[ale] AARG Firefox devs delete several important UI options

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Thu Aug 8 09:34:51 EDT 2013


I agree. I read very few of Ron's posts all the way through, but the
way I see it, he's single handedly keeping this list alive (with
relevant content). I assume your email client has some sort of feature
to kill threads -- use it. I make gratuitous use of Gmail's "mute"
feature.

As to the actual subject of this thread, all I can say is don't ever
try to write a Firefox add-on. It's an even more miserable experience
than dealing with the whims of the UI team.

Their reasoning for getting rid of these options is summed up in [1].
But if Firefox users wanted to use Epiphany[2], they would be doing
so.

[1] -- http://limi.net/checkboxes-that-kill/
[2] -- https://projects.gnome.org/epiphany/

On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at water.com> wrote:
> I’d say you no longer fit if you fill it necessary to try to shutdown
> posters that are at least:
>
> a)      Posting about technical items rather than the thousands of OT
> subjects here
>
> b)      Actually give detail not only of the problem but of possible
> solutions.
>
>
>
> Honestly it just seems to me that you have a person animus here.  I don’t
> know you or Ron but where I CAN see the point of his posts I find I can NOT
> see the points of your attacks against them.



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