Mozilla Plans To Remove Support For Firefox Complete Themes

AmiMoJo writes: Mozilla's engineers have announced the removal of Firefox complete themes as a way to lighten the browser core and remove a feature they don't see as heavily used any more. "Personas", or lightweight themes that are basically just wallpaper images, will remain. The Firefox community did not respond well to this piece of news, most seeing it as the engineers "chromifying Firefox." The change is part of Mozilla's Great-or-Dead initiative, which plans to simplify the Firefox codebase and remove features that are not popular.

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Storm in a glas of water

[prefec2]

Really, themes are an important feature? I hardly ever configure something in my browser so it looks different. I might do so if I find something annoying, like this chat thing they included several releases ago. I want a working browser. It should be fast and stable. And I want to share bookmarks and the keyring in a save way between all my accounts. True the tool should be able to use the icons of the specific host OS or UI framework, but beyond that. I do not see the need of some extra theming stuff.

Re:Storm in a glas of water

[gstoddart]

Does "basically want Chrome then" mean "don't want a browser which tries to put 10 pounds of shit in a 5 pound bag"?

Because the answer is overwhelmingly "oh hell yes".

If Firefox is differentiating itself by adding features most people don't want or use, they're doing it wrong.

So many features added to browsers these days leave me immediately thinking "How do I disable this crap?".

Can I get just a browser?

[gstoddart]

Can I get a version which doesn't have social network tie-ins, isn't a mail client, doesn't have its own chat, make it easy to block ads and other crap, doesn't spy on me, and doesn't otherwise think it's going to be the center of my damned universe?

Because that would be awesome.

Probably never gonna happen, but it would be awesome.