Yesterday I had an each in my finger and pushed the “update now” button for firefox. It was a stupid move! Apparently lately the word “update” means “get a shittier version of what you have and lose all your settings” I am not a native English speaking person, but I was firmly convinced that “update” means to get something BETTER. Apparently I was wrong. The first time I noticed the true meaning of “update, and upgrade” words with wordpress. It supposed to be newer and better, and it became bigger, slower and with much more bugs, functionality that most users never need, built in, just to make it more complicated. By the way, this happened with Microsoft Windows product too. When I was a newbie, to install a windows you needed a few things: the kit, the drivers and a little bit of knowledge. Windows first was on 10 1.44 mb disks, than it was on a cd now hell knows how many dvds you need for the full package. And of course it instals itself, blocks out even the experienced user from a bunch of settings, because “shut up you little geek, me, computer knows best”.
Anyway… today I realized that my Hungarian Dictionary, English dictionary and a whole lot of other “addons” (extensions, plugins WHATEVER) are disabled! Why? Have no idea. Not even the slightest idea. Because after installing I haven’t had any notice about not being compatible with Firefox 8.0. And strangely they ARE compatible. But I need an extra step, go and figure out why the heck it didn’t works, and enable it by hand, restart firefox and voila….
So I don’t get it.
Ok OK one thing I get: it is free. If I don’t like it, I can move on and find some other product to use. Yeah that is a good point.
After loosing all my bookmark, this is the second hit from Firefox. I will wait for the 3rd, and will say goodby to this browser.
