If this is against the rules, feel free to delete, mods. I really do appreciate everything the Firefox devs have done... and I know it must be hard making money off of OSS. I've been a Firefox user ever since NETSCAPE FREAKING 3.0. Yes, Netscape more or less led to Mozilla Browser Suite, which led to Phoenix-->later Firebird-->later Firefox and I was there every damn step of the way singing your praises to everyone would hear me. I was telling people about your popup blocking back when popups were ruining everything. I was telling them about Adblock plus when that became a thing. I thought Chrome was overrated as all hell and I told people that Firefox was clearly better, even as you sought to turn the thing into a Chrome clone.

But.

I just switched to Waterfox this morning and couldn't be happier. So far the UX seems to be EXACTLY like Firefox except:

• it doesn't phone home your data to Mozilla (or anyone else)

• it supports unsigned extensions (maybe there's a way to turn this off somewhere if you're particularly paranoid about security. Me, I basically trust myself to not be stupid.)

• it supports legacy extensions that Firefox no longer supports (I have self destructing cookies again! Woo!) which are available with manual install or builtin if you install this extension

• it doesn't have the proprietary Pocket

• it doesn't lock you out of changing some settings in about:config.

That last one is important because apparently there was a workaround for this bug, but people were reporting that it work for them because they're starting to prevent you from changing certain about:config settings in some builds. This is ridiculous! Why would I want to have this padded-corner Fischer Price crap, a browser designed for morons? The whole point of Firefox used to be choice, control and customizability. If I wanted Chrome I would've installed Chrome.

Enough is enough. Installed Waterfox, found out it's (almost) everything that I wished Firefox still was, couldn't be happier. It doesn't have this bug, but even if it had suffered the bug, I could've fixed it in about:config on all of my family's boxen instead of finding out that the hood was welded shut. Hopefully the Firefox devs will get the message some day. Until then, I'm out.