You probably look at tabs as something inherently transient. In my tab group powered workflow a lot of tabs are persistent between browser restarts and stay open at all times. To try to formalize it, there is a set of core tabs that are permanently open, and there are transient tabs are opened and closed from those core tabs. Before tab groups I used "Tree Style Tab" extension but I like tab groups more. It's especially cool tab groups are integrated well with containers so that you can have for example I2P tab group tied to I2P container configured to use I2P proxy port to automatically browse all tabs opened within group through your I2P proxy port.

They are all out of date, updates just take longer to arrive including security patches. Just use base Firefox and configure it as needed.

I haven't used it and it is enabled in about:config for me.

Not to mention that constantly having to turn off crap is still awful UX

Isn't the "for-profit" Mozilla Corporation owned by the "non-profit" Mozilla Foundation though?

Have you used the tab groups?

I've been using LibreWolf for a while and it works pretty well

The point is you shouldnt have to turn it off, its a web browser, we want to browse the web, not be subject to whatever shite Mozilla want to force into it. Features like this should be optional plugins you have to download.

Well this is obviously personal to some degree, but for me it would be to fix bugs, don't crash, dont make me restart after an update and lose my incognito tabs, focus on being w3c compliant, block ads, maybe allow blocking annoying cookie banners and maybe allow good keyboard navigation. I like some features other browsers have, such as integrated tor browsing - but since I am not a big fan of bloat, I'm not sure whether that should be handled outside of the browser

No, I haven't used tab groups. At least not beyond an initial peek when they were introduced. They're no replacement or useful addition to my vertical hierarchical tabs (Tree Style Tab extension).

I am using LibreWolf. It's probably the best fork out there.

I switched to FF after having enough of Chrome's shenanigans. I don't make changes easily, and I took the sacrifice of not being able to receive calls over Facebook (desktop browser, and some of my acquaintances wouldn't leave FB), and I still preferred Firefox after that.

And now they want to turn it into another Chrome? I could still just use Chrome and have the lost functionality. I mean I won't, but they will just lose users with that direction.

I want my cou to be idle all the time! Damn it why did I spend so much on a CPU only for it to "do work"? FFS.

could be, I can't judge that. do you have any source for that info or is it based on an assumption?

You can literally do it through the menu. Go to settings, hit labs or search "ai" and untick it

why shouldn't you have the option to turn things off? try turning off the ai features in chrome.

That RAM is mint condition collectors edition RAM. We're just storing it there temporarily.

Don't you dare fucking touch it.

Why not add this features as browser extension?

On my pixel 6 pro it takes a few seconds before I can start typing in the browser.

Firefox has always been resource heavy. Try having multiple streams open at the same time... The browser just takes a shit.

If you want something much lighter and more stable waterfox is the way to go.