Re: Disabled cookie micro-management feature causes various problems

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 12:34 AM, Hugues de Lassus Saint-Geniès <
hugues.de-lassus-J3HerwJfv+UE9HRsTBSACg@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Take this silly example: imagine if we removed RSS support because many
> average users do not use them, and say that those who want to have to
> install the extensions they want between the 177 extensions relevant
> with the keyword "RSS". I think we would make a big step back (when I
> used Sage as an RSS reader ^_^) if the functionalities used by a
> minority were removed just "because they can break the average user's
> Internet".
>

It's not that silly, indeed the removal of support to RSS has been
evaluated multiple times (I usually opposed, if you care to know).
Releasing a software like Firefox to hundreds millions users is a complex
task and until you are actually doing it, many things may indeed look
"silly", but often they are not.
Also, add-ons are not an enemy nor an evil thing, we should stop saying
things like "requiring a user to install 20 add-ons is wrong...". Nothing
wrong with that, it's customization.

-m
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