Distribution of Enhancer stopped for Firefox on AMO, GG Mozilla!
Once again, YouTube has introduced new UI changes that break the extension, and after much consideration, I’ve made the difficult decision to stop distributing new versions for Firefox.
Why? The system in place has not allowed me to work at the pace required to keep the extension running smoothly. Not only the developer experience has become awful, but the slow and unpredictable review process for each new version kills all my efforts to fix bugs quickly. So, as long as nothing changes on AMO, there won't be any new version for Firefox...
But, for those of you who are not yet affected by the new UI changes on YouTube, and those of you who never had any issue with the latest version of Enhancer, here is a link to it if you need to reinstall it on Firefox: enhancer_for_youtube-2.0.130.1.xpi
For security reasons, I highly recommend you to never install another package! This one has been signed by Mozilla and is 100% secure.
My extension is only for Chrome and Edge now. If you are using Firefox, Brave, Opera, or anything else, do not contact me to report issues as I don't provide support for those browsers...
I think this is a common issue with open source software, except when it comes to GNOME/GTK/Libadwaita apps. For some reason, GNOME apps almost always manage to look good.
Libadawaita apps look good as graphic design, but at the cost of usability. KDE apps (real Qt, not Kirigami) always have some standout icons, mismatched margins or strange styling decisions, but all the features are more or less where you'd expect them to be and, more importantly, they actually have all those features because they weren't cut for the sake of design.
Frankly Gnome apps are very strange. Things are hidden in weird menus in odd places with barely noticable icons. Like... it's pretty and things are there but it makes no sense to me. It's like the mental model going on whiffles over my head. It's nice but whoever this is designed for does not even remotely think like I do. If that makes sense. I don't know if I'm just overwhelmed with UIs being different everywhere (Android vs iOS vs Windows vs MacOS vs every website doing it's things to be unique) but it feels like an extra and unnecessary puzzle that somehow hasn't gotten the memo about what's "common" or "typical" or emergent in the pile of visual chaos. Don't get me wrong, some parts they do the best (mostly shell related) and I miss them instantly on Windows or MacOS but some things (mostly in individual apps like the text editor and PDF viewer) really leave me scratching my head.
https://x.com/rebane2001/status/2007198231479103611
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