Why you SHOULD be using Firefox

If this continues I'll also look to move to another browser as this new layout is a complete mess as I still use Windows 7 as all the tabs are blurred together and semi transparent so you also can see blurred tabs of other instances of firefox or graphics from other programs/desktop behind the tabs area.

This makes it a complete pain in the ass to use, makes it hard to read tabs and causes eyestrain so I managed to work around it making a custom CSS to add tab seperators and colour the tabs but I had no idea about this so it took a couple of hours to figure this out.

This is the second update now where I've had to spent time to fix out of touch dev changes.
 
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G J said:
this new layout is a complete mess as I still use Windows 7
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I can understand your frustration, and especially the wider frustration among users about regular UI breaking changes. That said, complaining the theme doesn't play nice with Aero, on an OS that was last released 10 years ago and exited mainstream support 7 years ago, is a little strained. I doubt many devs anywhere are worrying about how their latest release works under 7, Vista or XP...
 
I keep getting drawn back to firefox (even with the dislike for proton) because it just has a better 'feel' to it but luckily it seems to have a ****** annoying bug where for some reason it just won't scroll a page until I click on it which keeps making me look at others (same bug seems to be in librewolf too).

I've tried waterfox but while it currently looks and feels good, it has some annoying bugs on webpages, especially if they use google recaptcha where it just won't register my results until I've done 5-10 attempts, all of which are right. I've treid palemoon in the past and that had issues on sites not supporting it so I went off on the hunt for another option.

So I went and checked out the obvious alternatives of vivaldi and brave which both have pro's and cons, I prefer the overall feel of vivaldi but prefer the security of brave, brave has one HUGE annoyance (can't find a setting anywhere) in that it doesn't warn before closing the browser even if I have 20+ tabs open (their solution, reload tabs at startup...um no).

Going to give opera a try because it 'might' fix the lack of new tab tools (it's a speed dial) which I like on firefox but doesn't work correctly on chrome (thumbnails are broken) but in the mean time does anyone have any suggestions for an alternative speed dial that is clean and simple?.
 
lsg1r said:
I keep getting drawn back to firefox (even with the dislike for proton) because it just has a better 'feel' to it but luckily it seems to have a ****** annoying bug where for some reason it just won't scroll a page until I click on it which keeps making me look at others (same bug seems to be in librewolf too).

I've tried waterfox but while it currently looks and feels good, it has some annoying bugs on webpages, especially if they use google recaptcha where it just won't register my results until I've done 5-10 attempts, all of which are right. I've treid palemoon in the past and that had issues on sites not supporting it so I went off on the hunt for another option.

So I went and checked out the obvious alternatives of vivaldi and brave which both have pro's and cons, I prefer the overall feel of vivaldi but prefer the security of brave, brave has one HUGE annoyance (can't find a setting anywhere) in that it doesn't warn before closing the browser even if I have 20+ tabs open (their solution, reload tabs at startup...um no).

Going to give opera a try because it 'might' fix the lack of new tab tools (it's a speed dial) which I like on firefox but doesn't work correctly on chrome (thumbnails are broken) but in the mean time does anyone have any suggestions for an alternative speed dial that is clean and simple?.
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After using Firefox for 20 years, trying to get away from it feels like trying to wear loose soft trousers versus jeans. Making you feel insecure. :cry:
 
V F said:
After using Firefox for 20 years, trying to get away from it feels like trying to wear loose soft trousers versus jeans. Making you feel insecure. :cry:
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Yeah... annoyingly after 19 years Mozilla started screwing up all the hard work we'd done making firefox feel like that comfy pair of jeans and keep trying to make it feel like we're wearing a pair of soft trousers lol

So now I need to break in a new pair of jeans that have just come out of the washing machine lol
 
Either I'm going crazy, but there seems to be more padding on the bookmark dropdown menu now. Time to fiddle with the userChrome again...

EDIT: For anyone that needs the code, this is what I'm using to remove the extra padding:
Code: 
/* Remove padding in bookmarks drop-down menu */
menupopup > menuitem, menupopup > menu {
padding-block: 4px !important;
}

As for the Firefox Suggest thing, there's supposed to be an option to disable it, but for some reason it's missing: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/navigate-web-faster-firefox-suggest
 
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I guess this might be the reason - "If you see "Firefox Suggest" entries in address bar suggestions but you do not see the above setting to show Firefox Suggest in the address bar, you may be part of an active study for improving the Firefox Suggest feature. See About Studies for more information."

So, we are all unwitting guinea-pigs.
 
Buffalo2102 said:
I guess this might be the reason - "If you see "Firefox Suggest" entries in address bar suggestions but you do not see the above setting to show Firefox Suggest in the address bar, you may be part of an active study for improving the Firefox Suggest feature. See About Studies for more information."

So, we are all unwitting guinea-pigs.
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The weird thing is, I have studies disabled, so I shouldn't even have the feature at all. I can't see it in the 92 release notes so no idea why it's enabled for me.
 
I have studies disabled too and have Firefox Suggests but can't see the disable option.

So, we are either part of a study that's been forced on us, or they have mistakenly removed or omitted the Firefox Suggests option from the UI.

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