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I really wish you had your email address in your profile.

• Silhouette 15y ago
  Sorry, I like my pseudonymity shield in this sort of discussion. It makes conflicts of interest far less likely, given that I have a number of professional interests and possibly not everyone I work with would like my honest views on this subject. (I don't think that matters as long as the work I do for them is my best effort at what they're paying me for, but they might disagree.) Should I ask why you wanted my e-mail address...?
  • thaumaturgy 15y ago
    Because I'm seriously considering devoting some of my meager resources to forking and long-term maintaining the Firefox 3.6 and 4-5 versions, and wanted to get some non-public feedback on that from someone with the same problems I have.
    • Silhouette 15y ago
      Well, the nice thing about a pseudonym is I can tell you the same things here that I'd say privately. :-) FYI in case you didn't know, it looks like they are planning to maintain the 3.x branch for a while, but 5 is being treated as the next step from 4 so they won't be maintaining a 4.x series independently. Also FWIW, some of the specific problems encountered by projects I've worked on actually crept into the later 3.x series, notably the ones involving text rendering problems and the ones involving Java applets. So I guess that's a vote from me for "probably more valuable uses for that much of your time", but I suppose YMMV depending on what specific issues you've encountered.