It’s hilarious when Windows 8 proponents say that “Windows 8 is easy, just learn these 120 keyboard shortcuts, and it’s like nothing ever changed!”

I’ve worked with users a long time. Know how many keyboard shortcuts the average user knows? Zero. Yes, that’s right, the average users knows zero keyboard shortcuts.

“Advanced” users know two: CTRL-C and CTRL-V. Really advanced users know one more: CTRL-X. The most advanced user in the office might know one more, and that’d be either CTRL-P or if you have a really super-advanced mega-educated user they might know Windows Key+D. (I’ve only run into two of those out of a few thousand users, though.)

So yes, obviously telling a regular user to learn a few dozen keyboard shortcuts to navigate a crap interface is an extremely viable option as you can see.

And it’s basically impossible to use custom fonts anymore because of this stupidity.

Glad I will be mostly taking a break from the web for a while very soon as it has become nearly unusable to anyone with an IQ above that of an apple pie.

Why is FF 25 Find feature harder to use?

Unsurprisingly, the new search “feature” in Firefox 25 is nearly impossible to use. Echoing the changes in Windows Vista and 7 of making search nearly unusable, the same has been inflicted on Firefox.

Why would you ever do something like this?

Luckily, you can use this with Stylish to mostly unfuck that Mozilla UI atrocity which, by the way, violates Fitt’s Law and several other major usability guidelines. And I found this that you can use to disable the useless animation, just insert it in that Stylish style somewhere:

findbar {
transition: none !important;
}

I think I am using somewhere around 70 extensions, tweaks and hacks now to get Firefox to work as it should — i.e., features that have been removed to make it work more like Chrome, or to be phone- and tablet-friendly. Or just taken away altogether in some attempt to have a browser that actually does nothing.

By the way Mozilla devs, if I wanted to use a tablet browser on my fucking desktop I’d pick up my fucking tablet.