Long-time Slashdot reader Z00L00K thinks that "All those totally unnecessary UI changes are what REALLY annoys users..."
I doubt it. Because Firefox is open source; if anybody really cared about such things, we would see a fork offering precisely that option by now.
Besides, the health of an open source project never depended on sheer numbers of passive users: what has always been important has been the strength of contributions from the community.
Yes and no. In case of Mozilla, those passive users generate money due to Mozilla's global search collaborations, which feeds into the development of Firefox: https://www.feedough.com/mozilla-business-model/ Unfortunately, a complex piece of software like Firefox is not easily maintained (status quo) or further developed (adding new features) using a purely hobbyist basis. Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 (office) +64 (7) 577-5304 (home office) http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/