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0 pointslucb1e11mo ago0 comments

Sadly they dropped XUL some years ago. I stuck to that version for all the customizations it allowed, but became untenable and it was clear I couldn't run a browser from 2017 for the next 50 years so I bit the bullet. I'm now also on webextensions instead of real add-ons

Yet it's still more customizable for users than Chrome/ium is. That there is a particular customization they got rid of is a shame and what you mention in the sibling comment (only works in some contexts) bothers me every day when I try to use mouse gestures on a settings page or mozilla domain and it refuses to work, but those new limitations don't make the statement untrue as a whole

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eviks11mo ago· 2 in thread

Firefox is less customizable than Chromium-based Vivaldi, so the statement is still not true

lucb1eOP11mo ago

the 'based' does the heavy lifting there. I said Firefox (the browser) not Gecko (the engine). I'm sure you can customize everything in either browser (or engine) if you download the source and recompile it with the modifications you like, or even hex edit the binary, go wild. But I'm sure you know what is meant...

eviks11mo ago

> But I'm sure you know what is meant...

Not really, you've explicitly said this

> Yet it's still more customizable for users than Chrome/ium is

And then rejected the fitting comparison: Firefox (the browser) is not more customizable than Chromium-Vivaldi (the browser)

I also don't see how the engine used for page rendering is relevant when discussing UI

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