On Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:13:07 +1200, Peter Reutemann quoted:
Long-time Slashdot reader Z00L00K thinks that "All those totally unnecessary UI changes are what REALLY annoys users..."
Here <https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/04/waterfox_firefox_fork/> is another good analysis of the range of options available. Basically, as soon as Mozilla decided to abandon the XUL UI engine, other developers stepped in to fill the breach. Further back, when the “Australis” theme was introduced, another fork went off to keep the old theme. Still like classic-style browser extensions? There’s a fork for that, too. And if you still pine for the original do-everything “Netscape” browser with integrated e-mail, IRC, and web authoring (from which Firefox was originally born by getting rid of the bloat), that’s still available, believe it or not. As I (and no doubt others) have said before, the health of an open-source project doesn’t depend on the sheer number of passive users, but on the level of active contributions from the community. The former may be what makes it visible, but the latter is what keeps it alive.