I wonder what reason fanboys of moz will come up with to justify this idiotic design.
so many people complain and create their own solutions (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1418752)
but the fanboys tell me the users are just stupid and yet fail to explain how “close application” and “get mails” should be in one row. is this good for a known workflow?
please fanboys enlighten me how this is not yet another of many many terrible decisions by the digital terrorists behind moz? (killing weave, ugly logos, locking down on customization, having amazon default in adressbar search and so on…)
is there one sane argument to do it? and do we have to fear firefox to lose more users soonish with the same designfail for the browser?
https://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php
2.8% firefox …so 2% in 2024?
Also, yes. They’ve been doing this for over a decade now.
can we agree that doing so is not a healthy behaviour?
I disagree. FOSS will never survive without the ability to connect with new users, and an unfamiliar UI would act as one of the biggest barriers to those who are coming from other software. If you don’t like it, use something else. I personally like Geary, but there are other FOSS mail clients too. Additionally, Mozilla’s contributions to the browser market have been admirable, regardless of their Google funding, as they are the last browser that isn’t entirely a marionette dancing on Google’s strings.
Hm. So the old UI is unfamiliar…if you say so.
I think the worst is to take an option away and then say go away if you dont like it.
That is how you get a 3% marketshare.
I’m not referring to this UI specifically. I was simply refuting your point of matching mainstream UI trends being always bad. Also, I don’t like removing options either, but it takes effort to maintain things, and ultimately the UI is at the developer’s discretion.