[Mozilla Enterprise] (no subject)

[Timo Pietilä]

On 18.8.2019 18.58, Paul Kosinski via Enterprise wrote:
> As a long-time Firefox user, I went to ESR because I prefer stability to
> new features, and I especially don't like gratuitous changes to the User
> Interface. The move to Tabs on Top was ugly: I think Google started it
> so that users would view the Web (and hence Google) as their computing
> environment, rather than Windows et al. But at least Classic Theme
> Restorer could fix that.

Two things that have prevented me to change to google chrome are ability 
to restore tabs on bottom and bookmark sidebar which chrome doesn't have.

As for ESR I wouldn't mind if there were two releases / year if you have 
half a year overlap between versions so that you can switch when FF is 
mature and actually ready for corporate use.

Like the Bug 1571033 that still isn't fixed and which is total 
showstopper. It is getting awfully close to forced upgrade because FF60 
is ending support, and that bug would force us to either not set default 
homepage (not really an option), block FF use until it is fixed (which 
means all the future browser users would switch to other browsers which 
in turn would lead to FF being dead to them for all eternity) or drop 
corporate support of FF completely and let admin users to use FF at 
their own risk as it is which again would kill FF for users.

Users use familiar browser at home, if they can't use same browser at 
work they switch their home browser to match their work browser. It 
really doesn't work other way around. Not properly supporting corporates 
will kill FF because frankly there isn't much competitive edge on FF 
anymore. For example Microsoft pages work better in Chrome than they do 
in FF. FF dying isn't something I would like to see since I have been 
using FF before it was FF.

Timo Pietilä