Firefox users criticized the permanent ‘List All Tabs’ button introduced in version 131.0, leading Mozilla to make it removable.
The button, designed to manage hidden tabs and prevent add-ons from hiding them, received backlash for being unnecessary alongside Firefox View.
Mozilla responded with a fix in version 131.0.3, allowing users to remove the button through toolbar customization.
… who the hell are these special users that Firefox apparently pander to, and what mass of people do they constitute to make them so powerful?
More importantly, how do I join this special club?
It’s probably the nature of the change, too.
- It’s easy to add a switch to disable the button.
- It doesn’t cut into their bottom line.
- It’s damn good PR.
Other stuff that people have been complaining about, like the massive backlash against baking in 3rd-party AI, won’t make the cut.
Relatively benign things like tab grouping are challenging, so despite being much more popular, the easier-to-implement AI features were given a fast pass to Release versions of Firefox.
That never bugged me too much, but I’ll at least be glad it can be disabled for people who really dislike it.
Agreed. Being able to customize all elements of the top bar is one of the great things about Firefox.
I don’t see a reason why it shouldn’t be possible to remove newly added elements. Even the “Open a new tab” button can be removed, as well as the recently added “View recent browsing across windows and devices” button.
Holy crap, Firefox actually listened to it’s users? Is Earth out of orbit or something???
kinda funny, though… the functionality has been there for awhile. just flying under the radar with a less-noticeable icon.
the problem is probably actually that it consumed additional space, instead of being kept on the new tab button’s right click menu
It was there and “consumed space”. It was just a less noticeable icon before (dark grey downwards-facing chevron).
