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ihateolives | 2 years ago

Ever since Firefox borked their tabs I've given up on it as my default browser. Every now and then I open it up for testing and when I still see buttons instead of tabs I make a mental note of trying again in half a year or so. Light theme is especially insulting with white buttons on light-light gray. It even doesn't repsect Windows' system theme settings, because in Windows you can have apps keep light theme but apply colors to taskbar, Start menu and title bars. Edge gets it, Chrome doesn't, but at least there's enough contrast, Firefox completely misses the mark.

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FirmwareBurner|2 years ago

I use Firefox as my alternate browser. And whenever I fire it up it needs first to get in my way and interrupt me to tell me about the new changes and features it has implemented since the last time I opened it like Pocket, VPN, etc.

God, stop it, just let me start browsing what I came here for, stop imitating Microsoft and their dark patterns of shoving Office 365 and Gamepass in your face between updates. Go and advertise your features to people who don't yet have Firefox installed, but I'm already your "customer", so stop bugging me.

This is why I'm mainly on Chrome. It may be inferior and spying on me but it never gets in my way.

pprotas|2 years ago

Chrome automatically opens up a tab with an ad for their new features after every automatic update. Isn’t that kind of the same thing?

yoavm|2 years ago

I feel exactly this way, but about Chrome. I suspect it's just bias - I only open Chrome once a week or so so this screen is very annoying. Firefox is always open so I don't even recall seeing anything like that.

hobs|2 years ago

Damn that new tab must pop up for me like... once a month! What a distraction! I guess giving all my data to Google is probably worth it.