Firefox you have to be kidding!

Due to a banking issue, I just downloaded and fired up the newest version of Firefox. 

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I’ll grant you it’s been a long time since I used the product. I’ve been using Safari quite happily for many years now. 

However since my financial institution has seen fit to not make their online bill pay application compatible with the default browser installed on every Mac running Mountain Lion (The newest OS from Apple) I’ve had to resort to loading yet another browser so that I can access the banking web site that I’d been using for years.

Of course the bank also completely changed their site (for my convenience, and security) which is part of what caused the problem in the first place.

So now I’m looking at Firefox, I’ve already stumbled across something that I and apparently a lot of other people REALLY don’t like.

When you open a new tab, you get to see a list of your top sites. Safari does this too but you can turn it off and simply have it open a new tab that displays your selected home page. 

In my case that page is Google.

Apparently in Firefox you can’t.

Yes, you can hide the top hits, but opening a new tab simply gives you a blank page.

If you’d like to have your home page displayed, you have to download and then of course maintain one of Firefoxes extensions/apps.

REALLY????

These guys actually thought that was a good solution?

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Wow…

Usually, when I open a new tab, it’s because I WANT TO SEARCH the web. Therefore opening to a Google search page makes all the sense in the world. After all If I want to open a bookmark, or a link on a displayed page I’ll hit the right mouse button or control click. 

If I’m opening a blank tab… it’s because I’m expecting to do a search. And NO that little bullshit text entry field on the upper right hand portion of the page isn’t what I want to use or even see.

From the information I’ve been able to gather doing searches ON THE WEB… This change has been an issue for at least the past 10 months

REALLY?

In 10 months they couldn’t be bothered to add a simple Case statement that said 

Top_Sites ==0

New_Tab==homepage

Instead they want everyone to add bloatware to the browser to get something that virtually everyone had come to rely as default behavior.

WOW! The arrogance of developers truly knows no boundaries.