Is Firefox OK?

Mozilla’s privacy-heavy browser is flatlining but still crucial to future of the web.

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[lithven]

It used to be EXTREMELY personalized and personalizable, right out of the box, even without extensions. Mozilla has systematically REMOVED FUNCTIONALITY from the browser, and I'm not talking about switching from XUL. Personally I don't care if XUL ever comes back. I don't even use many extensions, mostly just uBlock.
A couple of versions ago they took out right-click for image properties! a basic function of browsing since Netscape Navigator and didn't add it back until two more releases. They took away my compact view mode. They foisted less powerful menus on me and removed configurable settings from about:config, the single most powerful customization feature of the core browser.
They keep chasing a new Chrome-like feature or look while killing things I use regularly. I don't want that shit. I want the old customizable feature-rich Firefox experience I had back in the 2.0 days.
So many users eject after each interface overhaul or silent removal of basic functionality and Firefox's trademark customizability. Yet they kept doing it. Madness.

Completely agree. Practically every version it's back to https://www.userchrome.org to figure out how to change the css to get it sort of back to what I had before. It's never perfect but it helps a little.

Another issue I have is the address bar itself. For many years the address bar drop down would show you a list of your most frequently typed in sites and items could be removed easily with the delete key (removed entries would come back if you typed it back in and continued to go there). The important part for me was it was specifically based on addresses you typed into the address bar. Not links you followed, not bookmarks, only what you typed. Now it shows a list of random sites you visit frequently (I guess?) but it's not consistent, the order and entries constantly change randomly even within a single session and between tabs, it seems to be limited to six sites, and it doesn't differentiate between sites I type versus follow links versus use bookmarks versus even my default homepage. The address bar also has a bunch of stuff at the bottom related to different search engines that you have to customize/remove from a new tab page. So, if you have set new tab to blank you can't get to those settings and you have to go back to the default, change the setting, then revert back to a blank page. It's a UI disaster area.