Comments on: 2004-08-24 Branch builds

By: GURT

GURT — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

hmm.. why no windows builds?

By: John

John — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Fixed: 253722 - Remove alternate stylesheet UI.

WTF?! Are they going crazy?

By: Sharki

Sharki — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I think the devs have finally gone off the edge. I havn’t like some of their decisions lately, but this one is just nuts.

By: C. Coimbra

C. Coimbra — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

John and Sharki: If you feel like that, don’t try the Thunderbird crew! That’ll really freak you out!

By: Rirath

Rirath — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Removing the stylesheet UI really burns me… I sure do hope they don’t dumb down Firefox to simply an IE clone with better security for the 95% market share.

Same for the Offline Browsing, which I happily use the ‘Work Offline’ extension for and hope will still work. The talk about removing ‘View Source’ however, now that’s just plain ridiculous. I don’t care less if “95% never use it”, if they do it then it’s clear the power user no longer has a home with Firefox.

It’s times like this I can feel the pain of the true Linux gurus, in these days of ‘user friendly’ distros for everyone and his mother.

By: Jesse Ruderman

Jesse Ruderman — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Offline - removed because it was broken, not because it bloated the code or UI.

Alternate stylesheet UI - removed because it was broken, not because it bloated the code or UI. It might code back with a different UI, though.

View Source - Ben and Brendan never approved its removal, and it was not removed. See http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/006284.html