A simple matter of…

You have managed through sheer stupidity and bloody mindedness to overtake even Gnome as my most hated Linux project.

I do _not_ like being [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/pages/experimentalAddons mollycoddled]. The [http://www.smop.co.uk/blog/index.php/2008/03/25/firefox-3-security-madness/ SSL fiasco] is still ongoing and whilst it’s now slightly easier to bypass, it’s still not good enough.

How many of your users do you think are going to _thank_ you for making them jump through completely unnecessary hoops? Since Mozilla seems to be incapable of thinking about their users I’d better give the answer here – none. By _all_ means, warn that it’s an experimental plugin, that’s useful information, but just do it once (hey, set a cookie to store the fact that I _never_ want to be asked again to confirm).

Update: Even better their captcha’s leave much to be desired (in fact, most captchas I’m starting to find really quite difficult).

Update2: And an hour to receive the email before I could download (yes, I use greylisting – who doesn’t?)

Update3: And the download fails with “invalid hash” – you have to edit-preferences and enable “3rd party cookies” for the download to work. I wonder how much more they can possibly break!