HOW do we get you guys (and gals) to STOP CHANGING THE INTERFACE WITHOUT AN OFF SWITCH ???? A FEATURE WITHOUT AN OFF SWITCH IS JUST ANOTHER DEFECT !!!
Every time I choose to, or am forced to, upgrade, there is at least one stupid / un-useful/ performance or usability killing change to the Interface. Make the product better or faster but STOP making Front End changes that cannot be undone, and also please document all front-end changes and how to set them back. Beta testers are NOT a good poll for customer assumption. I beta many programs and am always shocked and amused at just what other users think is "useful", but i NEVER would suggest a front-end change without an 'OFF SWITCH" or "Choice-seletion" - that way, everyone is happy. I.e 1 - New download window just sucks. I don't need to see History, the left waste-of-space window, nor the waste of space that comes from NOT having a 1-lin per download display 2 - Who was the brain surgeon who decided that no one wants menus, and then did not document it - we all had to find out in web searches just what key under about:config turns off that stupid button 3 - Tools/Options .. WHERE did all the OPTIONS GO ?? There used to be pages for each tab ?
Note - this is being sent from an XP system - but the same stupid things happen on my Win7 and Linux systems
Chosen solution
Use Help > Submit Feedback or post your feedback here - https://input.mozilla.org/en-US/feedback
As far as Firefox "running dead last" behind even Safari, where do you see stats like that?
Yes, Chrome and Firefox are neck by neck in many stats reports, but Safari barely rates 4% in the statistics I have recently seen.
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Sorry that you aren't happy with all the recent changes in Firefox, but there is no point in screaming at those of us who do Mozilla Firefox Support in this forum. For the most part we are all other Firefox users who volunteer our time to help other Firefox users understand their issues with Firefox. We don't have a "say" in the changes that have been made (and are coming down the "pike" in future versions).
To see what has been changed in each new version of Firefox see the release notes. (example)
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/23.0.1/releasenotes/
Just put the version number for the latest version to see the release notes for that version.
https: //www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ version /releasenotes/
as in -
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/26.0/releasenotes/
As far as the Downloads window, take a look at the Add-ons website for an extension that restores the older downloads interface.
I am using this "downloads" extension in both Firefox 26 and the Australis Nightly version, so when Australis hits the release level in Firefox 29 or 30 I won't have to relearn a different downloads interface.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/download-status-bar/
edmeister
I thought this was a gateway to the programmers and did not mean to deliver my scorn and distaste to you.
no offense, but your suggestions, all of them fall into the "just accept it and move on" category - which is just NOT acceptable to me.
.. I just ran into another "improvement" in 21.0 that has my teeth on edge .. and then the automatic update-notifier, if it was aware, would wonder why I strenuously refuse to upgrade .. - Every time I upgrade, something stupid is added or something useful is removed, and the only 'official' answers are to use a 3rd party add on or just 'accept it', or spend time, a LOT of time, decompiling and recompiling old FF code and adding it back into the current version to regain the Front end I want ... which is VERY time consuming.
.... How does one speak to, talk to, contact, the actual programmers or Product managers of this once-wonderful tool that is now running dead last behind Opera, Chrome and Safari (which is two years old and still better than version 21). ....I just restored my original downloads window, menus AND behavior but it took a week. I sent the message that you replied to when I was just plain stuck in rebuild, with no idea what was wrong. Took my son to notice an extra paren and comma ... ... PLEASE tell me how to speak to, email with or at least contact, the actual programmers or Product managers ..
thank you
Chosen Solution
Use Help > Submit Feedback or post your feedback here - https://input.mozilla.org/en-US/feedback
As far as Firefox "running dead last" behind even Safari, where do you see stats like that?
Yes, Chrome and Firefox are neck by neck in many stats reports, but Safari barely rates 4% in the statistics I have recently seen.
Thank you for the addy for Mozilla feedback.
As to where I get my stats ? This is what I hear from everyone, and I do mean everyone, that I work with, game with, know professionally and personally. Maybe I am just in a cluster of individuals but the # 1 - #3 issue that we have with commercial (eg not written by ourselves and not planned/managed strictly from an all-users basis) software, ALL of us, is the constant and unnecessary forced Interface changes, and again "A feature without an off switch is a bug". I'm not sure (but I think it was me to M$ in the mid 80's over Winblows 2) which of the five of us who take credit for that statement actually said/emailed/sent it first - but it is a mantra.
Thanks for your attempts to help - I will, and will recommend to the others that they too, send detailed messages to the feedback site with complaints and suggestions.
thanks