Re: Rapid development leads to many incompatible AddOns

On Oct 8, 10:20 pm, Jamal Mazrui <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
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> Jamal
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> On 10/8/2011 7:59 AM, McGyver008 wrote:
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> > Hi to all,
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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 are known to be outdated...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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Hi, Jamal. What kind of problems of screen readers support can you see
because of rapid release cycle?
Alexander.