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I love you Firefox, I tolerate you Mozilla. But I’m not sure a private browsing button, and fall colors really show your commitment to “cyber security month”.

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Yeah. There's nothing of substance here. All it is is a shortcut for private mode and a default to dark theme when you're in private mode. Not really noteworthy. It's a user-hostile update, even. Dark theme by default when private? I'll control my own themes, thanks. If people are unsure whether they're in private mode, put a permanent private mode indicator in the UI. And what about people who will now confuse dark theme with private mode? Their privacy story just got worse!

> put a permanent private mode indicator in the UI.

There is. The purple and white mask icon in the upper-right window corner, and in each private tab.

Then the dark theme default was not necessary. And I'll note that it's a private mode indicator on NEW private tabs only.

The corp speak at Mozilla is getting even weirder. It sounds like something my HR VP would say:

> new desktop feature that allowed our users to express their most authentic selves and bring joy while browsing the web.

No, it’s just another color theme setting.

Marketing prose is to be expected, but this is just too much. I suspect there aren't enough people at Mozilla with the courage to tell the marketing/brand management folks to tone it down. I don't necessarily blame them, though. It isn't easy to give criticism to creative folks with a great deal of enthusiasm.

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