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On 2/28/2021 1:29 PM, Thane K. Sherrington wrote<br>
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Mike, my complaint (and the complaint I get from my clients) is
the lack of Simplify Printing. I get that it's "coming soon"
but that's not the way to roll out a brand new printing system.
Finish it, then roll it out. The regular complaints I get about
Firefox changes is "too many changes to UI" and "they removed
feature X". It's great to get feature X back later, but by the
time that happens, you will have lost a percentage of your users,
and they may not come back.<br>
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For Firefox to succeed it needs three things - more and more speed
(nobody likes waiting) and compatibility with websites (I'm
hearing more and more about "this site doesn't work in Firefox"
from clients), and more security/privacy (the raison d'être of
Firefox. <br>
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It sort of seems like Firefox is making UI changes for the sake of
making changes. Changing the UI creates friction which creates
frustration among end-users. UI changes should be very few and
far between. The new printing system looks prettier than the old
one, but it's less functional, and it requires relearning. <br>
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Sorry to gripe, but I'm a massive Firefox fan and I push it to all
my clients. Recently, I'm getting more and more push back for the
above reasons.<br>
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At the very least, when you make a UI change like this that is
missing features in it's initial release, put a very obvious
button that says "Want the old version back? Click Here."<br>
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I have to say, a huge, HUGE +100 to all of the above.<br>
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I've been using Firefox since before version 1.0. Ever since the
loss of XUL Addons, I've been casually researching alternatives,
but...<br>
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For all of the above reasons, I recently switched my default browser
to Brave, and am preparing to start switching all of my clients,
friends and family to it as well.<br>
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The actual drivers that triggered my decision to act was, first, the
compatibility problems. More and more websites/pages just simply
wouldn't load. Restarting Firefox would fix it every time - for a
while, then it started again. The second is the garbage Identity
Politics Mozilla is pushing now.<br>
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For me, the decision to switch was the end of an era.<br>
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Most importantly, like Thane said, I won't be coming back... unless
Mozilla does something spectacular to make me give it another look -
like, opening up the UI to Addons at the same or similar level that
XUL allowed.<br>
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For now, though, I'm done.<br>
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