My hope is that they see positive pickup from their "developer" release and also start making a "power-user" release. Because all the good work that they have been doing with regards to speed/responsiveness & memory management is being undone by dumbing down the interface to Chrome levels or worse. And if I wanted my browser to look like Chrome, I've would have installed it already.

Why is it that in the year 2014 there are still buttons that I cannot move (back/forward/reload/etc..)? Why is it that there still is the obsession with making all button bars and menus smaller or even hide them completely? I needed that on my Asus eee netbook in 2007, now, in 2014, I have retina screens everywhere. The icons for home/bookmarks/reload are so small on my screen that I have problems positioning my mouse over them. no: I do not want to hunt for a 18pix target when I have at least 1440pix vertically available.

And don't even get me started on hiding parts of the url. WHY would anyone on purpose hide parts of the web address that I need to see, if only to check that it is correct...

Of course there are many things that can be configured by userchrome scripts and about:config settings. But I do not want to carry around my personal "patchset" just to make a browser usable.