- get rid of the stories, popups, anything on the browser.
- fix your update schedule
- reduce anything that depends on having an account to be
bare bone. Keep the sign in option as visually unobtrusive as possible. I would be fine getting rid of accounts completely
- for the love of god, when I download a browser I don't want 20 forced popups/check boxes asking me to import this, import that, sign in, improve my experience, make default, get rid of all of it
- get rid of the suggested, stories, news feeds, widgets
So only get funding from the search deals? Also a lot of users love widgets.
- fix the update schedule so it doesn't brick randomly during the day until I restart it
Agree on this one
- get rid of accounts, ship a password manager extension by default if people can't be bothered to use one (I know accounts are here to stay, just make them... less)
There is a built in password manager without the need of accounts, I agree that accounts are pushed a little bit too much.
- When I download a browser I don't want 20 forced popups/check boxes asking me to import this, import that, sign in, improve my experience, make default, get rid of all of it
Because you know what you are doing. This doesn't apply to 98% of tech illiterate users, who won't know how to access the settings to import/change stuff later.
I use user.js to disable the suggestions, but this doesn't help on initial install and running of Firefox. It's among a over a hundred or so options user.js sets (and reset every startup) that I use to maintain my Firefox.
I'm using it now... Round tabs are dumb, a silly distracting unhelpful change. But I really like compact mode, gives me less browser and more website on my laptop.
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[ 1.9 ms ] story [ 7.5 ms ] thread- get rid of the stories, popups, anything on the browser.
- fix your update schedule
- reduce anything that depends on having an account to be bare bone. Keep the sign in option as visually unobtrusive as possible. I would be fine getting rid of accounts completely
- for the love of god, when I download a browser I don't want 20 forced popups/check boxes asking me to import this, import that, sign in, improve my experience, make default, get rid of all of it
- more dev tools
So only get funding from the search deals? Also a lot of users love widgets.
- fix the update schedule so it doesn't brick randomly during the day until I restart it
Agree on this one
- get rid of accounts, ship a password manager extension by default if people can't be bothered to use one (I know accounts are here to stay, just make them... less)
There is a built in password manager without the need of accounts, I agree that accounts are pushed a little bit too much.
- When I download a browser I don't want 20 forced popups/check boxes asking me to import this, import that, sign in, improve my experience, make default, get rid of all of it
Because you know what you are doing. This doesn't apply to 98% of tech illiterate users, who won't know how to access the settings to import/change stuff later.
user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.engines", false);
user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.importantDates", false);
user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.mdn", false);
user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.quicksuggest", false);
user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.quicksuggest.nonsponsored", false);
user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.quicksuggest.sponsored", false);
user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.recentsearches", false);
user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.searches", false);
user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.sports", false);
user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.topsites", false);
user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.trending", false);
user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.weather", false);
user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.yelp", false);
user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.yelpRealtime", false);
Updates: there is a policies.js option that allows one to take control of updates.
"DisableAppUpdate": true,
On Linux, placed into /usr/lib/firefox/distribution/policies.json
I sure wish they did.
The new Firefox design is here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49892721