Yeah, they're trying to remove the settings that people set to goof up their browsers from the look of this. There's this one, too:
"Load images automatically" and Always show the tab bar" checkboxes removed from preferences and reset to defaults
"Load images automatically" and Always show the tab bar" checkboxes removed from preferences and reset to defaults
I am tired of having my freedoms stripped from my browser without any representation into the process. As a user of the browser I was not adequately informed of the upcoming changes nor was I given an opportunity to choose not to upgrade.
THIS MUST END
Contact me for further information, the revolution begins today.
pretty sure those options went off because enough people decided that the preferences/option panel was too complicated and these were the ones that telemetry indicated were the least used.
https://socialcam.com/v/39HPvZde
Protesters can be heard chanting:
"WHAT DO WE WANT?"
"The ability to disable tabbed browsing"
"WHEN DO WE WANT IT"
"Possibly in the next point release, but the next major is cool too"
This is not a conspiracy, just making browser hard to break for people who check boxes and forget about these. For those, browser is broken!
Those who know what disabling JavaScript actually does still have a way to disable! Where does all the privacy talk come in between?
When I got my last company laptop without all these things set, I was surprised how painful it was to try and download anything without a proper adblocker and noscript. I don't know how people do it.
I agree that these options are for power users, but my fear is that soon after they relegate the ability to disable javascript to the bowels of the application, they will soon remove it entirely. And that this decision is in fact not driven just by the fact that it is seldom used, but driven more-so by the corporate interests they hold with advertising and other online entities that serve not for the browser users, but their own corporate interests. This fundamentally collides with the intent of the Mozilla foundations purpose and this behavior must stop.
The ability to disable javascript has been on the main screen of the options panel because it serves a very important purpose.
Also the ability to not show tabs when browsing a single web page because for that use case, it is more optimal to not show a tab and waste the screen real estate on dead space.
They have fundamentally altered the Firefox browser in a fundamental way that is not configurable and have not provided reasonable alternative.
I refuse to accept any so called "Add-On". These features are not to be pushed off into to the extremities of the community and be forgot about. I firmly believe that any such browser serving only the interests of the user would see these features as being non-optional options and should exist in perpetuity for the life of that software.
Which way I'd this one going to go? On or of? And the fact that I have to ask tells me that maybe they should not have removed the option.
Personally I'm glad it's in the visible direction though.
An option should only be removed if the "better" way is obvious.