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Comment by super_mario | Hacker News Reader

Fucking idiotic morons. Completely ruining what used to be a good browser. I've had enough of this shit. Every single updated has to fuck up my Pentadactyl experience. That's it. I give up. If I can't use Pentadactyl, I have 0 reason to use Firefox. Goodbye. I'm removing it from all my computers and never looking back.

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I use Pentadactyl with it just fine in the Aurora channel and have since it first landed.

Part of the problem, though, is that the guys at Pentadactyl messed with userChrome.css as part of the newest pentadactyl builds, which causes a TON of issues with other addons (especially anything that adds a toolbar). Vimperator doesn't do it, but ew Vimperator, so.

There needs to be a solution for people who want a solid Pentadactyl/Firefox instead of the newest version of FF breaking a lot of functionality.

Definitely. I assumed it was an issue of the sites not maintaining good user interfaces, but that excuse doesn't work when every FF update breaks pentadactyl's ability to select search fields on Google...

What are the reasons for your preference for Pentadactly over Vimperator?

I just like its defaults more. Not trying to autocomplete files, not trying to be pretty instead of fast, and more consistently working how Vim does in general (along with just other tiny interface things). I can use Vimperator , I just prefer to not.

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