Um, the text is inside a box, not floating on its own. Changing the background color of the page won't have any effect.
It'd be interesting to try to tack something to the left of the floating box. With the right alignment and styling it could be a cause for concern.
Have you ever considered if your perception of that "perfect software experience" might just possibly change if you were to be, for example, blinded?
The iPhone is actually quite accessible. Here's a review by an accessibility developer at Mozilla: link. He's blind, by the way.
Bring back the option for a status bar. You can leave it off by default but it is annoying as hell for a web developer to not have a status bar.
The statusbar is still there, but it is now called the Add-on Bar, and it's empty and hidden by default. Like the other reply states, some add-ons exist that move previous statusbar UI back to its original position.
*There's also the boiling frog scenario - toss a frog into boiling water he'll try to jump out. Put a frog in cold water and slowly warm it to boiling he won't. Some research says this is legend, some says it's true as long as you're really, really gradual. Me? I wonder if it also depends on the frog. Anyways - there are probably people less likely to notice being slow cooked than flash burned.
The "boiling frog" meme is just an urban legend.
I agree with everything else you said, though.
Remember the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania. It was supposedly headed towards DC. The attacks were only partially successful in that regard.
I wonder how different things would be if the 4th plane would have crashed on its target. It seems 9/11 is normally remembered as an attack on the WTC (rarely the Pentagon is mentioned), so maybe in that parallel reality 9/11 would have been remembered as the attack on the White House.
Yes, I'm referring to alternatives like Yahoo and Bing. When the search agreement renewal came up on the news a few months ago (maybe more?), and lot of people were asking the same question, and several people from Mozilla answered it very thoroughly (don't have reference handy, sorry). Mozilla has plenty of money saved for the future, and Google is not the only one capable and willing to fill that search engine spot.
Of course, you're free to be skeptic about claims coming from within Mozilla. (Full disclosure: I work for them)
The Security Announcement on the first link explains how the add-on hadn't gone through the code review and it was labelled as such. Granted, many users will just ignore all warnings and install anyway, which is why we're changing the security model to make even experimental add-ons go through code review before they are discoverable.
Updates are only pushed for add-ons that have already been approved, and only after the updates have been code reviewed.
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