Re: Rapid development leads to many incompatible AddOns

I agree that the major version changes have been coming too quickly with 
Firefox and Thunderbird.  Among other things, the changes have been 
breaking accessibility with screen readers.

Jamal


On 10/8/2011 7:59 AM, McGyver008 wrote:
> Hi to all,
>
> directly spoken: One of the most interesting features of FF - the
> AddOn's - get more and more often problems because of the method(s) of
> FF's development.
>
> Although development in general is necessary, of course and very
> important.. but I don't understand, why some basic functionality (for
> example some interface modules als well as JavaScript, I assume)
> changes that quickly.
>
> Many AddOn's need significantly more time for updates and in the
> moment even some well-known AddOn's like DownThemAll do only support
> FF 6.X, although there are 4 (!) complete new 'levels' of FF versions
> in nightly available (7.x, 8.x, 9.x, 10.x). Even the releases begin to
> outspace some AddOn's.
>
> Ok, my question: Why is it necessary to change so many aspects in a
> way, that make make it essential to rewrite so many AddOn's with every
> new 'major version step' (e.g. 6.x to 7.x)? I don't understand, why it
> is so important to make several steps during one year (it is really
> very strange - sorry - to see FF versions ranging between 3.x and 10.x
> in use... even though some of them are only nightly's and some others
> are known to be outdated... it looks like an inflation in versions).
> Well done software need to be updated as well, but not permanently
> from ground up - sorry. It looks like there is a preference in
> development... and speed in development seems to beat quality
> completely. Can this really be a good idea...?
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