Firefox MAC is one of the first extensions that I install, after uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, and Cookie Autodelete.
I install MAC despite my dislike for what the UI has become.
The UX was fine until Firefox started pushing its VPN service via this extension. I encourage the use of VPNs, that isn't my objection. But now the installation of MAC requires too many clicks just to configure it, and some of those clicks are to dismiss things that I didn't request.
Good UX practices:
1 = offer reasonable defaults
2 = be visually intelligible (make it easy to recognise borders, boxes, controls)
3 = make it easy to access important properties (don't bury or hide what people need)
4 = don't be annoying, nagging, exhausting, or confounding
5 = favour exposing features in an organised way
6 = let the user customise
The MAC extension suffers in points 2, 3, and 4 during installation. Now that Firefox has forced the grouping of all extensions in an Extension folder that cannot be moved, we now have a problem with point 6 too.
You can still pin an extension to the toolbar and if it's already pinned Firefox will honor your setting in Fx 109+. IIRC, we can also in the extension manifest.json force the addon to show in the toolbar by default.
I install MAC despite my dislike for what the UI has become.
The UX was fine until Firefox started pushing its VPN service via this extension. I encourage the use of VPNs, that isn't my objection. But now the installation of MAC requires too many clicks just to configure it, and some of those clicks are to dismiss things that I didn't request.
Good UX practices:
The MAC extension suffers in points 2, 3, and 4 during installation. Now that Firefox has forced the grouping of all extensions in an Extension folder that cannot be moved, we now have a problem with point 6 too.