Firefox Compact Mode Might Get Removed

What the hell is wrong with these people?

> "Compact" density is a feature of the "Customize toolbar" view which is currently fairly hard to discover, and we assume gets low engagement.

1. If the feature gets little "engagement" because it's hard to discover – not because it's useless – maybe consider making it easier to discover?

2. Firefox is full of telemetry so I can't believe you have to "assume" the feature is little-used. My theory: This is corporate-speak for "We don't care if people use compact mode, some UI designer wants to remove it because

- they don't find it aesthetically pleasing (bonus points if people seeing "ugly" Firefox is bad for the brand).

or

- they get paid to change things. This is changing things, so they do it.

or

- they are part of a simplicity (cargo) cult."

> We want to make sure that we design defaults that suit most users and we'll be retiring the compact mode for this reason.

This makes no sense. The default mode doesn't suit people better because you remove the alternative.

> For clarity we retain the "Touch" density for accessibility reasons on touch devices.

So removing compact mode doesn't even simplify anything!

I use Firefox in compact mode on all of my work/personal machines, and have noticed that most of my Firefox-using friends also use compact mode.

I absolutely cannot stand product managers who try to remove features that they don't personally use. I remember when Firefox used to be customizable. I wish there were some way for users to have a voice -- the bugzilla system doesn't even have a way to vote against a "feature" that removes features you actually use!

I will be very disappointed if they remove this option. I’ve used the compact option since I first installed Firefox.

I may have to try one of the forks that brings back Mozilla’s removed features.

...meanwhile, TMK, session managment proper APIs that were promised pre-quantum migration still haven't materialized. There still is no session manager that is on par to ye Olde Session Manager by Kraft (IIRC names accurately).

I hate that part of new Firefox, that loss of customization/-ability.

Why do I feel like devs themselves are trying to kill Firefox. Previously hiding close all tabs functionality and now this...

I don't really understand what sort of demographic all they trying to look for? Clearly they see little value in supporting power users...

I always use compact mode regardless of screen height but one of my screens is 600px high, I need compact mode for it. The web is unusable without those few extra pixels I gain from compact mode. I also set layout.css.devPixelsPerPx to 0.75. I keep telemetry enabled too because I know some of the features I need are in danger of being removed if they disappear from their statistics but it seems that it doesn't help at all if they remove them anyway. If this gets removed I'm turning off telemetry, I'll have no use for it anymore.

Thanks, didn't know this was there. Enabled, for now.