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I HATE this so much!

I switched to Firefox to enjoy a more open, user-friendly, and non-shittified product experience.

I fully expected Chrome to do this sort of stuff, but why is Mozilla also following suit?

I hate it too, but to be fair we signed up for this when we decided to install Firefox Nightly instead of the stable version. As the author of the change writes:

> This is a partial implementation of the URL bar, this will have to be addressed in phase 2 when the address bar is reworked.

Now, if this partial implementation makes it into the stable version as-is, that would certainly be a failure of release management, but otherwise it's just the nightly acting as testing ground for half-baked stuff.

Well, except you were forced to use Nightly if you wanted to use any unapproved extensions (i.e. the vast majority of them).

I would fully expect no improvements before this lands in stable. To add insult to injury, they might even say that they trialled it in Nightly and found it to be a great success.

I only use Nightly because you have to to install unapproved extensions

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