kbrosnan

No, simpler software is not accepted by the general public. For a few years Firefox rejected EME/Widevine. When Netflix does not work then they will just use a browser that works.

First initial last name at gMail is one.

It is the MZLA Technologies Corporation a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation. Firefox is developed by the Mozilla Corporation a wholly owned part of the Mozilla Foundation.

I regularly have doppelgangers that sign up for services with my email address.

I've been added to door/visitor notifications. I have received medical information for them. Retirement package info. A telecom internal tracker. A Doubleclick account for a while. Lessons for their children. Countless rewards accounts.

That is the Oath Verizon/Yahoo search contract settlement.

That is more or less how Thunderbird works. Donations fund a development. Members of the community elect the Thunderbird Council. It would take a huge rework of MoCo (Firefox, Sync, VPN, etc) to function in that way.

Tabs state management is simpler and more battle tested. Split pane browsers will need to relearn some of the same problems/security found when tabed browsing was introduced. They will have unique problems/security as well. I would be interested to see how split pane browsers deal with focus stealing JS especially with timeouts or other shenanigans.

OS window managers do a better job of that. Split view inside the browser has some thorny issues around making sure the user knows what resource they are interacting with. There is a lot of complexity when it comes to focus/blur in HTML, CSS, JS, etc.

Ctrl + right click may allow you to work around it.

The paper is from 2012 if the visualization is from that era JS makes sense.

There is no need to go to about:config.

Firefox 3 dot menu -> Settings -> Accessibility -> Zoom on all websites