On 4/17/2017 1:07 PM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote:
There are now constant changes in the Gecko engine
Fair enough. :-/
And every release breaks more and more add-ons because of removals in Gecko and JS deprecation and so on.
I remember when it was a "big deal" to break the API and go from Gecko 1.x to 2.0. Now it's every few weeks.
With the imminent removal of aurora this won't get any better.
Was news to me; found this: https://www.ghacks.net/2017/04/16/firefox-aurora-end/
The only entity believing that the code became more stable in recent releases is Mozilla corp. For SeaMonkey and the other comm-central apps it just means that the junk is pushed faster down imho :)
The "nothing matters but Firefox" attitude is certainly detrimental to the rest of the community, but that slippery slope was well greased long ago.
You and I can probably deal with any fallout but I have seen enough bug reports from people without a backup so I put this in as a general warning. If you want to go back backup before upgrading.
In this case, one small suggestion - at first glance, it looks like it's the same data loss warning that has been there forever (I just noticed the version bump, and assumed it was accidental). Perhaps more words to the effect of this post (constant changes in Core break all our $#!+) would help make it clear the warning is constantly relevant?
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