Firefox are almost as arrogant
Several months ago they decided (with no reasoning given) to double space menu's, tab list, etc. resulting in only about half the number of pages being visible when you have more than about 20 tabs in a list:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1346810
Apparently this is being reverted later this month.
I found it a real pain and suspect some disabled users will have found it extremely awkward. I'm not sure if it didn't break disability access legislation!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
