Re: Stop the bling, fergawdssake!

It seems to me like you're blaming Firefox for Microsoft's inability
to, or lack of will to, keep the Skype extension up to date.
Am I wrong?
I hope so, because this would be a "dick move".

I also very strongly disagree with your opinion that the upgrades
above 3.x have zero or negative effects on usability:
- The area of the browser window for display of webpages was augmented
immensely;
- The condensed menu speeds access to the most used features;
- There is a print preview option; <3
- There are tab groups;
- The about window checks, and tells the user, whether Firefox is up
to date - further offering an option to get those updates;
- The downloads window no longer jumps on your face when you get stuff;
- etc?

These contradict, IMO, your opinion.
Many others are too good for me to have noticed, or they feel so
natural that I can't remember them as differences from 3.x .
And I am not even a usability person, I am just a power user who
infrequently reads dev-usability.

I'm sorry, I think your contribution lacks solid fundaments.
Maybe you can review and improve it?

On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Greywolf <[email protected]> wrote:
> In a thread on m.s.thunderbird, I recommended downgrading if extensions
> don't work. I just downgraded my wife's FF8 to 3.6.24, because the Skype
> plugin won't work with FF8.
>
> The upgrades above 3.x for the most part are mere bling and vinyl stick-ons,
> with zero or negative effects on usability. Updates should concentrate on
> security. IMO, 3.6 is as usable as any browser is likely to get.
>
> NB (or should I shout, maybe?):
>
> Compared to other browsers, the _only_ advantage of FF has is the add-ons.
> Any updates that break extensions therefore reduce the value of Firefox.
>
> HTH,
> Wolf K.