On Thu, September 25, 2014 10:27, Scott Robbins wrote:

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 09:09:15AM -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote:

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developers to follow this:

Don't change anything unless it is absolutely necessary.

(it was excellent attitude to programming I was doing once: this way you diminish the chance to break something that works...)

Probably POLA, Principle Of Least Astonishment.

The following article is from 2011 mind you, when FF 4 had 31% market share instead of the 17% it has now:

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/it-security/has-the-mozilla-foundation-lost...

And then the famous Kaply blog where Asa Dotzler tells all of us entreprisey folks that use FF to get stuffed:

http://mike.kaply.com/2011/06/23/understanding-the-corporate-impact/

We are on FF-ESR for our MS_Win users as well as CentOs, but this constant deliberate breakage by the MF folks has had me actively considering finding an alternative for some time now. I had sort of settled on Opera but they seem to have stopped development on the Linux version.

I love the extensions that are available for FF but I am tired beyond care of witnessing the pointless rearranging of the deck chairs while FF slips ever so gently beneath the waves.