Mozilla is reportedly trying to reduce the number of less-used features of Firefox and make the browser junk-free. With this vision in mind, the company is cutting off two unpopular Firefox features namely Tab Groups and Complete Themes.
Tab Groups was introduced back in 2011 to help users deal with large number of tabs. The idea was to take a bunch of websites and group them together like a folder. Although it might have been useful but Mozilla announced that actually very few users were using that feature and so it decided to kill it off.
Another Firefox feature which will be removed by Mozilla is complete themes. The complete themes, when installed, can overhaul pretty much every aspect of Firefox’s user interface. However with the end of complete themes in Firefox, lightweight themes will not also be dumped. These themes simply add color or an image to the top of the Firefox window and will remain as they are or might gain some extra functionality but that will be limited.
These two changes which will be coming to Firefox soon will affect only a very small group of users who use these functionalities. However the change might definitely go a long way for Firefox to compete with other browsers in the market.
Tab Groups was introduced back in 2011 to help users deal with large number of tabs. The idea was to take a bunch of websites and group them together like a folder. Although it might have been useful but Mozilla announced that actually very few users were using that feature and so it decided to kill it off.
Another Firefox feature which will be removed by Mozilla is complete themes. The complete themes, when installed, can overhaul pretty much every aspect of Firefox’s user interface. However with the end of complete themes in Firefox, lightweight themes will not also be dumped. These themes simply add color or an image to the top of the Firefox window and will remain as they are or might gain some extra functionality but that will be limited.
These two changes which will be coming to Firefox soon will affect only a very small group of users who use these functionalities. However the change might definitely go a long way for Firefox to compete with other browsers in the market.
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