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They didn't make the addon. What, you want them to go back on 15 years of history and make the UI non-customizable? What are they, Google?

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I think he just wants them to not screw up the UI so badly in the first place that numerous addons and customization is needed to bring it back to a minimal level of usability.

I'm not sure what were the datapoints that suggested to them that the UI was in need of an overhaul but I would have been much happier if they lowered the cpu usage of Firefox. To be fair I have a massive number of bookmarks (12000+) and tabs :-/ I was happy with the UI as it were. I'm using Ubuntu, btw.

I've fallen in love with rekonq recently, it always has really low memory footprints, loads instantly, and uses webkit so 99.9% of sites that work in Chromium work in it too. (I say that because it hasn't updated to blink yet).

It is supposed to get Chrome extension support this year too, and if I ever had the time I'd try to expand their sync options (currently Opera + Chrome) to sync tabs and such.

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