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Comment by bmacho | Hacker News Reader

No it is not. In the past months/years they removed:

    - ability to zoom out images. Firefox has two different zooms, but none of them can zoom out images. If an image doesn't fit your screen, you can't see it period. 
    - ability to open an image in the same window 
    - ability to use different search engine in the search bar and URL bar 
    - ability to quickly change search engine clicking the magnifier icon top right
    - custom search engine URLs
    - showing download speed

I bump these into like every day, and they cause me minutes of annoyances. (and probably some others I can't recall now)

Firefox 2 years ago was a way better browser than it is now. And a lot of things still missing, like proper profiles.

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They removed RSS, removed compact mode, removed bookmark descriptions... I'm scared that at their current pace by 2030 they'll remove the last remaining feature and it will disappear.

Sometimes I wonder if Mitchell Baker and the product team are paid by Google to destroy their own browser.

Mozilla gets about 90% of their money from Google, 9% from advertising and 1% from privacy services like the VPN, which doesn't paint a good picture for their incentives, unfortunately. (The numbers are approximate because I can't look up the source right now, but they're public numbers and easy to search.)

In Firefox Developer Edition Desktop, I was able to

  - Quickly change search engine clicking magnifier icon top right
  - Set a custom search engine keyword ("wiki" + search term in the URL) via right-clicking a search bar
  - View download speed of an ISO file
  - Zoom images in and out, both as part of a page and as a standalone file

I was not able to right-click > open image in same tab, or have different default engines in URL vs search bar. That last use case is really edge, considering they have a search bar with multiple search engines and one can set search keywords and for most people, having different engines per bar would be unexpected and confusing.

Zoom is my wrong, I've set away browser.zoom.full option to text only.

zoom: not experienced here. I just visited a page with an image that doesn't (naturally) fit; Ctrl-scroll zooms it to fit (and back)

image in same window: seems true, but i can't imagine why you'd want this

search engines: I use single letter keywords to drive this. "g foobar" searches on google for foobar. "d foobar" searches duckduckgo. "o foobar" searches on google maps. Never had any desire to "quickly change the search engine" or have custom search engine URLs given keywords.

download speed: shows in the download dialog for me

Zoom is my wrong, I've set away browser.zoom.full option to text only.

Proper profiles are there what they need is a proper profiles UI. Just a switcher button in the normal browser window like Chrome and they’d be all set.

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