No more Firefox

I will not–can not–promote the Firefox and Thunderbird projects by including their banners on this weblog until this removal is overturned. The hasty, draconian decision has been overruled by Brendan Eich and Ben Goodger. I’ve read the arguments against retaining the feature, and they’re far outweighed by the arguments for it–most overwhelmingly this one from the feature developer that was ignored by drivers:

I am planning to fix all those bugs… for the 1.0 localization freeze (FF 0.10?).

If buggy, untested new features can be added at the last minute to a supposedly stablizing product, why can’t less-buggy, well-tested, useful features be retained? Asa: it’s too late in the game to get decent feedback is not a reason, it’s an excuse.

And a final bit of irony: in Mozilla Seamonkey 1.8’s latest alpha, Users can now disable CSS via Use Style > None or a global preference… the very thing that’s been removed from Firefox.

Daniel Glazman sums it up nicely: If [a list of 7 minor bugs] is accurate, the whole story of the removal of the Style Switcher is a real shame.