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Last major Firefox UI overhaul was... Firefox 57, the first Quantum release, in November 2017.

It's had various tweaks since, but my day to day experience has been the same since then. This is not an absurd pace of UI change in my opinion.

And yes it is a conceptually simple UI, but with the whole stuff around the web with security, permissions, tab and window management and how an awful lot of modern computer use by an awful lot of people is conducted entirely inside a web browser it's a UI that is worth improving where improvements can be found.

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I thought the Address Bar redesign in 75.0 was pretty major in April 2020.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/75.0/releasenotes/

Yes. bookmark animation and page action is major update of photon.

It's really sad that both are gone. - https://dolske.wordpress.com/2017/08/01/photon-engineering-n... - https://dolske.wordpress.com/2017/08/04/photon-engineering-n...

Your day to day experience isn't necessarily the same as everyone else's. It hasn't been long since "View page info" was confined to a hidden menu and all context menu labels were changed for absolutely no reason.

Can’t remember the last time I used ‘View Page Info’, I usually just bring up the dev tools and click the mouse icon to get to the area I want to see.

I find Page Info (Ctrl+I, [1]) dialogue pretty useful: especially list of all loaded media and information presented in Security tab is something that you could dig in devtools quite cumbersomely or not at all.

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-page-info-windo...

You can get to the security tab of it by clicking the lock to the left of the URL, the right caret in the popup menu, and then clicking more info, in case you wanted another way.

Not on 89 on macOS at least ...

I just tried it on 89 on macOS and it’s still there. Click “Connection secure”, then “More Information”, to give the exact text.

I wish you could enable/disable JavaScript from that dialog.

uBlock origin has a per-website disable javascript button. It's only 2 clicks if you have the uBlock origin button in your toolbar.

I've been trying to find that since it disappeared! Do tell!

Easiest is to just hit CTRL-I. Otherwise click the lock/not locked icon to the left of the address, click Connection secure/Connection not secure, then click More Information.

In addition to what you've been told this dialog resides in the Tools menu, ALT+T I (ALT opens the classic menu bar). CTRL+I is the menu item's associated shortcut.

My issue with the context menu is "Search [selection] with Google" is in the middle of the context menu, after "Print selection" and "Take screenshot". Why?

I cannot be the only one that uses that functionality 100 times a day at least, and it's so not conveniently placed I used to misclick "View selection source" instead a dozen times a day, and now I'll be taking screenshots or opening the print dialog by mistake. I've been googling a way of rearranging the context menu on Firefox so that selection search is rearranged or has a keyboard shortcut and not _one_ soul has ever mentioned it in the past decade, which is maddening.

One of the reason I use Edge nowadays is that "Search with Google" is the second option, between Copy and "Search with Bing in the sidebar", which isn't ideal, but it's still search.

It's awful. "Search with Google" is actually the only reason I ever use the context menu.

Copy? Keyboard/mouse buttons for that.

Select All? Why would I want to do that when I just made a selection?

Print Selection? How common can that actually be, to justify being positions above "search the internet for this thing"??

Take screenshot???? Really??

Why does "Inspect Accessibility Properties" get real estate there? That's a legitimate question.

Just want to say "Take screenshot" is the only reason I use context menu.

Yes! Me too and so when a site hijacks right click it's a little infuriating (but I have now learnt the keyboard shortcut).

Also I think holding shift while right-clicking will show the context menu even if the site hijacks right click. (And for some sites, I'm pretty happy with a custom context menu, so it's good to have both available.)

Is it just me or is it not obvious that this entry actually does something useful instead of duplicating the OS screenshot feature? An image of the entire page including the part not on screen isn't even a screen-shot.

If you're a mouse user you can drag and drop the selection to the address bar.

If you're a keyboard user you can do: ctrl-c ctrl-t ctrl-v enter

You can hide "Inspect Accessibility Properties" by unchecking the Accessibility menu in the developer tools settings.

You can use your userchrome.css to apply a background-color selectively to individual context-menu options. I do it for "view background image" and "copy link location," both of which I turn a deep purple. I've found this makes misclicks on these options (which are pretty much the only two I ever use) next to zero.

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