However, I was highly dissatisfied with FF, long before the Brendan issue. I too, “jumped ship” leaving FF way behind, when Eric Brendan was treated so poorly, by a company he had invested 15 years of his career in. Can the Open Source browsers based on Firefox use the same add-ons as Firefox? Infact I don’t know what browser to use if Firefox stops. I am not a developer and I dont know if there has been big changes under the hood.īut if the things you note about DRM and Ads are true, well that could put everything in a whole new perspective. And a bit like moving away from pro users (and hiding info for the masses). Infact I think most of the new layout is clever and tasteful, but removing the status bar was just plain dumb. The only thing I did was to install this ad-on: When the new GUI arrived I was a bit annoyed that Mozilla forced me to have tabs on top, it’s illogical but now I’ve gotten used to it.

And FF still looks and acts much better than Chrome. But I personally don’t care if Firefox copies or gets inspired by someone else.

Clear bottom bar in pale moon browser