I appreciate your feedback and understand. For situations like this, we recommend the Firefox ESR to avoid getting changes like this as they are being implemented.
But yeah, we are making changes for change sake to make Firefox better and more modern. There's a major reorganization of all the menus coming. Mike On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 12:30 PM Thane K. Sherrington < [email protected]> wrote: > Mike, my complaint (and the complaint I get from my clients) is the lack > of Simplify Printing. I get that it's "coming soon" but that's not the > way to roll out a brand new printing system. Finish it, then roll it out. > The regular complaints I get about Firefox changes is "too many changes to > UI" and "they removed feature X". It's great to get feature X back later, > but by the time that happens, you will have lost a percentage of your > users, and they may not come back. > > For Firefox to succeed it needs three things - more and more speed (nobody > likes waiting) and compatibility with websites (I'm hearing more and more > about "this site doesn't work in Firefox" from clients), and more > security/privacy (the raison d'être of Firefox. > > It sort of seems like Firefox is making UI changes for the sake of making > changes. Changing the UI creates friction which creates frustration among > end-users. UI changes should be very few and far between. The new > printing system looks prettier than the old one, but it's less functional, > and it requires relearning. > > Sorry to gripe, but I'm a massive Firefox fan and I push it to all my > clients. Recently, I'm getting more and more push back for the above > reasons. > > At the very least, when you make a UI change like this that is missing > features in it's initial release, put a very obvious button that says "Want > the old version back? Click Here." > > Thane K. Sherrington > > Computer Connection, Ltd. ...taking the mystery out of computers since > 1982. > Winner of the 2012 Ian Spencer - Excellence in Business Award > *Thanks for making us the Reader's Choice Best Computer Store in 2016, > 2017, 2018 and 2019!* > 95 College St., Antigonish, > NS B2G 1X6 > 902-863-3361 (phone) > 902-863-2580 (fax) > [email protected] > On 26/02/2021 4:43 p.m., Mike Kaply wrote: > > There's more information about it in our release notes: > > https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/86.0/releasenotes/ > > There is a preference to turn it off right now (print.tab_modal.enabled), > but that preference will be going away in the near future. That preference > can be managed via policy. > > Personally, I love it. Much more usable than our old printing stuff (which > honestly hadn't been updated in 10+ years). > > If there's stuff you need, please open bugs > <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Toolkit&component=Printing>. > Duplex and Simplify Printing mode should hopefully land in this Nightly > release, which are a couple of the most requested features we’re lacking. > > Mike > > On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 4:53 PM Martin Feuerstein < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Mike Kaply, can you tell us something about this change? Is there a group >> policy to keep the classic print dialogue? Thank you very much! >> >> Viele Grüße, Martin Feuerstein >> >> [image: umwelt]Bitte denken Sie über Ihre Verantwortung gegenüber der >> Umwelt nach, bevor Sie diese E-Mail ausdrucken. >> >> >> >> *Feed:* AskVG >> *Bereitgestellt am:* Donnerstag, 25. Februar 2021 10:17 >> *Autor:* VG >> *Betreff:* [Tip] Restore Classic Print Preview Dialog Box UI in Mozilla >> Firefox >> >> >> >> SUMMARY: This article will help you in disabling the new modern Print >> Preview UI and restoring old classic Print Preview dialog box in Mozilla >> Firefox web browser. In newer versions of Mozilla Firefox web browser, you >> might have noticed that… >> >> Read the full article at AskVG.com >> >> >> Artikel anzeigen... >> <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AskVG/~3/2F429zRBQpc/> >> _______________________________________________ >> Enterprise mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise >> >> To unsubscribe from this list, please visit >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise or send an email to >> [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe" >> > > _______________________________________________ > Enterprise mailing > [email protected]https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise > > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise or send an email to > [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe" > > > _______________________________________________ > Enterprise mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise > > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise or send an email to > [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe" >
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