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>[...]Firefox Colorways, a new desktop feature that allowed our users to express their most authentic selves[...]

I'd like to express myself and say that I just want a secure and privacy-respecting browser that gets its priorities straight.

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I kind of like the colourways, but the way they present it is quite a bit over the top. Just call it themes and be done with it.

From Mozilla's point of view its probably that people might get confused between the old and new themes and wonder why all the highly customisable themes we use to have no longer work. So we have to have a new the colourways name so Mozilla can market the 'new' feature and sidestep the problem.

Themes still work, wdym?

Priorities like mentioning PDF editing before sickly doublespeak about...theming.

Do people think it's one person implementing Theming, PDF editing, and Privacy Mode protects; and that he just needs to re-prioritize his backlog?

Why can't developer of difference capabilities contribute in different ways? I'm a competent developer but I will never be kernel module, crypto, or netcode competent; does that mean I should just forgo contributing to anything?

If it's implemented by volunteers then yeah let them work on whatever they want. If it's implemented by paid employees at Mozilla then it's up to them what devs they're hiring, and if they spend their finite budget on devs reimplementing theming then that's totally on them.

They didn't reimplement anything. They're normal themes, just bundled with the browser and with a special chooser.

I think that someone wrote the entire spiel about the life-changing aspects of changing some colours of a program without realising how plastic it sounds, when they could have written it to be read by real people, and have a grasp of perspective. Visuals and aesthetics do play an important role but people want their software to do its job: be a useful tool.

That is honestly brave.

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