7mo ago

Mozilla wants users to take part in a survey about browser features

connect.mozilla.org Your Feedback Matters: Take Our Survey on Browser Features!

Hello Mozilla Connect Community, I’m Chance York, a User Researcher on the Firefox User Research team. I’m reaching out because our team has created a survey to gather opinions on a handful of browser features, some of which were suggested previously on Mozilla Connect. Your feedback on this survey...

Direct link: https://qsurvey.mozilla.com/s3/413b49c8ae9e

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7mo ago

Mozilla wants users to take part in a survey about browser features

connect.mozilla.org /t5/discussions/your-feedback-matters-take-our-survey-on-browser-features/td-p/64040

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No lie most of those features sound like a bad idea.
- Not all of them, there were a couple that were really appealing. I would especially love the ability to get metrics and data on sites and trackers I've blocked in a nice dashboard.
  
  Keyboard operated control and site specific extension were appealing to me
  
  I'd love to be able to snyc everything (all settings, including user.js, etc.; all extensions and all of their configuration; all visual changes, including userChrome.css and additional files; all website configurations, including all cookies). Basically a 1:! copy of the user profile directory.
  This won't happen, though.
  
  Don't most ad blockers have this feature.

Crappy choices. One basically is forced to like a third of the ideas presented, even though 90% is garbage. And even worse, sometimes they hand you not just one, but two or three shit sandwiches on a page, and you can only dislike one, AND you actually have to like one to proceed.
And at the end an unskippable question I'm not going to answer, so I closed the tab.
- Yeah, what kind of bullshit survey format was that? I guess that format has its uses, but the way Mozilla is using it here is awful, awful, awful. I didn't finish it. What happened to the 1 to 5 stars, points or whatevs?

They could name this "Please select least annoying feature".

A couple screenshots so people can see what kind of question s there are:
- I wonder who cooked this page up, with forcing at least one (mostly stupid) idea into the "Want most" list. Some pages have three bad ideas, so one has to find the worst, and even promote the least shitty one.
- Pocket! Wow! I love Pocket!
  
  Pocket is decent but I haven't used it in years and definitely don't want it to be a Dev priority

What a dogshit survey, there were maybe 3-4 thigs I'd actually be interested in (vertical tabs, better sync, better search engine management) It's built to confirm some manager's bias 1000% and push AI slop, which will just end up wasting Mozilla's limited funding. Also loved the "Pocket good!" Angle some of the pages forced you into as well.

It's harder to remember that Mozilla is the champion for good and pure Internet when their survey seems to look so plasticky corporate that it could have come from a Republican.
And also when they killed their own namesake product because it was too hard.

I finished it and all it shows is this:
Feels good to have made firefox 100% better! /s
No need to thank me... ok, some thanks would improve my day a bit but only if you want to.

The german translation was absolutely strange.
Belgium, Switzerland, Austria not choosable??
"Convert Important Websites like GMail into Apps?" Why this weird example?
In some categories all were more important than the points in otger categories
- One choice I got was "halving the speed of the browser".
  
  I got that one too. Either a way to test if users are paying attention or, or... I don't know. Mistranslation? It was a bullshit option. Insulting, even.
  
  Me too! I have no idea what that was supposed to mean but clicked "highest priority" just for the lolz
- That was a feature they removed.
  Some WebApps are only available as websites and don't have a native counterpart.
  I'd personally like this feature to come back so I can use those WebApps without having to have other browser-things clutter the UI (like multiple tabs, url bar, etc.) and aren't needed when you only want to open one webapp.
  
  Yes I know about PWAs and I am a big supporter. I even experimented with some userchrome.css to emulate a webapp experience, tried the older extension and webapp manager, and the newer "Quick Webapps" by elevenhsoft, and the experience is not really nice.
  Used Element web as a Chromium webapp and while not perfect (for example no way to open links with the OS default browser) it is really good.
  I just found it odd for Firefox to use GMail as an example, as people using GMail would probably also use Chrome.
- Probably talking about PWAs, I imagine.
  
  Yup

Twice as fast as your current browser
Tools to monitor and manage browser power, battery, and memory usage
Ability to customize your privacy, permissions, accessibility, and display settings on a site-by-site basis
Pick one that you want the most and one that you want the least.
I want all 3 though..
This survey is annoying.
- Or they are trying to create a feasible dev pipeline based on user feedback.
  
  I completely understand that. I just find them equally important and wish I didn't have to rank them.
  I would've preferred all questions listed at once and letting me rank them from most desired to least desired.

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