Does it get you a discount on a burger and fries at the fast food chain of the same last word?
An amusing, but well-constructed rant about Firefox/Mozilla:
https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/firefox-89.html
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Idiom actually. Fast foods don’t have much nutritions as to real food. It wouldn’t surprise me if there’s such a thing for diners to get discounts after returning buckets full of their fecal matters from consuming fast foods.
Just want to add this, about disabling Proton on Firefox 89. Previously, I provided:
about:config
browser.proton.enabled false
But there are a few other Proton-related settings in about:config, so it’s better to just search for “proton” and then disable them all to restore the menus and controls to their previous state.
I believe it’ll be impossible to disable Proton after FF89, so it’s a short-term fix…unless you decide to freeze it at 89 for a while. 
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FYI, I can confirm that the about:config fixes to disable Proton are still working in Firefox 90.0; I took one for the team. 
I’ve read that somewhere in the 90 cycle this will stop working.
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I have this prepared for when that happens: https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix/
I probably don’t actually like it, but at least this should be a good starting point to bring back old densities.
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FF 90.0.2 still retains the ability to disable Proton.
(In Linux, at least.)
I like the Proton design.
Just disable the new tab ads, disable searches, use about:blank at new tap or homepage and disable every kind of browser history and use umatrix.
Do not have more then two or three taps open at the same time, its bad habit! Use Bookmarks if you need it or write a script or RSS Reader for some pages you have daily open and just press F4… (!). Edit, Typos
I’m so corrupted that whenever someone merely looks at me, tabs pop open in their browser spontaneously.
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Don’t mind, this is normal behaviour, to keep your privacy. I just know folks who have 10 or 20 taps open like for ever! And never do shutdown or reboot the computer.
And every tab try to track you. Every tab on average news pages have one tracking pixel and 100 tracking ips, updated every here and now.
Easy fix for that tracking: NoScript extension.
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Heads up! According to ghacks.net, in FF91, Mozilla is changing the download/view-save behavior. It will now default to saving the file, without giving you the option to just view it. You then have to manually delete the file if you don’t want to keep it.
Fixable in about:config…
browser.download.improvements_to_download_panel
(Set to false if you don’t want the new behavior.)
Edit: Here’s a more direct link: https://www.ghacks.net/2021/08/04/a-close-look-at-firefox-91s-new-file-download-opening-behavior/
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“improvements”. I recently had a chat about how browsers utterly fail at bookmarks. Saving by default might have been fine if there was an easy way to organize and search saved files, but viewing and not saving is a way I reduce the noise-to-signal ratio in my downloads directory. I don’t need 30 datasheets for the wrong component that I look at before finding the correct one.
I wonder what the reasoning behind this was.
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I’m not sure there was any.
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It appears that Proton-disabling is gone in FF91, from what I’m reading. FYI.
I moved to FF 91.0, because I modified my style-sheet to fix what annoyed me. Unless I did something wrong, disabling Proton (browser.proton.enabled to ‘false’) seemed to have no affect. What you read seems to be correct.
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Could you share?
Yes, I can not disable Proton either.
This might help deal with some of the pain if you’ve updated to FF91 (I have not):
https://www.userchrome.org/firefox-89-styling-proton-ui.html
I’m officially renaming FF91 to “FFS91.” (https://www.dictionary.com/browse/ffs)
And we all hope you and the other users in Greece* are safe from fires right now, @antonis. 
*And in Italy, too.