patrickjdempsey wrote:I'm more upset about what I'm guessing to be the end of true customization of toolbars. I do know that they are planning on locking the Back/Forward/urlbar/Stop/Reload into one fixed element. And judging by missing elements in the mockups I'm willing to wager that they will remove customization from toolbars other than Nav-bar and probably also remove the ability to create custom toolbars as well. These are BTW, extremely simple things to remove, every customizable toolbar carries the attribute:
toolbar[customizable="true"]
Remove that, and poof! customization disabled. All it takes to remove custom toolbars is simply don't include the button Add New Toolbar. Easy as pie. Looks like they already plan to move the Find bar to the top. And with those gone, and this new menu/addons button available, why would they need the rebranded statusbar/add-ons toolbar? Before you know it, the final nails in the coffin for customization will be simple, effortless patches.
I guess I should actually be happy for all the "non-profit, lack of resources, voluntary development etc.", considering all the slow development we complain about is the only thing that has kept Firefox Firefox.If Mozilla were more efficient, we'd already have a complete Chrome wannabe copy-cat in our hands.