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WTF?! The color of my right-click menu changed again!

I am sticking with Firefox simply because it is not Chrome, but this is silly. Why does the looks have to change constantly. The browser is where one ends up spending most of one's time these days and it is insane that I have to double-, triple-takes every time Firefox is upgraded.

Don't get me started on videos starting to auto-play after certain updates, "studies", etc. The past few years has been a steady downhill ride.

Update: Apparently, the theme I had settled on after the last update is no longer supported or some such. Setting it to "system" gave me back my light right-click menu. sigh

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I think that someone internally may think Chrome is more user friendly and that is why people don't use Firefox, which I don't think is true. Both have always been pretty good, especially since Quantum when Firefox merged the search bar and address bar (which is easier for most people I think).

I'm still rocking that search bar, i love it as a little store for notes or if I need to copy/paste two things over and over

Just make sure to disable search suggestions, or Google gets a peek at your "corner clipboard" all the time.

That isn't true if you set your default engine to DDG or Startpage though! Would be quite the dystopian agreement between Google and Mozilla if so.

I use it for notes too, and being able to update and resubmit my last search easily. And it's probably the core reason why I can't leave Firefox. The tab sync/send is just better too.

> if I need to copy/paste two things over and over

I always miss having a separate selection clipboard when I'm on a non-X11 system. Such a useful feature yet missing almost everywhere.

I'd just be happy if the "system" theme actually honored my system theme. They broke that a few updates back. Now, instead of my focused window having a colored title bar to make it stand out, it's just a drab grey like my unfocused windows. It's little stuff like that which prevents me from using FF as my daily driver.

Yeah I was going to say, this sounds like a problem on your end.

Glad you got it figured out. The UX of the forced theme change should be improved, however!

...the theme I had settled on after the last update is no longer supported...

Definitely problem on a author ends.

I didn't mean to say it was your fault, just that it was not a problem with Firefox's UI itself. Breaking changes to the addon and theme APIs are perhaps a bit too common, though ;)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/matte-black-t... (not affiliated) It has black right-click menu

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