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could the 2nd paragraph of #themes be moved to the history article? -- Quiddity 09:24, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
yep
I don't know if all of the security section belongs in here. It seems to drift away from talking about the features of Firefox.-- Nonpareility 19:06, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
A few things I think need to happen
-- Nonpareility 17:40, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
I agree, particularly with the first point. The whole article just looks like a plug for Firefox. And as for notable features, this definitely needs to be worked on, as most of the features listed here are in other browsers anyway and weren't even invented by Firefox. In my opinion, this article is completely useless (few unique features here, without the features copied by Fx and copied from Fx, there's not enough noteworthy to make a seperate article), but there's no sense deleting it if people are willing to work on it.-- 195.112.40.80 16:53, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
Why does this section keep getting removed? It's incredibly important in determining how good Firefox's security is. It belongs right in the security section, not in the history article. (Perhaps it's poorly named, though. "Vulnerability statistics" might be better).-- Nonpareility 02:33, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
I just corrected the article to state that Firefox borrowed the tabbed browsing concept from the Multizilla extension for Mozilla. The article stated previously that tabbed browsing had come from the Multizilla extension for Seamonkey. This cannot have happened because the original Mozilla suite supported tabbed browsing before either Firefox or Seamonkey branched from it. Quanticle 21:03, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
Firefox customization via UserChrome.css is a feature which could be added to this article :) VTNC 04:05, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
Someone thought it would improve this article to completely remove any mention of the matter that would most interest Firefox users reading this section: That version 2 breaks the tab functioning that millions of 1.5x users expect. And that there is an easy, hidden, way to restore the expected functioning. Please, let's not contaminate our great encyclopedia by making it actually useful. 69.87.193.126 23:13, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
An image with Firefox with a random skin showing a random webpage isn't an appropriate demonstration of tabbed browsing. A zoom-in of Firefox with the default skin showing the default homepage and some other major page would be better.-- Nonpareility 17:24, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
Well many parts of this artical is just advertising of how FireFox features are better than IE, it needs a balance of where it also says problems of the features, not just how they are perfect Af648 00:01, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
I agree that this whole article reads like marketing blurb to me. In response to Localzuk, here's some specific examples of "invalid" comparisons:
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BetacommandBot ( talk) 20:58, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
Regarding these edits, which were disputed here: I removed the anecdote about the Qute theme changeover simply because it has no relevance to the scope of this article. Before editing that portion out, I did do a double-take, not because I was torn on whether it should be included in this article, but because I thought it might have been called into question; I also remember the dispute as it happened, and felt it is a notable event in the development of Firefox, but, again, that's not within the scope of this article.
As for removing the following:
It should be noted that many of the aforementioned features are not unique to Firefox.
This statement is unnecessary. Nowhere in the article is it asserted than any of the features described are unique to Firefox, and it is not likely, nor logical, that anyone default to assuming that would be the case, in the absence of this statement. CSS support is not unique to Firefox. The integrated searchbar is not unique to Firefox. Really? Indeed, this is nothing short of astonishing. This statement was removed because it is unnecessary and stuck out poorly.
Given these explanations, I'll reincorporate my edits. If you feel they aren't adequate reasoning, well, you can just re-revert and we can talk it out. -- 68.94.223.158 ( talk) 18:23, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
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I wonder whether this system would merit a mention. [1] and [2] -- Palosirkka ( talk) 13:03, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
Today I learned that Firefox for Enterprise is a thing. According to Mozilla documentation, it seems the same as a regular Firefox binary, plus additional policies deployed by site administrators. References:
Would like to know whether it’s worth to the article. -- Franklin Yu ( talk) 07:33, 9 July 2020 (UTC)