I disagree.

Yep. It will also be part of a forced upgrade for Windows users. I've already decided to switch to Pale Moon anyway. I don't like or trust the Mozilla team anymore.

Although you call them names you haven't offered any sort of moral argument as to why what they are doing is wrong. How exactly do they raise costs?

Agreed to pay for? Somehow I doubt the fare dodgers ever signed some kind of agreement to pay. Although I suppose I could be wrong. Do you have any evidence to back up that claim?

You seem to be confused. Breaking laws is not wrong. I break as many laws as I can. I take pride in breaking the law. And yet I am a very moral person who cares about others and believes in putting others before myself. What is 'extremely American' is basing your actions on philosophy. That's what the Founding Terrorists did. They broke the law, defied The King, but they did what they thought was right and based their actions on a well thought out philosophy. Now that is what is American. Following either the letter or the spirit ofthe law is something I associate more with say Germans.

Interesting. I suppose that must happen to me on Reddit. I'm middle aged and the vast majority of the posters on Reddit are teens to early 20s and it just seems like we cannot relate to each other at all. We just don't discuss issues the same way at all.

On Slashdot I have pretty good karma and rarely get downmodded, but on Reddit every single post I make gets downvoted. Every one. I kid you not. Often by as much as 10-15 points.

It may just be that I have a lot of enemies over there, but I think it is also a generational thing. When I post at some level I think it must feel to them like their parent or something and they have to downvote it.

What I find strange is that because every one of my posts is downvoted I just ignore it. It doesn't cause me to post less. I haven't found the negative moderation to have any real negative effect. I suppose it does mean that there are fewer people who can read what I write because I would guess that not everyone changes the default visibility preference to something more sensible as I do. I can still see posts that have been downvoted to like -30 or so. Since I still find posts at like -15 or -20 to have value it seems that unlike Slashdot, the moderation system over there just isn't effective. Well at least if its purpose was just to censor obvious trolls and spam. But then I don't find any serious discussions over there at all.

No. It's the same car. He just keeps telling you it's new. He's lied to you about everything so far and is actively trying to trick you. So should you trust him this time?

And do you consider the fact that no matter what you say he makes the change anyway no matter how much you protest. He says it's for your own good. He tells you he's done studies. And besides Ford is paying him to do all this. If he stops he'll lose all that cash.

This is a good point. I'd consider downgrading to a version that my favorite theme worked with and just stick with that. Especially in Linux which doesn't have Pale Moon.

Yes. That would be Google. And they pay quite well.

They should have stopped before they decided to stop improving an existing browser and start just blindly copying everything Chrome does. I'm guessing you are not old enough to remember this, but before version 4.0 every release was not about complaining. Admittedly slashdot posts about a new firefox version were a lot less interesting and had fewer comments, but the changes tended to be relatively sane and if there was a bit of craziness thrown in at least it wasn't the sort that utterly destroys the browser so that Chrome users can have the option of a very slightly different browser that works just like they are used to. It's almost like Google is paying for these changes.

Actually a better analogy would be some smartypants removing your gearshift lever entirely and putting it in random places. Every. Fucking. Night. Why? Because he can and because he likes fucking with you.

Strawman. We only hate change when it makes things worse or when it is just random redesign which is change just for the sake of change. If I get a can of fluorescent yellow spray paint and paint your car with it one night while you sleep and you see your red car turn yellow the next day are you going to embrace change?

Clearly the Mozilla devs have a design target in mind though: Chrome. If you like Google's browser then you will like the direction Firefox has been headed in for years. If you don't then you will probably find yourself switching to Pale Moon, Seamonkey, or Waterfox right about now. Or for Linux just never upgrading to version 29 since they cannot force upgrades in Linux.

I am. Probably the only reason I've been able to stick with Firefox since the Rapid Release madness began. Since Firefox wanted nothing more than to be a Chrome clone. But it only delays the inevitable. The shit UX UIs eventually make it into the ESR too. No. I think I'm going to switch to Pale Moon or Waterfox now and preempt this shit before they shove it down the throats of the ESR people too.

In Linux you could just not upgrade since they cannot force upgrade you (at least not in Arch Linux), but obviously then you don't get security fixes. The writing has been on the wall for years now. I think it's about time to abandon ship.

To deal with developers who have never seen or heard of a change they didn't like. Who don't need a reason to make a change other than it being different or rather MORE LIKE CHROME. Or just to give the original user base who liked the original UI design the finger.

I don't, but Microsoft allows you to change it so that the task bar performs its original task. The Mozilla team of assholes however insists that it is their way or the highway. I even have the quick launch bar restored. It's not because I don't like change. I just don't like change for the worse and that is how I see a mixed function bar. I find separate bars for separate functions to be more logical and usable. I launch from the launch bar and monitor, control, and choose running apps from the task bar. Makes perfect sense to me. It didn't need any 'streamlining'.