Mozilla Plans To Remove Support For Firefox Complete Themes

Posted by timothy on Thursday November 12, 2015 @09:03AM from the too-much-freedom dept.

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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Can I get just a browser? by gstoddart · 2015-11-12 09:20 · Score: 4, Interesting

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.

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