Re: Extensions and Gecko specific APIs
On 7/26/2017 4:27 PM, Steve Fink wrote: it's a bold move that says we're willing to take the painful hit of pissing off addon authors and users That has certainly happened... But to make the sacrifice worthwhile, that means we have to *be* a high quality product. One with a competitive edge. Which means that people have a reason to choose us over the alternatives. And while we can and should look for other ways of doing that, via activity streams or privacy or Accounts or better tab handling, our historical edge has been extensibility and customizability. Firefox is sticky because people can make it do what they want, things that they come to depend on enough that they feel like they're missing out by switching browsers. (Even if people don't *actually* make use of it, knowing that the capability is there is powerful.) Indeed. Many of the changes the last few years have left a lot of users asking "if they are just copying Chrome, why shouldn't we switch to that?" I think "extensibility and customizability" is what kept many people from doing so, and now some of that is going away... ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Re: OS/2 still supported ?
On 7/25/2017 8:40 PM, Ralph Giles wrote: libvpx is maintained upstream and updated periodically, so there's no point making changes if they're not also accepted upstream. The remaining OS/2 users would definitely not appreciate a crusade to kill support for that platform in upstream projects (including NSS and NSPR). :-p For what it's worth - there was a new OS/2 distribution / release just a couple months ago, as "ArcaOS". ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Re: OS/2 still supported ?
On 7/25/2017 7:28 AM, Jeff Muizelaar wrote: The only remaining in-tree references to the XP_OS2 macros are in NSPR and NSS, which are technically separate projects, and have their own sets of supported platforms. The cairo stuff is from an upstream project and not worth removing. Likewise for libvpx and libffi? ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Re: Data migration from ftp.mozilla.org to S3, 1pm Pacific Tuesday 20th October
On 10/21/2015 2:33 AM, Nick Thomas wrote: although we encourage people to move to https://archive.mozilla.org. The column header sorting (e.g. ?C=M;O=D) has been broken for a couple weeks, and I see that both firefox and thunderbird don't even show dates in the listings any more: http://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/ SeaMonkey still has the nicer output, but with the broken sorting: http://archive.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/releases/?C=M;O=D Will this be fixed, or is it going to continue to be a worse experience than it ever was with FTP? ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
