Tuesday, September 18, 2018

You Hate Me Don't You?

Dear Firefox,
Was it something I did? Why do you hate me? Although no one I know uses you, I do. When people talk about Chrome and the extensions they use for work stuff, I mention you and what you can do. But apparently you are trying to make me break up with you.

I came back to you a few years ago, because in the age of Chrome with its locked down interface and restrictions on what plugins could do, you still allowed extensions like Vimperator to do whatever they wanted to you - hide tabs, footer, menus etc. I really just wanted to use Vimperator. But I came to really like you.

Then you took Vimperator away. I guess no one wants to customize the look of their applications, or use plugins that do all kinds of crazy fun stuff to them.

But I still stuck by you, Firefox. Even though I couldn't hide your tabs anymore or use you like VIM. Your bookmarks were far better than anyone else's. Keywords and notes... perfect. I could take notes and access them even at work thanks to your bookmark sync.

Then you took bookmark notes away. Seriously. What is your problem. Why does everyone keep taking things away? Visual Studio took macros away (Absolutely ridiculous), Windows keeps trying to take away the desktop for big Duplo blocky nonsense. Our cell phones are taking away our headphone jacks. Apple nearly took away the caps lock key.
We can't customize our software, we aren't allowed to have admin rights on our own tablets and phones.l, we can't use our headphones without a special adapter (So we can't charge our phones while listening to them via said adapter).

As ugly and crazy as it was I miss the days of customization and MySpace.

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