• @PP44@lemmy.ml
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    62 years ago

    Did I understand correctly ? Is this a customiszation feature that will be deliberately not available any more to users ? While still being implemented under the hood and taking space in a dedicated menu ? How is this good news for users ?

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      2 years ago

      They’re just dicking about for marketing purposes and to give a soft introduction to Firefox’s customizability for non-technical users.

      You can still install thousands of themes from https://addons.mozilla.org and do even more customization with a userChrome.css file, if you need it.

      I’m also guessing, they simply install a theme-addon for whichever Colorway the user selected, so it doesn’t use some special implementation, it’s just the usual extension API.

      So, they’re only really removing the splash screen that would show up after upgrades or on new Firefox installations. The actual customizability is not reduced.

      • @PP44@lemmy.ml
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        12 years ago

        So you mean all those themes will still be easily accessible to anyone who wants it ? Then the phrasing is terrible ! They make it sound like they want to create artificial rarity which in itself is to my eyes against free software spirit altogether !

        • Ephera
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          12 years ago

          I’m not sure, they intended it to sound like that. My interpretation was that they just didn’t want to have this going on forever, as (at least to me) that pop-up did start to get annoying, but then they also didn’t either want to take away people’s favorite theme, so they decided to have users keep that when upgrading.

          Then again, maybe they did intend it to sound like that for marketing purposes, because undeniably people are talking about Firefox.

          In any case, I think, Colorways should be seen as a marketing move, for promoting either Firefox itself or for promoting that you can theme Firefox.

          As for all these Colorway themes still being accessible, that’s the one thing where I would’ve done things differently. I would’ve liked it, if they provided an add-on collection with all the Colorway themes downloadable from addons.mozilla.org.
          Then they could’ve gone "Oops, Colorway themes are gone, but did you know that Firefox was extremely themable all along? If you miss some of the Colorways, you can install them from $ADDON_COLLECTION and do explore the many other themes our awesome users have created.”.

    • @const_void@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      Yeah. Never understood the advantage over themes. Hell, I don’t understand why you’d want to theme/colorway your browser at all. I just want my browser to match the system theming.

      • Ephera
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        12 years ago

        It’s targeting noob users, who may not know about theme add-ons.

        I also assume, they had Windows users in mind…

        • …who may be surprised of the customization option. It’s not as common on Windows that applications allow theming.
        • …where there is not really a “system theme” to match. It’s a mess anyways, so why not make Firefox look the way you like it?
        • …who may spend their entire day just in Firefox. So, Firefox’s theme might effectively be their “system theme”.
  • Marxism-Fennekinism
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    2 years ago

    Dear Firefox, please shoving this crap in my face. Nobody cares and everybody wants you to stop wasting development hours on it.