Why does Firefox Update throw away all customization?
Every time Firefox updates, it completely throws away all of the toolbar arrangements and other customizations I have worked hard to optimize. If you want people to update for "security reasons," why do you muck around with my GUI? I spend a lot of effort trying to get the buttons where I want them and I configured plenty of little hidden features in about:config so that the browser works right, all for nothing....
Guess I will have to reinstall the old version I had and totally start over, this time turning update to "Never check for updates" to avoid wasting my time in the future.
Sorry for being pissed off. I appreciate security updates, but there is no reason to force a funky GUI on everyone, and this really is a humongous waste of time needing to redo all of my settings yet again.
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Hey,
Sorry about this issue with GUI changes, I hadn't heard of it before :/ The people who answer questions here, for the most part, are other Firefox users volunteering their time (like me), not Mozilla employees or Firefox developers.
If you want to leave feedback for Firefox developers, you can go to the Firefox Help menu and select Submit Feedback... or use this link. Your feedback gets collected at http://input.mozilla.org/, where a team of people read it and gather data about the most common issues. Hopefully they'll be able to do something about this.
Thanks!
Curtis Parfitt-Ford Mozilla Support
Firefox 29, released on April 29 [over 6 months ago], was the latest major change to the UI.
Oh I thought it was actually part of Mozilla since that link comes directly to this site. Thank you for informing.
Not sure why it updated now instead of 6 months ago then. In any case, it would be much more reasonable if the gui was modular so they could include whatever bizarre form they want in new releases, but you can continue to use what you want.
It's not like a different GUI would break functionality in any way, it is just a map of functions to click space, so the forced rework is quite unneccessary.
It wasn't "modular" before, now it serves both desktop and mobile versions of Firefox. One code base for both.
Let Mozilla know what you think of the changes here: https://input.mozilla.org/en-US/feedback
We can't do a thing about changing it. All we can do is commiserate our misery and offer suggestions about how to revert some of the changes.
I know it was not modular before, I was merely stating that there appears no reason it should not be. Seems like a better solution to the interface than what is/has been. As you were implying, reverting would cause a schism between computer versions, but my point is that breaking the gui off of the big blob browser would make it so any computer could have an optimal choice without need for compromise.
Modified by zjunksend