This person makes a decision supported by reasonable evidence and argumentation, confirmed through discussion with other members of the organization and wider community, and shipped after a thorough review (all happening in the open on a bug tracker!); and you're calling for them to be fired?

I sure hope you don't make any mistakes at your company!

> all happening in the open on a bug tracker!

I find it suspicious that there was not a single comment from a user before the change shipped - but immediately after, there were various complaints. That's not the first time I see this pattern in a bug.

This looks more like the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" definition of "open" - where the discussion is technically public, but you heavily rely on the fact that no one knows it exists.

That's a good point. The removal of such user-critical features should at the very least be announced well in advance via a clear deprecation notice, to allow for the collection of relevant feedback.

> user-critical features

They didn't remove JavaScript or the tabs. Very few users will know it's gone - I wouldn't have noticed.

If the page becomes unreadable I would say that it's critical.

How could Mozilla publicize every change they make? And then discuss them all?

By submitting every new Bugzilla ticket as a new HN post, of course!

Do other browsers offer character encoding menus or are they from improper companies? (Or were the developers fired but their changes kept?)

He "simplified the menus", remaining broken old web pages be damned. Mozilla's goal is to be as user hostile as Chrome.