The policies of ramming stuff down the throat in order to please a mythical user (and failing) are still at full swing at Mozilla.
Now they are removing their strong advantage (extensions) in order to improve their weakness (perceived speed) at full speed. I fully expect them to succeed at first and fail at the second, bleeding users in the process.
List of misfeatures off the top of my head, in rough order of annoyance:
* Australis GUI (Chrome clone) [1]
* Loss of tabs on bottom (Chrome has this issue too) [1]
* Ads on home screen [2]
* Forced integration of extensions I don't want (Hello, Pocket) [3]
* Plans to kill XUL extensions and instead use awful Chrome extensions
* Forced code signing to install extensions (Chrome has problems here too)
* Support of EME, or DRM (Chrome has this issue, too) [4]
* Bloated dropdown list of matched sites when typing in URL bar [5]
* Removal of option to not keep download history [6]
* Burying of countless options (like Javascript permissions) into about:config
[1] I won't even be able to use Classic Theme Restorer once XUL extension support is removed.
[2] I hear these may be gone now, but that it was ever implemented concerns me. I do not want adware in any software I use.
[3] I hear Hello is gone, but Pocket is still there.
[4] I don't care about Netflix. Mozilla betrayed their promise of an open web by caving on this front.
[5] It used to take one line per match. Now it has this multi-line mess that takes up far more screen space to display the exact same amount of information. Oldbar extension restores this, but will break like Classic Theme Restorer soon.
[6] unless I also turn off no browsing history. But I want browsing history. There used to even be an about:config option you could add (browser.download.retention) to restore this behavior, but they removed it.
Overall, it's just the complete and utter disregard by the Firefox dev team for their user base. Every single issue I've mentioned has had lots of bug/feature requests, begging the developers for options to do things the old way. All of them shot down completely.
If Firefox wants to keep turning itself into Chrome, then I might as well use Chrome. At least Chrome is faster and doesn't ship with Pocket.
However, given that Mozilla is hellbent on breaking all addons (really the only thing they have going for them) because newer is better or something, I can't really blame anyone for deciding their time is too valuable for staying with a demonstrably insecure browser with questionable development direction.
I've been using Firefox as my main browser for a while but will most likely switch to Chrome soon. It's laggy and loads some common sites very slowly (eg Amazon). That's with e10s enabled and only a few common extensions that, in theory, should make it faster (uBlock, NoScript).
I really want to stick with FF but when text fields lag and Amazon pages take 10 sec to load it's just not a good choice.
