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I had a flashback to the days of web portals. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, I like that they're trying something because complacency is never a good thing

by ejr 12y ago

I had a flashback to the days of web portals. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, I like that they're trying something because complacency is never a good thing. You have to try things to see if they work. I think the biggest allure of this is that there are people with simple needs that want their technology to "just work" as they said. I also agree with owlish's comment in that there are some quirks that need rapid alleviation that aren't being addressed like click-to-play and dropping extensions doesn't seem like a good way to approach this. I applaud the experimentation so long as the end results are choices we can make for ourselves.

pessimizer 12y ago
>I applaud the experimentation so long as the end results are choices we can make for ourselves. I don't understand why Mozilla works like this, but they won't be. They'll be pushed into an update with an option to turn them off, after 3 or 4 releases the old behavior will be pushed into the about:config, and 3 or 4 releases after that, it will be removed completely.
nnethercote 12y ago
> I like that they're trying something because complacency is never a good thing. You have to try things to see if they work. That's an admirable way of looking at things. I wish more people were as open-minded about software changes.