Chrome is becoming the browser of the masses. Power user usability features are disappearing. I'm still upset over the removal of the backspace key as "back" navigation.
I shouldn't need an extension for this.
I shouldn't need an extension for this.
That was a ridiculous usability nightmare and was only popular due to muscle memory from IE doing it long ago (it was a terrible decision back then, too).
Good riddance to it, may no one ever again unfocus a form field by accident and wipe out an entire form with a single keypress.
In fact, the whole conversation surrounding this issue made me see for that, although hyperbolic, XKCD 1172 [1] actually isn't that contrived...
That's a bug in the browser caching design, not an issue with backspace navication.
Well it's clearely been targeting the masses since the beginning.
Remember this guy? [1] It's a 40 page comic book of stuff the masses would never care about.
The hint is the name: like falling a hairless man "Curly", Chrome had less UI chrome and festures than other browsers when released.
The awesome dev tools were simply because they dogfood well.
It'll support XUL when Firefox drops it.
I've used Tree Style tabs too long to give it up.
UI doesn't constantly change. The UI is pre-Australis. This is one of the reasons I moved to Pale Moon.
In the past I moved to Chrome because Firefox seemed bloated, but after many (HN) articles arguing that this has been fixed, i decided to give FF another chance.
But today I noticed that despite the fact that Tab Unloader actually does unload tabs, the Firefox process takes 1.5 Gigs on my computer even though pretty much all tabs should be unloaded at this point. It also seems to take longer for FF to show up when I alt-tab to it.
Am I doing something wrong here, or is FF still a bloaty piece of (admittedly) configurable shit? I really don't want to move back to Chrome, but there isn't enough ideology in me to opt for Firefox if it still sucks.