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posted by martyb on Tuesday August 25 2020, @11:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-way-back dept.

Mozilla seems to be hell-bent on alienating users, as they did it again:

An update to the Android flavor of Firefox left fuming punters thinking a bad experimental build had been pushed to their smartphones. In fact, this was a deliberate software release.

A Reg reader yesterday alerted us to an August 20 version bump that was causing so many problems, our tipster thought it was a beta that had gone seriously awry. "To sum it up, on 20th of August, Firefox 79 was unexpectedly forced on a large batch of Firefox 68 Android users without any warning, way to opt out or roll back," our reader reported. "A lot got broken in the process: the user interface, tabs, navigation, add-ons."

Meanwhile, the Google Play store page for the completely free and open-source Firefox has a rash of one-star reviews echoing similar complaints: after the upgrade, little seemed to work as expected.

Among the complaints are a missing back button, frequent browser crashes, and extensions not working.

Sounds like a buggy release for sure. But:

Unfortunately for our source, and the other Firefox for Android users, this isn't a mistaken release or a broken beta build: it's the new version of Firefox for Android, and it's set to hit the UK today, August 25, and the US on the 27th.


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  • (Score: 1) by anubi on Thursday August 27 2020, @01:14AM

    by anubi (2828) on Thursday August 27 2020, @01:14AM (#1042472) Journal

    Yes, I know. I even give you an informative mod for that.

    I am trying out "smart cookie", which is a fork of "lightning" browser.

    It seems success causes companies to sow the seeds of their own annihilation by providing funds to support lavish lifestyles of the management classes devoted to marginalizing the not so important class of people who design and build the company's product.

    While it is nearly unheard of for an engineer to deliberately withold information from a manager, the converse is quite common within companies that have been awarded generous contracts that can support this level of inefficiency.

    The company soon soils their reputation by delivering crap to their customer.

    Now, it's just a matter of time before the company folds, and new employers get to choose amongst the flotsam of the failed company. Do they want the engineer who was terminated for being ranked as having a "bad attitude" when he balked against someone trying to use leadership skills to force an issue? Do they want to hire the leader who is above the physical laws that engineers confine themselves to?

    How important is it the company's products work?

    Answering these questions requires executive organizational skill. That's why they are paid so much.

    --
    "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]