i think much of it is that there has been many new internet users, and many on mobile, that don't know about firefox

robobox From my point of view I find the article matching my opinion. Probably not the only reason but one of tha main ones.

frg_Away: What article??

Thank you. ;-P

Umm!! What's "PC uses tabs against the active window" mean??

Maniel basically probably means uses a standard layou with menu toolbar and tabs. Or did until MS invented the ribbons.

^layout

Umm!! O.K., clear as mud .... inless that's what I've got in SM. And what the hell were 'ribbons'??

I guess my Win7 never had ribbons!

Maniel: I think write.exe might come with it

or is it called wordpad.exe?

oh, and mspaint.exe

Ah!! So 'Ribbon Computing" is like the controls at the top on my Open Office screen, then, is it??

it's a different interface concept for GUI applications, where instead of the menu bar and button bars you have bigger-sized tabbed bars with a mix of buttons, possibly with different sizes or whose content might change depending on context (I think)

there's probably a much better definition for this :-)

Het! You say 'either', I say 'either' (That saying doesn't really work in a text based environment, but whatever!!) ;-P

s/Het/Hey!!

built-in ribbon support in terminals, I'd want to see how'd that look like

but maybe that shouldn't be controlled by the DTE

ribbons were the reason I stopped using MS Office after 2003

Open/LibreOffice isn't perfect, but at least the UI isn't braindamaged and doesn't consider me a moron

...not that I like office applications in general, I actually hate them

njsg: on Win7 it's Wordpad and Paint - Notepad thankfully is ribbonless... for now

since Win10, Explorer is also ribbonized

hopefully ribbons will never catch on under Linux, but then, pundits say this could be a reason of why Linux will always be 1%er

there are people who seem to believe there's a need to copy all the trends. It'd be more interesting if some of the programs which get ribbons get these as an option.

tomman: does LaTeX have a ribbon already?

the day someone puts ribbons on nano, that day there will be war

the bar with shortcuts at the bottom doesn't count as a ribbon? :-P

tomman Well if some devs think it is time for an ego trip the war is possibly lost this moment. I am using Libre and while I dislike the ribbons some tasks were done esier in MSO. But overall I always looked for keyboard shortcuts to get rid of later even more brain damages ui. Last version I used at work was 2016 and it was a buggy mess with brain damage. Thankfully got out or would now in...

...365 hell.