I always find it interesting that users who consume free IT services and software have such petty complaints. Maybe start contributing to the ecosystem/community instead of downloading updates the day of and providing useless feedback and ratings.
It's not really petty, but it does mean you can't get your money back. It is not unreasonable to expect that the free product you were using that had previously been working just fine would continue to work even after you upgrade it. Especialy if you are forbidden to downgrade or rollback. If Mozilla turned around and said "it's free you morons just shut up already" they'd lose all customers. And yet that is exactly the same attitude I hear from all over when some people complain about "free" software.
Firefox mobile isn't very popular and part of that is because the UI was broken and most of the add-ons it claimed to support didn't work properly. Fixing it was always going to be painful in the short term but necessary.
Remember that they started with code from the mid 90s. Single threaded, no security to speak of, no mobile operating systems unless you count Windows for Pen Computing.
I'd forgive a lot if it were able to render Slashdot with correct fonts in a reasonable format and if the "desktop version" button didn't then proceed to draw a page so small that it is unreadable.
UI are things tech heads are concerned about. Having an addon not break and a web page not break is a deal breaker for everyone else. Firefox mobile is utter trash. Firefox on desktop on the other hand is not only a viable but a performant and well rounded browser.
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IT consumers petty complaints (Score:0)
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It's not really petty, but it does mean you can't get your money back. It is not unreasonable to expect that the free product you were using that had previously been working just fine would continue to work even after you upgrade it. Especialy if you are forbidden to downgrade or rollback. If Mozilla turned around and said "it's free you morons just shut up already" they'd lose all customers. And yet that is exactly the same attitude I hear from all over when some people complain about "free" software.
Re:IT consumers petty complaints (Score:4, Interesting)
Firefox mobile isn't very popular and part of that is because the UI was broken and most of the add-ons it claimed to support didn't work properly. Fixing it was always going to be painful in the short term but necessary.
Remember that they started with code from the mid 90s. Single threaded, no security to speak of, no mobile operating systems unless you count Windows for Pen Computing.
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I'd forgive a lot if it were able to render Slashdot with correct fonts in a reasonable format and if the "desktop version" button didn't then proceed to draw a page so small that it is unreadable.
UI are things tech heads are concerned about. Having an addon not break and a web page not break is a deal breaker for everyone else. Firefox mobile is utter trash. Firefox on desktop on the other hand is not only a viable but a performant and well rounded browser.