Congratulations, Mozilla
You have managed through sheer stupidity and bloody mindedness to overtake even Gnome as my most hated Linux project.
I do _not_ like being mollycoddled. The 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 http://www.smop.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/capta-300×63.png” alt=”" title=”captcha” width=”300″ height=”63″ class=”alignnone size-medium wp-image-241″ /> 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!
Posted: August 25th, 2008 under Linux Rants.
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