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I understand the point of having the file every time I switch the FF version or the machine I'm running it in. It's portable and keeps me away from having to get near the teeth-grindingly awkward 'about:config' interface.

"checking for this file needlessly causes additional IO early on startup" is probably the lamest reason to get rid of it.

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This is how user-control enabling features get removed, with barely a whimper. And it appears to be done by people that are looking for easy-hanging fruit to promote their brand from the look of it.

I've lost my voice from all the other features they've dropped over the last decade plus. It's all fallen on deaf ears, anyway.

They don't care about Firefox users, because they're not Chrome users.

They're going to be Chrome users now. Everyone has their limit.

or MSblink, Vivaldi, Opera, Brave.

We are talking tens of miliseconds wasted every single day!

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