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They rushed it and I find it hard to not see it as a giant "screw you". They didnt release the specifications early enough for people to rewrite their addons a
by cf498 8y ago
They rushed it and I find it hard to not see it as a giant "screw you".
They didnt release the specifications early enough for people to rewrite their addons and at the end of ESR52 there where still multiple bugs open which prevented people from porting their addons. We didnt even get a normal 1 year ESR support frame for gods sake. All that ignoring the fact that there was no warning for the end users that all their security addons were disabled after the automatic update.
I am still furious about the absolute arrogance and carelessness Mozilla showed here.
- Karunamon 8y agoThis. Ever since the plugin fiasco, it’s really hard for me to see Firefox as anything other than a worse Chrome. Extensibility was Firefox’s main selling point; and they pissed that away.
- feanaro 8y agoI was very pissed at them for exactly this reason and I still am to some degree. I would love to find an acceptable alternative that goes back to the roots, so to speak. For instance, I've been looking at qutebrowser, but it's still too limited (and might remain so for some time). But Chrome as an alternative? That's not even on the table. Firefox is definitely the lesser of two evils.
- SilasX 8y agoI'm just amazed that you can't even manually remap keyboard commands. Seriously Mozilla? $500 million/year in funding and you can't support that customization?
- cf498 8y agoAn even better example is "Other Bookmarks". https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/default-bookmark-folder/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/default-bookm... They simply changed the default bookmark location with no option to change it back. I need an addon to change the default bookmark location to keep my earlier filing approach. I mean really?