On 6/14/13 10:41 AM, MCBastos wrote: > Interviewed by CNN on 14/06/2013 10:50, Desiree told the world: > >> That's good news! With Opera self destroying I am reading that a lot of >> Opera users are choosing Sea Monkey ....not Fx because Fx is also self >> destroying...the ones choosing Fx when they leave Opera are choosing the >> ESR version...but most are discovering SM and liking it. > > > You know, while I deeply lament the demise of the Presto engine, I am a > bit fed up with the hyperbole used whenever something dares not to stay > the same for ever and ever and EVER: > > - I have seen it when Seamonkey moved to 2.x, > - And again when 2.1 moved bookmarks to Places > - I have seen it when Firefox moved to the rapid-release train > - I have seen it with *every* release of Windows > - And yes, I have seen it even in the (largely positive) changeovers > from MacOS 9 to OSX and from PowerPC to Intel. There are ALWAYS people > who don't want any change. > > I haven't tried Australis yet. I understand it changes the way we do a > number of things. Some of the changes seem interesting, some of them > seem "meh". But I don't see anything that would rate as > "self-destroying." I understand that it will break some extensions, > which is annoying. But while changing stuff entails some risks, standing > still is a sure way to die. And any extension which is not being > actively maintained is a long-term security and stability risk anyway, > because any bugs which are discovered are *not* getting fixed. > > The general attitude is best reflected in this page: > > <http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheyChangedItNowItSucks> > > (beware, TV Tropes is a timesink way, WAY worse than Wikipedia or Facebook) >
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