Firefox joins the insanity

This topic was created by GreyWolf .

[GreyWolf]

Firefox joins the insanity

There's a brain-eating paradigm loose on the streets - the idea that your UI has to be the same on your desktop, your laptop, your tabet, and your phone. So the designers either make the icons big enough for touch (and space-wasteful for mouse use) or too small to touch so they make you move your hands from mouse to keyboard and back (which James Martin condemned 40 years ago). We've seen Windows Metro and Ubuntu Unity.

Now - wait for it - comes Firefox Atlantis Preview and discussion at Daily WTF

One look at this and I've turned off Firefox's auto update on all my computers.

Test question for the alert student: what does the "fairy cake" icon do?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Firefox joins the insanity

Mine is already locked at 17 (or 17000 or whatever it is) and the way this is going, there is no way I'm unlocking it.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Firefox joins the insanity

It must be OK because, as one of the commenters on the discussion said, the changes are "... proposed by UX specialists".

UX Specialists? That explains a lot. I'm minded to conclude that these 'UX Specialists' are re-purposed Management Consultants. Same effect.

[Hungry Sean]

Re: Firefox joins the insanity

stopped using firefox when they went all awesome-bar on me.

Seems like all browsers suck now and want to send your url entry to google as a search while you type, or think they are smart and automagically bung in a www or .com when you're travelling to an internal host. I just want a browser that looks like firefox circa 2005, but has decent privacy/security controls and doesn't leak memory like a sieve. Is that so much to ask?

[Not That Andrew]

So help me God, if they let loose a "UX expert" on Seamonkey, I will fly to California and go full postal on those retards at Mozilla

[Quinch]

Nice to see a fellow Seamonkey user - originally I started using it because I wanted something that would behave like Netscape, now I'm holding on to it like grim death because it seems to be one of the few browsers remaining that aren't rapidly turning into bloatware.

Mine's the one with the "lighter, safer alternative to IE" nostalgia in the pocket.

[Tracking system]

Well the question is comlicated and i have no any words about it. Mine has already been locked and the way this can be going, there is no way I am unlocking it.

[Anonymous Coward]

By locked meaning disabling upgrades? That makes another one of us then.

[theokurgan]

Firefox

So many plugins are not backward compatible. I use a mixture of FF and Chrome but it used to be a 100% FF split, now its a 50/50%

[Anonymous Coward]

I've been using the Classic Compact theme, some addons, and some userchrome scripts to "fix" Firefox ever since 4.0... No matter what UI changes Mozilla makes, these addons/themes are still supported.

I've also disabled the keyword search/URL autocomplete and the safe browsing features that send data to Google.

I've been using the same user profile with this configuration ever since FF 4.0, so I never really had a reason to turn off FF updates - I don't think the Australis (not Atlantis!) update will give me a reason either.

[on ap standa]

I've been using the Classic Compact theme, some addons, and some userchrome scripts to "fix" Firefox ever since 4.0.

[MustyMusgrave]

ever get that feeling

Ever get that feeling that if all these browsers where not so bloody privacy invasive you wouldnt need to update it every other day?

Plenty of alterantives to firefox and even if they dont support streaming video or stupid invasive web-scripts.. Clearly thats the way to go!

When your browser goes from being a few megabytes to suddenly 160mb for a browser it's clearly time to think about another browser!

But wait that would hurt advertising revenue... And that should bother me why? I pay for this connection to read a few lines of text, not to get hijacked with click-jacking, cross-site scripting and the rest of the dross your advertising firm wants to shovel down our throat!

Mozilla pfft, should have called it Mal-Zilla!

CVE - Critical Vulnerability Exposure - Update

CVE - Critical Vulnerability Exposure - Update

CVE - Critical Vulnerability Exposure - Update

erm.. No, lets just do what we should have done from day one, flush it down the toilet!