Re: Firefox 38.8.0 Beta 7 released

Lars Erdmann schrieb:
> Looks like the Firefox team is doing a good job of driving away their
> users. And I DO NOT mean the people working on the OS/2 version of Firefox.

Firefox sucks on every platform. I was updating today a remote machine 
from v40 to v43 using the integrated update mechanism under windows 
(automation was disabled of course). It could not manage to update the 
standard theme and crashed at first initialisation. While deinstalling 
firefox and installing complete new version 43 works. Btw. the full 
install file (for fresh install) was smaller than the downloaded update 
package.

> Example: why did I have to install the Locale switcher in order to be
> able to actually ACTIVATE the language pack (in the user interface: menu
> bars, etc.) ?

Local switcher is another example for an Add-On doing only half of the 
job. In my opinion "Quick Locale Switcher" should be more reliable and 
has crucial functionality to switch the profile language.

> With seamonkey (in the past) I just had to drop the XPI file and restart
> the application.

Unfortunately not everytime. Especially the german langpack has a lot of 
issues.

> Same thing goes with Thunderbird but I guess that could be expected.

Without Add-Ons it's almost the same procedure.

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Andreas