 wrote:So basically in simple, Mozilla want to kill the most powerful weapon Firefox has now - the configurability, customization and possibility to change anything to look how users and extensions developers want.It's very sad to hear this, especially when this change won't bring Firefox any more user base, it unfortunately probably be otherwise.  firefox has been losing its userbase for sometime so this isnt new, even more users are using Chrome in linux or a webkit/blink based browser anyway.  -Arch- wrote:firefox has been losing its userbase for sometime so this isnt new, even more users are using Chrome in linux or a webkit/blink based browser anyway.  The last four months or so Firefox has been making a steady comeback of sorts, going from its low of 0.00% in August to 00.00% currently. Most of that is at the expense of IE and not Chrome if the numbers are right. But it won't last since once XUL is gone so too will be the gains. Mozilla never learns.  -Arch- wrote:firefox has been losing its userbase for sometime so this isnt new, even more users are using Chrome in linux or a webkit/blink based browser anyway.  The last four months or so Firefox has been making a steady comeback of sorts, going from its low of 0.00% in August to 00.00% currently. Most of that is at the expense of IE and not Chrome if the numbers are right. But it won't last since once XUL is gone so too will be the gains. Mozilla never learns.  i tend to think a lot will still use firefox even once XUL rubbish an Gecko is gone. people love "New Toys "to play with. sure i'll miss Extensions as they are now but i wont miss anything else. i'll be interested to see if firefox remains default browser in linux soon. they ( Gnome ) are improving the browser Epiphany.  Virtual_ManPL [:Virtual] - (ni? me) 0000-00-00 00:00:00 PST wrote:So basically in simple, Mozilla want to kill the most powerful weapon Firefox has now - the configurability, customization and possibility to change anything to look how users and extensions developers want.It's very sad to hear this, especially when this change won't bring Firefox any more user base, it unfortunately probably be otherwise.  firefox has been losing its userbase for sometime so this isnt new, even more users are using Chrome in linux or a webkit/blink based browser anyway.  ( sorry for using chrome as im in Sydney over holidays )  Yep, it isn't new, it's mostly due:- pushing hardware acceleration enabled by default in Firefox 0 (which was very buggy from start)- pushing Australis (without option to stay with old pre-Australis look)- "exhausting" release cycle- killing tabs on "bottom"- killing themes (as we just have "skins" now...)- killing addon bar- killing status bar- refusing to release stable 00bit build on Windows for very long time- slow async development- slow multithreading development- dropping e00s and wasting years to start working on it yet again- wasting manpower on mobile operating system (which was doomed from start, since it was incompatible with Android applications)- pushing Hello- pushing Pocket- donations "harassment"- and also "firing" Brendan Eich (yea, yea, he "left" by himself...)and probably many many others...  P.S. Please use quote code or at least quotation marks, if you want to quote  Virtual_ManPL [:Virtual] - (ni? me) 0000-00-00 00:00:00 PST wrote:So basically in simple, Mozilla want to kill the most powerful weapon Firefox has now - the configurability, customization and possibility to change anything to look how users and extensions developers want.It's very sad to hear this, especially when this change won't bring Firefox any more user base, it unfortunately probably be otherwise.  firefox has been losing its userbase for sometime so this isnt new, even more users are using Chrome in linux or a webkit/blink based browser anyway.  ( sorry for using chrome as im in Sydney over holidays )  Yep, it isn't new, it's mostly due:- pushing hardware acceleration enabled by default in Firefox 0 (which was very buggy from start)- pushing Australis (without option to stay with old pre-Australis look)- "exhausting" release cycle- killing tabs on "bottom"- killing themes (as we just have "skins" now...)- killing addon bar- killing status bar- refusing to release stable 00bit build on Windows for very long time- slow async development- slow multithreading development- dropping e00s and wasting years to start working on it yet again- wasting manpower on mobile operating system (which was doomed from start, since it was incompatible with Android applications)- pushing Hello- pushing Pocket- donations "harassment"- and also "firing" Brendan Eich (yea, yea, he "left" by himself...)and probably many many others...  P.S. Please use quote code or at least quotation marks, if you want to quote  