Re: Intent to remove: Fennec

2019-09-24 Thread mark . erikson
Haha :) I both appreciate the "request to get involved" aspect, as well as the subtle "STOP WHINING AND CONTRIBUTE SOMETHING USEFUL!" aspect... I've repeated that phrase more times than I can count myself :) I actually am a maintainer of the Redux JS state management lib, so A) that already su

Re: Intent to remove: Fennec

2019-09-24 Thread mark . erikson
Yeah, this kind of detail was really missing from the public statements :) I don't expect consumer-facing PR posts to go into nitty-gritty technical details, but it wasn't apparent that there was really anything more going on besides "nope, we're just going to rewrite it and move all the UI aro

Re: Intent to remove: Fennec

2019-09-24 Thread mark . erikson
Heh. No, I haven't tried Fenix, which I realize also makes it a bit harder to take my complaints seriously :) Having said that: - I am very happy with the current Fennec app and its UI, and don't understand why Mozilla feels a need to drop that product and create a new one from scratch. I kn

Re: Intent to remove: Fennec

2019-09-23 Thread mark . erikson
As a happy Fennec end user with no direct involvement with Mozilla, I'm decidedly unhappy about the direction Mozilla seems to be going here. I don't expect this complaint to have any effect on plans, but FYI. On Thursday, September 19, 2019 at 3:59:09 PM UTC-4, Kris Maglione wrote: > This soun