Mozilla is getting me mad every day
Par jd le dimanche, novembre 23 2008, 11:25 - Internet - Lien permanent
Now you need to register to install addons from addons.mozilla.org. For god's sake, what's the point of such a thing, except annoying people.
Mozilla you suck: your softwares suck, your ideas suck. You'll really gonna get out of my computer ASAP.
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Where do you have to register to download an addon?
Addons that are considered "experimental" require registration if you want to install them, to prevent casual users from installing them without reading the disclaimer and then thinking their Firefox is a buggy piece of crap that crashes all the time.
I'm not sure I agree with their solution, but I think I understand their point of view.
I understand your frustrations. In the name of 'user friendlyness' actually using the software is made impossible.
The obvious example is Windows Vista (or anything made by MS in fact). Unfortunately quite a few people in the open source world seem to be afflicted with the same brain damage. The Mozilla people have a fairly severe case, but they're far from the only ones.
It's a good thing there are still other people out there, making honest-to-god usable software. You're one of them, and I thank you for it.
That seems me to be a good idea from Mozilla (once more !). Its the responsibility of the developers to provide stable software (OpenSource or not) for end-users. This login constraint is, from my point of view, a good idea to make contributors aware of their responsibilities towards the end users ... and Mozilla.
Not stable = Not public, normal !
You should inform yourself better, before you start a flame like this...
As Marius said, this policy applies only to addons deemed 'experimental', as a means of discouraging people from installing addons that have a good chance of breaking their Firefox profile.
I personally don't think it's a good approach - some kind of heavy-handed warning page would have been sufficient - but I can see where they're coming from...
My largest complaint with the registration stuff, is that the registration is actually BROKEN. I've tried several times to register for it, and not once gotten an activation link.
You are only asked for registration when installing experimental addons that could crash your browser.
So, why does their software suck? What ideas of theirs suck? If you're going to throw out an opinion like this, you better be ready to back it up.
As an addon developer I feel your pain. My extension has been in development for over a year and while not perfect I feel is stable enough to be public (a bunch of people use it and not experiencing problems). So I wait with my extension in the nomination queue.
But they have limited resources of course, so there is a delay between nomination and approval/disapproval of many months. To make it worse, it's not always fair and FIFO. They will show consideration to "famous" web pages that want to make some site-specific addon; pretty much zero-day approval for a new extension from a site like digg.com for example.
There's a big difference between giving your users fair warnings and treating them like children, and this is certainly an example of the latter. Mozilla is focusing all too much on the well-known Microsoft- and Apple-style of "user-friendliness" and way to little on the more respecting Free Software approach. What's next? Hiding the source code so users don't accidentally hurt themselves trying to build Firefox on their own?
Don't get you knickers in a twist. It's trivial compared to trying to view a site using a self-signed certificate.