puNES also deserves more attention. It is highly accurate and supports obscure mappers and Famicom Disk System games (being the only emulator that plays the QD format): https://github.com/punesemu/puNES

When a site doesn't work properly, please use this form to notify Mozilla: https://webcompat.com/issues/new

He's not asking about the User-Agent string sent to websites.

He's asking about how the browser identifies itself to the Windows operating system. According to him, other forks say simply "Firefox," which makes it impossible to run them alongside the official Firefox release.

You can vote for features on Mozilla Connect: https://connect.mozilla.org/

nice find. nobody uses that and sadly it became a desperate support forum which mostly goes ignored

Seems like a reasonable idea. With this in place, why are Mozilla using telemetry instead?

because Mozilla, the foundation, is hostile. it's a political money grab.

with telemetry they can justify whatever. they can go to the board and say "look people are clicking more on pocket, which we put prominently on the UI against everyone wishes, and they barely use bookmarks, which have critical bugs open for over 20years... who would have thought of this counterintuitive insight if it weren't for my genius persistence on trying and measuring new ideas uh? so are we good on the extra bonus to my close childhood friends?" ...see, it makes the pitch defensable, if you don't say the right parts out loud.

Vote here: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/split-screen-tab-in-tab...

Or don't waste your time, given Mozilla management does whatever it or Google wants? Just like with Google, nobody works on anything that won't help get them promoted?

There are decade-old "everyone agrees this sucks, please fix it" bugs in bugzilla that are ignored because nobody in management or development cares. It's not sexy, can't go on their resume, it won't let them give presentations at conferences, or get them on people's podcasts, or tweeted about...

76 ideas which were submitted are currently in development and 84 have been delivered.

Using your anger/passion to try and sway people to be even less involved doesn't help anyone.

OP stated that there are bugs over a decade old at this point, that still exist due to the concerns mentioned.

You didn’t address his statement nor his concerns.

You avoided that part of the conversation to basically tell him to shut up.

Address the issues first, like Firefox management team should be doing, but aren’t.

I’m with OP. Firefox is a horrible user experience. And it’s that way by design. Couldn’t have Google stop paying Mozilla’s bills now could they?

ReadCarlBarks linked to where you can vote on ideas.

KennyBlanken said don't bother to vote on ideas because they wont listen.

I pointed out that many ideas are in development or have been delivered (i.e. they do listen).

The rest seems pretty boring to discuss and unlikely to be a productive conversation. I'm already bored trying to explain this.

>76 ideas which were submitted are currently in development and 84 have been delivered.

So what? Does it invalidate the critics of glacial speed of making other improvements?

It invalidates the assertion that the ideas page isn't listened to and that it's a waste of time to vote on the features.

The meta bug was created 3 months ago: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1894060

Firefox equivalents:

https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/auto-close-tabs/

https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/limit-active-tabs/

They've already added a toggle to disable horizontal tabs.

They're working on a profile switcher: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/here-s-what-we-re...

Can’t you change the user profile in the command line with a flag? Surprised it takes this long to implement that in a gui fashion.

There's already a GUI (launch firefox with the --profileManager command line flag), but it's very barebone.

This flag and the UI seems to go back to (at least) Netscape 7 in 2002, btw.

And also about:profiles, with the same caveat.

You can open different profiles by typing about:profiles into the address bar.

https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profile-manager-create-remove...

The most important part of profiles is being able to right-click on a link and open it in a different profile. I don't see that mentioned. I typically have multiple profiles open at once.

Edge has the best implementation where you can define sites opening in certain profiles. Pity ms ruined that browser - it is completely untrustworthy with it auto turning on options such as syncing.