In my opinion tabs-on-top has been definitely an improvement. You can switch between them easily, you can see all the tabs available without pressing any key and you don’t need to depend of your desktop environment to switch between these. I use a tiling window manager and this would have been particularly painful if it wasn’t for tabs. In this way you can also have features for tabs like muting tabs and sending them to other devices.
I don’t know what the writer means with “Then the about:config option was removed”, as far as I can remember I’ve always been able to use about:config. The only exception is the new firefox for mobile, which has been definitely a step backwards, in terms of customization (very few extensions available and no about:config except in nightly) and usability (I’ve been reporting bugs since it was in beta and they are still not fixed).
Type in “Firefox Proton” on Google to look at the most commonly searched suggestions if you think I’m in the minority
This is clearly an example of silent majority. If you like the new design you don’t feel like writing posts here and there to say that. Obviously searching “firefox proton” will show negative feedback, because that’s the only feedback you can get using a search engine. Everyone I’ve spoken to irl has said positive things about the new design, but they’re just opinions.
I can’t say anything about bad coding paradigms and poor memory mangement, I’ve never actually looked at the source code and I’ve never encountered problems with memory mangement (but I have with chrome)
The section about privacy is just absurd:
Hidden telemetry that isn’t disabled when you click “disable telemetry”.
Any source to back up these claims? Based on this detailed post in ghacks it’s actually the opposite, and telemetry is collected without any identifier anyway.
Auto-updates you can’t switch off, pinging every 10 minutes
You can easily switch those off in about:addons
“Experiments” which require a separate opt out
Oh no, a separate mouse click. Definitely switching to chrome.
Now the latest offence is enforcing app based 2FA to login to a Firefox Add-on account just to make a custom theme, which you wouldn’t need in the first place if not for forced add-on signing.
Why would this be a privacy issue?
In conclusion I think this article is just written in bad faith, most of the claims are either personal opinions or just wrong
This article doesn’t make any sense:
In my opinion tabs-on-top has been definitely an improvement. You can switch between them easily, you can see all the tabs available without pressing any key and you don’t need to depend of your desktop environment to switch between these. I use a tiling window manager and this would have been particularly painful if it wasn’t for tabs. In this way you can also have features for tabs like muting tabs and sending them to other devices.
I don’t know what the writer means with “Then the about:config option was removed”, as far as I can remember I’ve always been able to use about:config. The only exception is the new firefox for mobile, which has been definitely a step backwards, in terms of customization (very few extensions available and no about:config except in nightly) and usability (I’ve been reporting bugs since it was in beta and they are still not fixed).
This is clearly an example of silent majority. If you like the new design you don’t feel like writing posts here and there to say that. Obviously searching “firefox proton” will show negative feedback, because that’s the only feedback you can get using a search engine. Everyone I’ve spoken to irl has said positive things about the new design, but they’re just opinions.
I can’t say anything about bad coding paradigms and poor memory mangement, I’ve never actually looked at the source code and I’ve never encountered problems with memory mangement (but I have with chrome)
The section about privacy is just absurd:
Any source to back up these claims? Based on this detailed post in ghacks it’s actually the opposite, and telemetry is collected without any identifier anyway.
You can easily switch those off in about:addons
Oh no, a separate mouse click. Definitely switching to chrome.
Why would this be a privacy issue?
In conclusion I think this article is just written in bad faith, most of the claims are either personal opinions or just wrong