• @nycki
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    8 months ago

    Firefox had tab grouping first. Before Chrome. And then it broke support for it when they did the add-ons overhaul. I’m surprised bringing it back wasn’t a high priority…

    • @then_three_more
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      338 months ago

      Achutucally Opera had it first, back before it ditched Presto.

    • @theedqueen
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      238 months ago

      I remember those days. I was so sad when it went away.

    • @MrOtherGuy
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      88 months ago

      IIRC the old tab groups feature was eventually removed because telemetry showed that only very few people used it…

      • @[email protected]
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        538 months ago

        That’s because us power users know to turn the telemetry off and also have it blocked on our network.

        • @MrOtherGuy
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          218 months ago

          Right, but then you shouldn’t be shocked to find out that a feature was removed because nobody seemed to be using it.

          • @grue
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            68 months ago

            No, I expect Mozilla to know their market and use other means (like focus groups or surveys or something) to figure out which features are actually popular, instead of lazily using a bad metric.

            • Carighan Maconar
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              8 months ago

              Mozilla knows their market. Because of said telemetry.

              How do you think that works? For any other app?

              Hint:

              (like focus groups or surveys or something)

              Not like this. Because they have both shown to be absolutely terrible for this general market preference research.

              • @grue
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                8 months ago

                Did you miss the part of the conversation where folks were pointing out that lots of users turn the telemetry off?

                Your reply is as tone-deaf and non-responsive as sticking your fingers in your ears and yelling “nuh uh!” like a toddler.

                If you want to be persuasive you’ve got to prove that the telemetry is somehow useful in spite of many users turning it off, and you’ve done absolutely fuck-all to argue that.

                • Carighan Maconar
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                  78 months ago

                  You are committing the same mistake as you accuse me of:

                  many users turning it off

                  [citation needed] [how many?]

                  For all you know, maybe the 15 very vocal users in here are the only ones who turn it off. Or do we know that many users do it? How many? 5%? 50%? 95%?

                  • JackbyDev
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                    48 months ago

                    Many programs differente between “personalized ad” telemetry and “help us improve our program” telemetry. I generally leave the second on.

                  • @grue
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                    -18 months ago

                    That’s why Mozilla has to use other means to find out!

                    Thanks for proving my point for me.

      • Carighan Maconar
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        98 months ago

        Watching people use Chrome, fucking nobody uses it there either, except for work situations where on FF, you’re supposed to be using Multi-Account containers anyways.

      • @[email protected]
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        48 months ago

        It didn’t help that they hid the button in the customize menu and made the feature not discoverable.

      • dantheclammanOP
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        18 months ago

        I used Panorama a lot. Was sad when it went away