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First of all, it wasn't so much a specific reason why Australis is bad as it was an example of how it broke existing addons. I'm sure there are plenty of others
by dbbolton 12y ago
First of all, it wasn't so much a specific reason why Australis is bad as it was an example of how it broke existing addons. I'm sure there are plenty of others.
Second, both projects have been in active development for years so I'd imagine their userbases are substantial. Pentadactyl has about 20k downloads for release 1.0 alone, probably closer to 100k for all versions. Certainly not the majority of FF users but hardly ignorable either.
- M2Ys4U 12y ago>First of all, it wasn't so much a specific reason why Australis is bad as it was an example of how it broke existing addons. Australis was in the pipeline for a long time, and all work was done in the open. It's one of the reasons there was such a huge fuss made about it. Addon/extension authors had plenty of warnings and opportunities to make sure that their code didn't break.