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The main thing about FF has bothered me were the add-ons that I would lose from time to time. I don't know if they have solved that.
It's not that you "lose them"
A new version of FF comes out and if the programmer who wrote the add-on/extension is still alive and interested they have to rewrite it to be compatible with the new FF version.
Have you ever noticed that with new versions of Windows you "lose" some programs? It's called "compatibility"
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It's not that you "lose them"
A new version of FF comes out and if the programmer who wrote the add-on/extension is still alive and interested they have to rewrite it to be compatible with the new FF version.
Have you ever noticed that with new versions of Windows you "lose" some programs? It's called "compatibility"
SameO-sameO....
With Windows, obsolescence is a marketing tool. With Firefox, it's the end result of a stupid decision on the part of the project maintainers. They've lost a lot of users because of it, and they're about to lose me because I'm getting sick of losing key add-ons during version upgrades that never seem to come back.
There's a reason mainframe OS makers make gradual functional changes. Fast changes can end up hurting or even destroying the third-party software ecosystem.
Then why would he put the link on CD? Some days...
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