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Re:Firefox 75.0 by stronglikedan on Friday April 10, 2020 @09:28AM (#22832770)
It's just a figure of speech. It's not meant to be taken literally. It's a valid description of a lot of people's feelings for this user-hostile feature.
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Re:Firefox 75.0 by Tagbert on Friday April 10, 2020 @10:59AM (#22833672)
It may be a figure of speech but it is a ridiculous overreaction to call it an abomination. You may not like it but it’s nowhere near enough to describe that way. What term will you use when something truly bad comes up?
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Re:Firefox 75.0 by nocman on Friday April 10, 2020 @04:50PM (#22837213)
> What term will you use when something truly bad comes up?

So you are saying it would be OK to call some feature of a piece of software "an abomination" if it were "something truly bad", then?

Well, then why should mikro2nd be prevented from calling this feature "an abomination" if that is an accurate description of how he feels about it?

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Re:Firefox 75.0 by pengaru on Friday April 10, 2020 @03:13PM (#22836365)
> What term will you use when something truly bad comes up?

Surely you can imagine genuinely offensive overreactions, plain use of 'abomination' is nowhere near over the top.

Consult some of Linus Torvalds' famous rants for examples.

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Re:Firefox 75.0 by CrappyFanThor on Friday April 10, 2020 @12:38PM (#22834692)
unusable
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Re:Firefox 75.0 by cjaybo on Friday April 10, 2020 @10:59AM (#22833676)
Is it a valid description of people's feelings, or is it hyperbole? I struggle to see how it can be both at once.
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Re:Firefox 75.0 by dvtrn on Friday April 10, 2020 @12:27PM (#22834595)
Subjectivity is a bitch ain’t it?
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