Aaron wrote:
Thanks for the link Aaron. That looks like a good one all right and I
will give it a go.
As for enabling all obsolete extensions at once vs, doing them one at
a time (as per the directions I included in my last reply)
Thank you for that John. After all those instructions you posted haven't
being posted here for a long time (like last week).
: if you do
the former, who can say what problems an otherwise functioning
extension might experience because another extension was enabled? How
then could you tell which extension was really causing the problem
without a lot more work?
I'm not say what you are arguing John. I'm not saying that there are no
benefits to enabling extensions one at the time. I'm saying extensions
like Nightly tool tester are pointless if their only function is to
enable all extensions since you can do that easily with about:config.
IMO, enabling blocked extensions one at a time is a more cautious
approach that is justified for this reason. On the other hand, your
"MR Tech Local Install" extension looks like something that will do
this anyway.
No it won't. It will allow you while installing an extension to ignore
the version check, which is close.
As far as I'm concerned though, the use of extensions and the
unnecessary problems everybody experiences with every update of
Firefox as a result, is simply an indication to me that the FF
developers need to rethink their decision to make the program so
"bare-bones".
Or they could go the maxthon way and dump every feature they could think
of in it.
But given that firefox users are used to getting whatever functionality
they want from hundreds of extensions doing things
that even maxthon cannot match with all it's plugins, I don't think
that's a good idea/
For instance, why did they decide not to make a "Print
Preview" button available?
Because they decided on the balance that despite one John Corliss's
perferences most people don't want or need it? People like me for example
would not want it. Or perhaps they didn't think about it at all and maybe
you will see it in the next version?
Why not simply take a poll and see what
extensions should be incorporated as standard features into FF?
They do take into account such things and what people want from time to
time. Look at how they enhanced tab browsing for example. I dare say by
now for the vast majority of people they no longer need any tab browsing
extension.
A problem with formals polls is that they probably are biased towards
hard-core users who are the only one voting anyway. So you probably end
up with more exotic features then necessary for the masses.
Besides Polls will not help, you are tactly assuming that all the polls
will go your way and features you want will win out. More likely they
won't, and you end up stuck with features you don't need, and still you
require extensions! :0)
The best that anyone can do is to provide browser + extension packs I
suspect. But that's hardly the job of the core developers.
They
could limit the number of such incorporations and set a limit to the
overall increase in the FF package size that doing so would result in.
I'm sure there are lots of point to either side of that argument, but
frankly I for one am sick and tired of dealing with extensions.
The simple point of the argument is, everyone wants something different.
You'll probably be surprised to know, that beyond certain basics, A "must
have" for you, most likely isn't so for me.
Thankfully the people who want the more complicated things are also the
ones most equipped to handle extensions anyway.
