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Re:A grim outlook on the future of browser add-ons by jacquesm on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @03:42AM (#24339438)
Why push out something half baked? You are essentially stabbing your users in the back, some of us depend on those add-ons to get through the working day. To come into the office one day and to find your work environment irreversibly borked is not something that I find it all that easy to forgive. You have a very large responsibility to your users to not mess up their workflows. Better to keep your update in-house until you are done than to push something half baked and not backwards compatible.

'a bit bumpy' doesn't begin to describe it, until this day there are many ways in which the current iteration of FireFox is behind where 56 was.

Re:A grim outlook on the future of browser add-ons by Silhouette on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @07:38AM (#24340682)
You seem to have strong views on this. Perhaps you should write an article about the hazards of pushing unwanted "upgrades" on users and degrading their experience? Then every time a story like this comes up, it could help to make your point again.
Re:A grim outlook on the future of browser add-ons by jacquesm on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @11:39AM (#24342967)
I just might ;)

Anyway, even if I did, it probably wouldn't make any difference.

Re:A grim outlook on the future of browser add-ons by Silhouette on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @01:39PM (#24344418)
Perhaps not, but I and probably many others would thank you for trying to at least raise the issue.