Mike, I also use these extensions, and I wish you gave me the options of enabling them.

I am unhappy that something I use gets unilaterally removed by Firefox.

At the same time, Firefox makes no effort to remove truly hostile software like ICQSearch - I spent at least an hour removing ICQ from Firefox, and it suddenly comes back to life a week later.

One counterexample that keeps me busy:

In C++, one line of code such as 'a = smartPtr->b;'
can have a whole smart-pointer mess behind it.
That can be an endless pain to debug, when it goes wrong (think large destructor chains).

I would argue instead that Java and C#, with their garbage collection,
have a more trivial mapping of the same line: Just a plain assignment.

Just my five cents :-}

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