If UI changes needed everyone's approval, we would still be looking like a 1990's browser.
Overall FF is just as usable as the decade before in my opinion. And I kind of like the new tab design. The old super rounded tabs looked great for a while but it was time for a change.
I'm not a designer, but in my experience it helps to change up user interfaces now and then. However I wish we as users had more control over that. Color themes are not enough.
Why? I mean if users are used to the interface, can use without any friction and there's no real need to, why change it just for the heck of it?
So don't force them to change? Or has Mozilla really forgotten that they got their users by making the most customizable browser in the first place?
Twenty three years of churn has brought what UX benefits exactly? Hiding the protocol, hiding details about secure connections, hiding the status bar, hiding the text on tiny buttons, hiding the menus: https://mk0ghacksnety2pjrgh8.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/upload...
and for what? Optimising for people on 1366x768 laptops and people who don't want to do very much but search and click one result?
Firefox 2 looked fine in my opinion, I would be happy if they just kept it as it was back then.
ctrl+shift+n to reopen the last window.
The funny thing is that I just tried to find the "shortcuts" list for Firefox and is is nowhere to be found in their menu or in Preferences! Do I need to find it on some webpage?!?