Not at a global scale that FF is at. For a business, while painful, it's a smaller footprint for the impact.
FF has millions of users around the world. What are they thinking? Mark. On 17/Nov/17 09:04, Stephen S. Musoke wrote: > Oh yes indeed, but once in a while you need to break a whole lot of > stuff to start on a new path. > > I am actually in that situation now, where we are rolling out software > that needs an infrastructure change which is painful but is the best > for the future direction. And just has to be done > > Stephen > > Stephen S. Musoke > Skype: ssmusoke > Twitter: @ssmusoke > +256 776 553 260 > http://ssmusoke.com > > /Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is > that we are powerful beyond measure ~Marianne Williamson/ > > On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 9:34 AM, Mark Tinka <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Guys, I won't lie, I love FF, but man does it make my fan go. Even > the new, lighter FF 57, though better than the last iterations, is > still power-hungry. > > But as with most of you, the callous disregard for the Extensions > that made FF is what has really got me thinking. > > For the foreseeable future, I'll use Chrome (would prefer Safari, > but it's not as well supported by the community as Chrome and FF are). > > Happy to relaunch FF once all this is sorted out, if ever. > > Mark. > > > On 16/Nov/17 22:46, Kyle Spencer wrote: >> I love the new Firefox. It's much lighter and faster. A few key >> extensions don't work yet (e.g. NoScript) but compatibility is >> coming very soon. >> >> Who can trust a closed-source browser from a large corporation? >> >> On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 8:25 PM, Tim Schofield >> <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Mozilla have irritated me on several things recently, though >> I have found their developers will often listen to reasoned >> argument. >> >> However I persist because I dislike the spyware built into >> Chrome, and because I don't want to see a web dominated by >> MS/Apple/Google. Firefox saved us from the IE6/DHTML/Jquery >> nightmare of a proprietary web, and I hope Mozilla will >> revert back to how they once were so that it doesn't happen >> again. >> >> Tim >> >> On 16 November 2017 at 16:55, James Makumbi >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Stephen, least you could have done is read the shared url. >> I had read elsewhere the impending doom for extensions in >> ff but like you, I thought the unsupported open source >> devs would adapt. >> Sadly if what Nils said is true, the quality extensions >> we have been using might all disappear. >> >> >> On Thu, 16 Nov 2017, 15:07 Stephen S. Musoke, >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> James, >> >> Webapps I moved to Firefox Developer Edition the blue >> one, runs fast without alot of the consumer baggage >> >> Patience with Firefox, the extensions will be back in >> a month or two, after all you are paying narra for it >> ... >> >> Stephen >> >> Stephen S. Musoke >> Skype: ssmusoke >> Twitter: @ssmusoke >> +256 776 553 260 >> http://ssmusoke.com >> >> /Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. 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