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I don't think this is accurate. The handwriting has been on the wall for years, and I've had no doubt that Mozilla would actually rip out XUL and leave millions of loyal users hanging. Mozilla has been on an anti-existing-user trajectory for years now. We have loudly protested. We have explained in excruciating detail how Firefox without XUL is not Firefox, and how a non-XUL Firefox will not meet our needs. The correct response from Mozilla would have been to make XUL work with e10s, regardless of whether it's easy or fun to do so. The actual response from Mozilla has been, "Nah, that would be too hard. Besides, you don't really want XUL, because it lets in the malware bogeyman. We'll just rip it out. Don't worry, you'll thank us later." This is heard as, "We don't care about you. We don't want your kind of users. We want those users, the ones who have switched to Chrome. You can sit on an old, outdated version until it won't load web sites anymore, and you can be constrained to the dustbin of history, where you belong." I've no doubt there are Mozillians who do not feel that way (e.g. the Pentadactyl developers who work at Mozilla and quietly update it to work with newer versions), but that is how the message from Mozilla comes across. Most importantly, that is the net effect of Mozilla's policy. |