{"id":2183,"date":"2012-07-13T10:21:45","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T23:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/?p=2183"},"modified":"2012-07-13T10:21:45","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T23:21:45","slug":"firefox-update-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/2012\/07\/13\/firefox-update-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox update discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jono Xia (<em>n\u00e9<\/em> DiCarlo), a former Mozilla employee, recently garnered a great deal of attention for making some <a href=\"http:\/\/evilbrainjono.net\/blog?permalink=1094\">critical remarks<\/a> about Firefox&#8217;s update system.\u00a0 He has subsequently made two follow-up posts, which have garnered much less attention.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/evilbrainjono.net\/blog?permalink=1097\">first<\/a> of these concludes the following statement.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Firefox update mechanism is a lot better now, as is the add-on compatibility situation. If you&#8217;ve left Firefox, I hope you&#8217;ll consider giving it another try.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/evilbrainjono.net\/blog?permalink=1098\">second<\/a> of these includes this statement.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This has taught me something very sad and frustrating about how communication goes wrong on the internet. I posted something that was close to a lot of peoples&#8217; hot buttons. So it &#8220;went viral&#8221; and appeared to generate a lot of discussion. But most of the people &#8220;discussing&#8221; don&#8217;t even care what I said. They just wanted a thread to re-state their favorite rants about Firefox memory consumption or whatever. My post was just used as fodder for a pre-existing flame war. The point I wanted to talk about got lost in the noise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Both follow-up posts are worth reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jono Xia (n\u00e9 DiCarlo), a former Mozilla employee, recently garnered a great deal of attention for making some critical remarks about Firefox&#8217;s update system.\u00a0 He has subsequently made two follow-up posts, which have garnered much less attention. The first of these concludes the following statement. The Firefox update mechanism is a lot better now, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}