- Things I don’t use like multiple search engines
- Hiding HTTPS: stupid idea I guess but I’m waiting for someone to prove me wrong
Overall, I have the feeling that they made changes for changes’ sake but I may be wrong. Anyway, they lost (again) 10k users this year and I don’t understand how those changes would help (https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity)
My reason for liking the hiding of https is that it will still make it obvious when the website you’re visiting in http, so there isnt much downside, and it lets you see more of long urls, since you no longer have the http taking up space at the beginning
Also, if Firefox sends me to a Google search instead of the web page I typed in the address bar as much as a single time, I’m switching to something else.
I’ve been using Firefox for about 25 years.
You can disable the search feature from the address bar completely by adding these to your about:config
keyword.enabled = false
browser.urlbar.oneOffSearches = false
I’m not saying I disagree, but does the average use have to worry about HTTPS though? The vast majority of sites use it now and most users aren’t very privacy or security conscious (even if they should be).
Great to see Firefox getting cool features again
