On Thu, September 25, 2014 10:27, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 09:09:15AM -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> >> 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-its-collective-mind/ 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. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3