another browser altogether?

eternityforest|3 years ago

Mozzila turned itself into a privacy browser, not a browser with privacy.

Google added things like WebUSB, Bluetooth, all kinds of web app APIs Mozilla rejected because of tracking risk, etc.

Mozzila killed their coolest features like FlyWeb.

They just haven't kept up with Chrome, and their vision is way too "privacy at all costs" rather than allowing users to decide. They don't seem to share in the modern idea of web apps having full native parity.

svnpenn|3 years ago

> web apps having full native parity

What an awful idea that is.

leadingthenet|3 years ago

> They just haven't kept up with Chrome, and their vision is way too "privacy at all costs" rather than allowing users to decide. They don't seem to share in the modern idea of web apps having full native parity.

Those are literally the last things keeping me with Firefox.