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Firefox still doesn't support some basic Mac OS X features like rubber scrolling and contextual menus. And it is known how slowly they've adapted Lion style fullscreen and invisible scrollbars. Chrome folks, on the other hand, keep up with Mac OS X updates very quickly. Nowadays, Mozilla cares more about stuff like diversifying profits (Pocket integration for example) than making user-friendly browser.

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I've been using Firefox and Chrome interchangeably on my MacBook and did not notice that rubber scrolling is not implemented, as it's not something important to me and what do you mean by contextual menus?

But btw, this goes both ways. On Windows 10 my Firefox looks better and behaves properly with a bigger DPI value, whereas Chrome does not. Now that's an important feature ;-)

> Mozilla cares more about stuff like diversifying profits (Pocket integration for example)

That's not a good example -- Mozilla supposedly didn't get any money to add Pocket.

Why they added that Pocket integration (with no easy way to uninstall it like an extension, and yes I know you can goto the ever so user-friendly about:config and make changes), I'll never know. After tons of complaints about that bundleware, Mozilla continues to leave it in.

It's not "supposedly", it's a fact. That was done because the product owner believed that was the best partner to work with on this feature.

Also, we listened to complaints, and pocket is moving out of the main tree back to being an add-on. You can follow the progress at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215694

Invisible scrollbar is a user-hostile form-over-function feature.

suppose thats 10 000 devs vs 100 devs being an issue, sadly

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