In Ubuntu studio (xfce) I got the full horror. Nothing makes your day like reverting all the changes I had made since 26 to keep things the way I like them. I still have a few features that don't work the way they used to.

As soon as I upgrade to the latest LTS, I'll try installing Palemoon For Linux.

I hear yah. I just switched all the public computers in the library I run over to Pale Moon, after hearing yet another patron complain that "Firefox is broken!" A large proportion of the users here laboriously learned to use a computer and rely on careful repetition of the steps they memorized to access email or other simple tasks. Suddenly, the back button is in the wrong place, the tabs are on top, the progress bar is gone and so is their weather! They can't cope with the changes, and aren't savvy enough to be able to figure them out on their own.

So, after years of evangelizing Firefox, I find myself saying, "Just click on that little moon there; and they click; AND IT JUST WORKS LIKE FIREFOX.

Honestly, dev-folks--Unity, Australis, Gimp2.8 (File>>Save!!), etc.--don't you want us to spread the gospel of F/LOSS? Why do you have against average users? --or solid, functional user interfaces THAT ANYONE CAN USE?

Sorry. I guess I'm getting tired of being shot in the foot by my own side.

So, are they saying that if a car is dusty or has too many rust spots, that it won't be recognized as a car? ...or that you could escape a pursuing driverless cop car with flying chaff?

Somehow, I can't imagine that we would risk ourselves in a car without robust and redundant identification systems.

And reckoning by code contributions leaves out those many who contribute in other ways, such as active forum participants, teachers and evangelists.

I don't know how many times, in my decade as a rural librarian, I have explained that the "big blue e" isn't the internet, or showed how Firefox can be set up to browse safely and securely. Most of the patrons who bring laptops into the library now use Firefox. Many of them use LibreOffice or OpenOffice (from before the fork) instead of the MS Office that came bundled with their systems. I even have patrons who use the (old version of) the GIMP, including local professionals who used to purchase Photoshop.

I am a contributor to the open source movement, and, at least in my small town, a significant one, despite having submitted less than five bugs in my years using F/LOSS.

"OSS Patrons." That is a good idea. I wish I had mod points today. Thanks.