According to this tweet Vimperator is dead. I haven't yet dug into the exact reason but my guess is that Firefox is probably going the way of Chrome in severely restricting what plug-ins are able to do in the browser.
I find this apparent trend of taking functionality away VERY frustrating. If I have to use a web browser every day - why can't I make it look as I please (In my case no GUI at all)? I understand trying to get rid of bloat etc. But it seems that everywhere I look we are having features and the ability to tweak our software taken away from us.
Microsoft's Visual Studio removed macros. What?! You HAD a fully functional and amazingly useful feature and you TOOK IT OUT?! I still cannot understand that one.
But back to you, web browsers. You don't let us define our own hotkeys you don't let us always hide the tab bar. Chrome, you don't even let us add notes to our bookmarks.
And on mobile OSs - the area of growth AND where people may eventually do full on computer-ing you don't allow us to put bookmarks in folders or nothin. We're expected to go onto a desktop to do that?
I find it frustrating that we once had tweaking freedom and now we're locked into a uniform UI. Yeah sure MySpace was ugly and annoying with all the tweaking and blingy gifs but at least people had the freedom to make their accounts their own - to express themselves.
Now we're all in assigned GUI uniforms. Obediently marching down the narrow row of approved features and functionality.
Pfff.
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