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I started using Mozilla Firefox 1.04 many years ago. Everytime a new update was released I was so excited to install it, as the browser became better and better with each update. I remember when Firefox 2.0 was released and I could not wait for it to be available in the Debian package repository, because it was such a big improvement.

Now I absolutely HATE when a update is released, because either functionality is removed, appearance is changed or even more bloat has been added.

Firefox itself has become the problem it tried to solve.



What in this release would you class as functionality removal, appearance changes or added bloat?


This is in the the bloat category:

Added a built-in Emoji set for operating systems without native Emoji fonts (Windows 8.0 and lower and Linux)


Do you prefer that web pages using Emoji not render as expected for people on Linux and Windows XP/Vista/7/8?


Do you think that's a useless feature though? Seeing squares all over the internet isn't exactly a good experience, finding the right font sets to fix your emoji problem can be tricky on Linux too

EDIT: just got the update and it a) fixed some emojis I somehow didn't have, namely "thinking face", which is of course critically important and b) made the rest look a lot livelier.


I'll take squares over emojis any day.




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