Damned Mozilla just pushed a "Security Update" which drastically screwed up the interface, and "helpfully" rearranged tools and buttons from the way I had them. "Customization" is now a joke. I can't put the Tabs bar where I had it. All kinds of things moved around and resist changing. The online help shows options which do not seem to exist in the actual program.

AVOID 29.0.1 if you like the way you have things in Firefox.
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[QUOTE=kladner;373138]Damned Mozilla just pushed a "Security Update" which drastically screwed up the interface, and "helpfully" rearranged tools and buttons from the way I had them. "Customization" is now a joke. I can't put the Tabs bar where I had it. All kinds of things moved around and resist changing. The online help shows options which do not seem to exist in the actual program.

AVOID 29.0.1 if you like the way you have things in Firefox.
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I'm not at all surprised to find that there's an extension to make 29 look more like the old version: [url]https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/classicthemerestorer/[/url] (though I don't know how well it works)

I reverted my FF version to 22.0 and disabled auto-update after Mozilla made image-display mandatory in 23. (You can still toggle it but now you have to go through the tedium of accessing about:config and digging out the option there. No thanks.)

[QUOTE=Mini-Geek;373152]I'm not at all surprised to find that there's an extension to make 29 look more like the old version: [URL]https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/classicthemerestorer/[/URL] (though I don't know how well it works)[/QUOTE]

Thanks very much for the tip, Tim. I will report back on how well it works.

[QUOTE=ewmayer;373169]I reverted my FF version to 22.0 and disabled auto-update after Mozilla made image-display mandatory in 23. (You can still toggle it but now you have to go through the tedium of accessing about:config and digging out the option there. No thanks.)[/QUOTE]I have gone all the way back to 3.6.28 to get back the JS option tick box, the status bar, a title bar that conforms to the OS preference, a standard menu bar, having http displayed in the URL bar, image animation stopping with the ESC key, tabs that are clearly demarcated, sane memory usage that doesn't keep leaking, etc. FF has gone very far off the rails. Why the drive to make the appearance so different from every other application? Why the drive to hide everything behind more and more clicks? My use of a browser is not because it might look pretty, I use it to get things done in the way I want, without having to hunt down controls like it is some sort of hide-and-seek game.

[QUOTE=kladner;373170]Thanks very much for the tip, Tim. I will report back on how well it works.[/QUOTE]

I have Firefox back to a rough approximation of my previous interface. It was a long and tedious process, though in the end, I got the best results with Theme Restorer.

Thing is, one should not have to go through such antics, and especially not for a stealth update masquerading as a "Security Update."

[QUOTE=kladner;373181]I have Firefox back to a rough approximation of my previous interface. It was a long and tedious process, though in the end, I got the best results with Theme Restorer.

Thing is, one should not have to go through such antics, and especially not for a stealth update masquerading as a "Security Update."[/QUOTE]

The security update was probably 29.0.1...or not. I don't know.
[url]http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/releases/[/url]

[QUOTE=kracker;373182]The security update was probably 29.0.1...or not. I don't know.
[URL]http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/releases/[/URL][/QUOTE]

That is the version toward which I am expressing extreme displeasure. The link you give does show a very large number of other things before we get to "Security fixes".

It seems that most of the interface mischief occurs with the orange-tagged "New" items. The descriptions are replete with words like "significant, sleek, easy access."

Unfortunately, [QUOTE]Significant new customization mode makes it easy to personalize your Web experience to access the features you use the most[/QUOTE]translates as, "we just cut out a bunch of stuff and simplified your browsing experience by eliminating features and arrangements you rely on, and rearranging your entire window so that you will reflexively click in certain places which transport you to the realms of Russian brides, Canadian pharmacies, or some combination thereof, instead of "new tab" or "refresh page."

EDIT: Currently at 28.0, and things look normal again

The number of eponyms in medicine. Learning disease names (once you get into triple digits) is a major hassle when a disease is attached to someone's name and not something that is more descriptive. There are some where it is convenient and you never forget (Gilbert, Huntington's, Fabry's, Crigler-Najjar, Goodpasture, Alport, Niemann-Pick, Tay-Sachs, Fanconi's syndrome and Fanconi's anemia, Paget's, Cushing's, Tetrology of Fallot, Alzheimer's, VHL, Bardet-Biedl, Grave's, Lynch, Kaposi, Sheehan, Prader-Willi, Kruckenberg, Hirschsprung, Creutzfeldt-Jakob...) but there are many others where it is far more difficult because they are less common/more obscure/why do so many medical scientists have an ego? It's much easier to remember descriptive names like "hyperammonemia" or "panhypopituitarism" and then remember subtypes.

[QUOTE=Primeinator;373190]...
why do so many medical scientists have an ego?
...[/QUOTE]More often than not it is not the scientist that first reports about a condition that gives it a name. Then some diseases are given the name of the patient on which it was discovered and not that of the person who described it...
Jacob

[QUOTE=kladner;373189]...
EDIT: Currently at 28.0, and things look normal again
...[/QUOTE]The Classic theme restorer does work, some of the necessary options are not clearly labelled so one has to experiment a bit.I don't know why Firefow went the way of IE and Chrome (ever had some (malware) add-on in Chrome ? There is no way to uninstall it : I tried all the very few configuration pages and found nothing. In the end the user allowed me to uninstall it.)

What is needed is feed back to Firefox : tell them that you want to be able to have the old type of interface back. If no one bothers to complain they will go ahead.
Jacob