Text version: officers tell Hitler that he has to upgrade FF because of bugs but warn it breaks his extension again. He dismisses the importance until they break the news he can't install the recompiled extension even if he says it's okay in about::config. Hitler goes ballistic about how that defeats FF's mission to give control back to users.
Climax: "If every tweak must be personally approved by Mozilla employees, why not just shrink-wrap the browser and make me buy it from Microsoft at Best Buy?"
Epilogue (real-life): Mozilla has now broken extensions so badly that you can't recover some of Pentadactyl's functionality, like customizing key commands. (At least, they won't take effect while on a tab until that tab's JS has loaded. Seriously?)
But hey, at least I get Looking Glass forced on me with a cryptic message that makes me think I've been hacked. That's worth the tradeoff, right?
I wrote this Hitler parody about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taGARf8K5J8
Text version: officers tell Hitler that he has to upgrade FF because of bugs but warn it breaks his extension again. He dismisses the importance until they break the news he can't install the recompiled extension even if he says it's okay in about::config. Hitler goes ballistic about how that defeats FF's mission to give control back to users.
Climax: "If every tweak must be personally approved by Mozilla employees, why not just shrink-wrap the browser and make me buy it from Microsoft at Best Buy?"
Epilogue (real-life): Mozilla has now broken extensions so badly that you can't recover some of Pentadactyl's functionality, like customizing key commands. (At least, they won't take effect while on a tab until that tab's JS has loaded. Seriously?)
But hey, at least I get Looking Glass forced on me with a cryptic message that makes me think I've been hacked. That's worth the tradeoff, right?